How does one live the literary lifestyle?
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>>7804741
A few years ago it used to be flaneurism, absinthe, hashish and opiates, women, decadence and such but now the cool kids have moved on to exploring mysticism, asceticism, simplicity, celibacy and so on.
We're literally Huysmans, the board.
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>>7804741
Well, in truth, you have to actually live literature in order for it to be a lifestyle. It's not enough to just read some books, you have to become the books. Just today, I walked to the corner shop dressed as Macbeth; unfortunately, owing to the wide, rectangular shape of my costume, I couldn't fit through the door.
It's got to the point now that I have an elitist commentary running through my head at all times, which admittedly has had quite a negative impact on my love life--the other night, for example, I took a woman home from the bar, and while we were fucking, she asked me to be rude to her because it helped her to get off; I don't think that "Thick bitch, bet you haven't even read Proust" was quite what she had in mind.
>>7804757
"A few years ago"
You mean sixty years ago?
>>7804814
No, I'm talking about this board. Decadence is on the decline.
read old novels, have few friends, act superior when alone and cower when in real social situations, wear jumpers, get interested in coffee and tea for no reason, say things like 'pray tell' half ironically in conversation even though it doesn't feel quite right, buy lots of books and read no more than 25% of them but enjoy your 'to read shelf, read the blurb of the unreads on occasion and swell with excitement at all the things you can read even though you know you really won't, listen to any music so long as it's not quite mainstream and not very energetic, feel proud of yourself when you cry for no reason, be thin and able to cook slightly more than the average person, enjoy the idea of potentially enjoying gospel music but never act upon it, go for walks alone
