Do you feel that you are a more mindful reader now than a couple years back? Especially those of you who are already a few years into adulthood.
I do wonder how much of it would be, well, bias.
I definitely have learned how to read better. in my late teens and early 20s I tended to consume everything within a novel without discrimination, didn't have a filter for what was important vs what was not important to understanding the text.
>>7415078
that pic
>>7415078
Who be that erection confection yonder?
who is this squench wench?
>>7415108
>>7415121
>>7415126
>>7415108
ugly old hag
>he makes his thread with a picture of an attractive woman
I always fails miserably.
>>7415526
Shitposting / semendemonposting can always help keep a thread afloat?
>>7415078
I haven't been reading lit and phil that long desu senpai
Yes, and in two years time I'll see myself now as a bad reader. In four years time I'll see myself as a bad reader two years previous, and so on.
It's the same with everything. I have nothing but hate for any version of myself which is not my current, present version.
>>7416661
>past-self-loathing
>>7416661
>>7416699
Guys! this is not what we meant by "getting past selfloathing"!
bumping with nicest ass I've seen all year
>>7416929
it's tiny. you got no taste you probably read murakami you fuck
>>7415078
>armpit completely obscured by hair
Disappointing
>>7416929
>"nicest ass"
>it's a small ass in tight clothing
idiot
>>7416929
>no ass at all
Are you irish?
>>7415078
>mindful
new age
>>7415078
>>7416656
>go to lit for some good laffs
>come back with material for fapfolder
>>7416982
It's an actual word.
>>7415078
Without a doubt. When I re-read books that I read when I was 16, I feel like I get so much more out of them.
>>7416981
Is this some reverse "irishmen are niggers" joke?
>>7417805
There is a current meme/joke/presupposition circulating in 4chan that Irish guys don't like 'too much ass', the flatter the better.
>>7415078
No, it's worse. At some point your memory gets worse.
I've read too much at this point. A lot of it blends together. A lot of it I could only speak about if you reminded me of it somehow. And I would have to reread some.
Younger me would not need to reread anything. He memorized everything.
I'm still reading. It's less enjoyable now. I see less the story and more the themes, what the author is expressing by writing a scene or arc, and often the underlying expression disgusts me. Because it's childish or doesn't really make sense logically, and is clearly an emotional confusion for them being expressed in their writing.
It can make the character, or their actions ring hollow, or completely shatter. Of course most of this is male power fantasy. If you read too much of this, you understand how false and empty it is. It's not fun or enjoyable anymore.
As time goes on you read more and realize it's not just male, but human power fantasy, including women. And all of it is hollow. The fantasy of the individual.
I could go on for hours, I'm sure. It doesn't matter.
Point is the magic of reading vanishes as you get older and read more. To the point where I spend more time imagining a better writing then "experiencing" what people have actually written.
>>7417865
or you're just projecting your own jaded internal world onto books you sad motherfucker
>>7417865
>A lot of it blends together. A lot of it I could only speak about if you reminded me of it somehow. And I would have to reread some.
That's nothing to do with books, that's Grade A depression. Get help you retard, stop trying to make your mental illness part of your edgy identity.
Read non-fiction then faggets
>>7417812
>current
It's as old as fuck
Definitely. I didn't get into reading until I was 15. When I was 14 i had to read for school so I picked out whatever I needed to pass. One day my friend told me how the twilight series got her reading level up a ton (yes I know, but this was during the hype of it all and I was impressionable) so I decided fuck it I need my reading level up a lot plus the points it'll come with. After that I started reading those stupid coming of age books to satisfy my teen angst. Fast forward 3 years later I'm 18 and I only read if it's literature. I've definitely grown and I'm glad I'm a reader.
>>7415078
>reverse image search
>only results lead back to this thread
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For sure, I pick up way more now than ever before.
A good example would be my reading of Kafka, the first time I read the Trial a few years ago just after getting into reading I hated it, however in my most recent reading I was absolutely blown away by it, what with the layered meaning of just about fucking everything. Kafka could do a whole lot with very fucking little.
>>7415078
hnng
>>7417865
overindulging in any hobby proves to you more than any literature ever can that life is boring and pointless
in the end no matter how much you hide from it that realization comes too late as your obsessive behaviour has led you to become increasingly isolated and has rendered you a non-functioning human being
>>7419834
You must use a really shitty reverse search engine then.
>>7420171
Stop pretending to be a dead person
>>7419377
>2012
>old as fuck
I think I need to sit down
>>7417812
Irish lad, can confirm.
If you prefer ass over tits, you have been negroified by the Zionist media.
>>7420419
>negroified
>Zionist media
>>7420419
I prefer not to be attracted to partial objects.
>>7420423
Problem?
>>7420419
If you prefer a woman with no hips, no ass, and a mustache, maybe you should rethink your manhood.
>>7420434
>>>/r/Nicki_Minaj
>tfw actually being patrician
>tfw getting nearly every reference
>tfw making deep powerful connections between everything you read and other important things you already read
>tfw sensing the subterranean currents of the western tradition flowing into and with one another
>tfw reading now feels like being vegeta and training to surpass kakarot
>tfw no longer feels like wandering around being vaguely interested in things, but like you have discovered the hidden path and are finally on your way
>tfw infinitely rewarding feeling of finding other people on the same path once in a blue moon
>tfw weaving between all the careerists and phonies to get to them
>tfw feels like the beginning of an adventure and the discovery of your own destiny
>tfw it only took a decade of being a weirdo
>tfw still have decades and decades left and can only imagine what heights are out there to explore
>>7420471
Kill yourself
>>7420471
>>7420919
brutal
If by mindful you mean more knowledgeable about what the author is trying to do, then yes. And I haven't had humanities classes since the age of 16. I've only read one lit crit book as well.
Although I find stuff like this interesting, kind of, and I do feel bad if I go through a book and don't realise that the main character was Jesus metaphor all along or whatever, but I do not suddenly find borin books entertaining due to this.
For example I may read a crime novel (Perfidia by jamss ellroy) and notice that he uses short sentences during certain action sequences. There was this brutal one where the cops attack and arrest a guy who's being framed and the way it was written was meant to portray the fact that he cops had no moral hesitations in fucking him up. I notice that authors switch from maybe really describing stuff in detail to rushing through it to portray things in a certain light.
Also I'm reading the secret history now and I can see the tropes in it, probably intentional.
Also I find many scifi novels having really interesting concepts but boring prose. I still can't really explain why.
Can I decipher pomo 2deep4everyone stuff? No. Do I know why novels are so often filled with vacuous sounding quotes that go for wisdom ("You can tell everything about a book by the length of its publishers name")? No. I can't even tell whether this is the author's view, or if it's the character's view, or if it's a parody.
>>7416929
saw this ass while browsing at work but didn't have time to comment
now at home having a wank
thanks m8, glad i remembered
so happy the /lit/ fap thread is still up
back for another wank
>>7416929
No standards from the manchild
>>7423052
That ass is amazing you fucking faggot. Get killed.
>These three pictures
thanks /lit/, you just made my day
>>7416929
that's a good ass
>>7416929
Gob, what a polarising ass
>>7420471
and then tomorrow you die :)
>>7416929
Incredible ass desu senpai
>>7416929
confirmed low standards
>>7415526
>61 posts
>15 - drooling on OP's pic
> 9 - drooling on OP's topic
>22 - debate on some pop-up ass
>----------------------
>leftover shitpost: 15
depends on your definition of success, I guess
>>7415108
>>7416988
>>7426064
BASED ANON
>>7426064
- >>7415108 here, thanks based anon
>>7416929
Nice ass but nohips/10
