Would you say that this image describes you?
>>7370598
Haha, I saw that earlier too.
I don't arrange my shelves by emotion, make unwanted references in public and I don't care about Hogwarts. But I would often rather be reading than anything else, spend my excess money on books and become involved enough in what I read that I may be emotionally affected or eschew some sleep.
No, fuck off.
25% talking about books I haven't read
25% not finishing the books I've started
25% talking shit about books I haven't read
25% buying books and never reading them
10% spooks
Definitely 11% of my personality is making literary references nobody gets. This is because I make literary references to my own literature, which remains unpublished. When somebody does something outrageously stupid, I say, "Wow, you're really pulling a Gregory Berrycone there." I wait for somebody to ask who Gregory Berrycone is, and then explain that he is a minor character in my absurdist novella (untitled right now) about a man who wakes up one morning with a mysterious plastic knob on the back of his head.
Ha-ha Hogwarts, if you're expecting letters, hehe, you might just be, oh ho, I said you might just be...(drumroll lol) a bookworm! Lol, made my day!
50% mourning my life because i compare it to fictional characters' lives
45% thinking about what i'm going to read after i finish the 6 series i already have planned to read
5% actually reading
>>7370618
I'd read that.
>>7370626
Like if you agreed
>>7370598
>9% waiting for Hogwarts letter
>>7370598
>9% waiting for hogwarts letter
ADORKABLE!
>>7370712
That just made me so angry >:[
>>7370613
books are spooks
>>7370598
I'm 31% pure ideology and 70.6% spooks.
>>7370598
>8% mourning fictional characters
Nah, but I have wept uncontrollably over the premature death of centuries-past poets.
I know it's just some meme joke pic or whatever but the framing of this is incoherent. They didn't even choose "things these people do" or "things these people think" or "things these people have" as a framing device, but some sloppy melange of all three that still, for some unimaginable reason, must add up to 100%
>>7370802
Fact: Shakespeare is only regarded as the greatest English poet of all time because every one of the possible challengers died a premature death.Just kidding. That'd be a fun novel, though, where either Willy's ghost or some cult of Shakespeare assassinated all of those poets to secure his #1 spot
>>7370864
>premature death
what
>>7370598
The proportional areas on this diagram are not to scale and it triggers me.
"arranges bookshelves by emotion" is literally me
>>7370873
like Marlowe duh
who "died" in a "bar fight"
22% Would rather be on /lit/ than reading
4% Resting Blood Alcohol Level
8% Unread copies of Ulysses
25% Thinking I'm better than other people
10% Arrange's bookshelves by ~impressiveness~
8% Mourning loss of youth
11% Literary references I don't really understand myself
3% Forgot to kill myself again
9% Waiting for a qt in my English seminar to ask me to be her bf
>>7370885
It's impossible to die prematurely
>>7370618
A U T I S N
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Are you between the ages of 12-19? Fuck off please.
>>7370995
do you ever feel sad about having no friends or gf
stop beeing urself it doesnt work
>>7370598
>hogwarts letter
>>7370618
>>7370995
Like you can't ejaculate prematurely? Oh, wait.
>>7370613
Underrated roast.
60% /lit/ shitposting
30% anxiety
5% depression
2% fapping to an ex or hentai
1% thinking about reading
1% reading
>>7370598
>spending rent money on books
well this image obviously wasn't made by an adult because grown-ups know that spending rent money on anything but rent means your ass is either homeless or soontobe because your dumbass keeps pissing the landlord off
i'm mainly made up of bones, blood and guts
>>7370618
>>7370618
pls
>>7370618
>>7370618
lulz
>>7370618
You have autism.
>>7370802
I've wept uncontrollably over the death of Alexander the Greatafter reading the Persian Boy.
>>7370747
Should /lit/ be renamed /sbooks/?
>>7370993
>22% Would rather be on /lit/ than reading
>4% Resting Blood Alcohol Level
>8% Unread copies of Ulysses
25% Pretending I don't think I'm better than other people
10% Arrange's bookshelves ~barely~
>8% Mourning loss of youth
>11% Literary references I don't really understand myself
>3% Forgot to kill myself again
9% desperately longing to feel the joy of reading again
50% shitpotsting instead of reading
50% buying books and never reading them
Why are that figures hands black?
>>7370618
lmao this owns and anyone responding to it insulting you is getting an ass kicking from me
>>7371788
>9% desperately longing to feel the joy of reading again
just kill me
>>7371810
/sboogs/ **
fucking auto correct
>>7370618
Jesus
>>7370618
>a mysterious plastic knob on the back of his head.
>23% thinking I understand the world better >because of the books I read
>33% reading instead of human interaction
>28% judging people for what they (don't) read
>16%shitpostin on/lit
>>7371792
>50% buying books and never reading them
why would you buy a book and not read it?
>>7372021
good intentions
>>7372021
>AND HERE'S MY LIBRARY
>>7372021
It's an addiction
>>7372021
Buying books is more fun than reading them
>>7372062
How is an addiction appealing to anybody but yourself?
>>7372062
How is buying books appealing to anyone else?
Who would you be appealing to?
>>7372064
it's like you're seeking attention from others, that's how I see it.
one should be drooling over the content not the cover
>>7372073
you're an idiot.
>>7372075
not my first
>>7372062
Nobody ever gets to see them, it's just for me
I do buy with the intention of reading, and I do eventually read them, but I never stop buying...
>>7372021
I always dreamed about making a gigantic room beneath my apartment complex and in the room there will be many shelves with only the refined pieces of work from every culture and language. When I die, I'll be in that library trying to finish the last book, but I'll be dead and only a skeleton of me will remain. When my library is found, only a skeleton holding a book will be found. Trapped on the reading ride forever
>>7370598
80% thinkign bout book I'm reading
10% reading bout book I'm not reading
10% burning the hogwarts letters but they still keep coming
>>7371602
The remaining percent is autism I suppose?
>>7371053
Is there any logical reason why you would fucking say that post is underrated? Has anybody expressed any kind of dissatisfaction or criticism at all against it? Are you delusional? Are you reading replies that are nonexistant? Maybe you come from communities with voting systems, but there is literally no way that you could know what other people think of that post you just replied to here. Maybe it's psychological. Maybe it's your own post you're replying to, like a 12 year old fucktard liking his own facebook posts thinking his swelling autism is going unnoticed. Maybe your self esteem depends on you tricking yourself into thinking someone out there thinks your post is worth something. Or maybe you are just a retard, the worst kind of retard, the one who thinks he's smart, the one who thinks he's the only one to have gotten the joke, to have understood the post. Well, guess what, faggot, that post is under no definition underrated so why don't you do the world a favor and go check out what the bottom of your toilet smells like?
>>7372199
Underrated post.
>>7370618
I can get behind making references to Gregory Berrycone
>>7370618
You seem like a cool/autistic guy
>>7370598
That image wouldn't describe me at all. In fact my reading habits are very sloppy. I'll read one obtuse book over the period of a month, maybe just twenty pages, and spend two-three hours a day gestating, minorly obsessing over a message or theme and thinking it over; alongside mentally procrastinating by thinking up good prose.
>>7372199
Underrated post.
>>7370613
This
>>7372199
Underrated post desu.
>>7370598
>Waiting For Hogwarts Letter
No, I'm not a pleb.
>>7370864
Shakespeare killed DFW?!?!
>>7370598
Literally why are so many adults obsessed with Harry Potter without being ashamed? I LOVED Goosebumps books as a kid and I'm sure I'd still enjoy reading them, but why would you be proud your favorite book is a child's or YA book? Why do a disproportionate amount of women vs. men obsess over HP?
>100% of taking pictures with books
LOL SO TRUE Xdddhd
>>7370598
Replace hogwarts letter with tardis and that's me in a nutshell.
>>7370802
Same but with Mozart. He was well on his way to discovering everything. Kind of like Franz Liszt eventually did.
>>7371644
>not water
This is posing in its very purest form. The faggot who created this and the thousands of Tumblr users that reblog it are only excited by the idea of being a bookworm, not the books themselves. Cancer.
>>7372908
as being a bookworm dwelling in pages and pages with little to no exterior contact seems a healthy way to live.
>>7370598
half of this is fucking horrible
but the worst of all:
>books are better than people
this is awful! really disgusting. This is why we need more religion
>>7370618
post of the year
30% only enjoy reading when I'm supposed to be doing/reading something else
15% afraid to talk about literature with friends because they already think I'm an asshole
20% guilty of reading poetry for quotes
8% suspicious and resentful of anybody who claims to read a lot
7% talk in a high poetic voice with rolled r's whenever I'm alone
20% find Christian morals in books that dont have any
100% posturing
100% sinner
i always cry when i read the odyssey
>>7373005
how does everyone in Odysseus's house recognize him immediately EXCEPT his wife? Like he says hi im ur dad to his son, his nurse sees a scar on his foot, his dog just looks at him and knows, but his wife is the only one who needs proof
>>7373028
same reason that if a man says to you, "I'm your second uncle", you'll probably believe him, but if he says "I'm your long lost dad" you'll want proof.
>>7370598
I just read books as an excuse to drink alot of coffee.
>>7370618
>Definitely 11% of my personality is making literary references nobody gets. This is because I make literary references to my own literature, which remains unpublished.
Love when I accidentally reference something few to no one will get and they do that awkward chuckle and go "Yeah."
>>7370618
more pls
>>7373047
If someone walks up to me and says they're my second uncle I'm walking away because they're probably crazy, and if he says he's my long lost dad I'm walking away even faster. Furthermore Odysseus says "I'm your long lost dad" and his son doesn't ask for proof, which is the basis for your entire argument, making it null before you can even begin to qualify it.
You seemed to not understand my post. His son accepts him with no proof, additionally his dog and his nurse recognize him even when he's disguised. My question is how his wife who, by nature of being his wife will know him more intimately than presumably anyone else, is the only one who, after he's revealed himself and discarded all costumes and disguises and announced himself still does not recognize him.
>>7373028
>how does everyone in Odysseus's house recognize him immediately EXCEPT his wife?
Because the whole fucking point is that Odysseus is trying to HIDE his identity from Penelope so he can make sure that she's been faithful in his absence and is not going to fucking murder him like Clytemnestra did Agamemnon.
As for Penelope wanting proof, she's been trying to avoid suitors for ten fucking years, of course she's wary of being tricked. Plus Penelope is, like Odysseus, a very devious character like that. They make a good couple.
>>7370618
>>7370598
>Waiting for Hogwarts letter
AMIRITE FELLOW GEEKS???
>>7370613
toppest kek
>>7370618
>
>>7370618
you have a condition
33% pretending to actually read
33% escaping responsibilities through drugs
33% hate for postmodernism
1% tfw no gf
>>7370598
I would say this image is off-topic bullshit.
>>7370618
>Gregory Berrycone
stealing this
>>7372157
>10% reading bout book I'm not reading
fUCk
I have read countless essay collections about authors I haven't read
I have read I don't know how many essays about Dickens, but I haven't read Dickens. I've read whole books about Dante, but I've never read Dante. Etc. I read book reviews more often than I read books.
>>7375105
shes been spending her days with a horde of greek men and shes probably lost her ability to tell men apart
>>7370618
>Definitely 11% of my personality is making literary references nobody gets. This is because I make literary references to my own literature, which remains unpublished. When somebody does something outrageously stupid, I say, "Wow, you're really pulling a Gregory Berrycone there." I wait for somebody to ask who Gregory Berrycone is, and then explain that he is a minor character in my absurdist novella (untitled right now) about a man who wakes up one morning with a mysterious plastic knob on the back of his head.
Funniest thing I have read on /lit/ in a long time.
>>7370618
>This is because I make literary references to my own literature, which remains unpublished.
>"Wow, you're really pulling a Gregory Berrycone there."
gregory berrycone is the new /lit/ meme. Use him well he'll last a week.
>>7376021
You're the same dude that responded a hundred thousand times to your own post in read/expected/got, aren't you?
>>7370598
>waiting for hogwarts letters
Stop embarrassing yourself
>>7376024
idk about anyone else but I responded to his post only one time to say how great it was
I assume other people just thought it was funny
>>7370618
This reads like it was lifted straight out of TroperTales
>>7370598
30% playing video games
30% buying books and never reading them
30% downloading films and never watching them
10% drinking alcohol
100% being depressed
>>7370618
Since everyone else is quoting this post, can any of you enlightened literary types explain the significance of the plastic knob on the back of Gregory Berrycone's head? I'm certain that I'm missing a joke here.
>>7370613
this
>>7376314
>>7370618
>Gregory Berrycone
>>7376312
I think we are one and the same Anon
>>7370618
top laugh
>>7376314
no, gregory is a minor character. the protagonist has the knob.
>>7371008
Thanks for the rare Zizek
>>7370598
>Hogwarts letter
They're fine kids'/YA books but the way people cling to them strikes me as hopelessly infantile even compared to most self-proclaiming 'geek' types' clinging tendencies.
>>7371001
you spelled autism wrong
>>7376807
This. Read HP as a kid and fell in love with the series. Am now a grown patrician reading Joyce and Pynchon. Anyone actually interested in literature should be able to get past their YA launch pad.
>>7376763
post more rare Zizeks please
>>7370618
im actually in tears
>>7370618
>>7370598
I get bored talking to most people and I end up just trying to avoid conversation. I can't help talking about philosophy and art in general and I can see how they get tired of my irrelevant rants and me myself I can't stand discussing the stupid gossip everyone seems to enjoy, so why even bother?
Fortunately enough I do have a couple of friends from university quite like me so I don't really need more than that.
