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>>24967122>write your thoughtsjust bought this Louise Gluck book and I’m getting my moneys worth
I laugh at all of your pathetic blog posts and retarded self-pitying
>>24967124:DYou're enjoying it? Happy to hear, anon. I just finished reading it myself and started on her most acclaimed work, The Wild Iris. I enjoy Gluck's poetry though I admit I more often than not don't get what she's getting at, but I always enjoy the music, imagery, and ideas of her poetry, and the ones I do understand I almost certainly love.pic: favorite poem from Meadowlands
>>24967125so we all get something out of these threads then -- cathartic release not only for the posters but the spectators as well. how Aristotelian!
>>24967122I am not looking forward to Christmas and having to listen to my family's inane prattle about mundane nothingness. I just want to be aloneeeeeeeeeeeAlso I hate wrapping presents and I havent done that yet. Probably why I'm so irked right now
referencing homer can't cover it up that that poem sucks
>>24967138i'm spending christmas alone and all my coworkers are sad for me lol but rly i'd rather be alone, i could take a bus for three hours to see family, but fuck that i'm just gonna chill and watch movies or whatever, maybe get some indian food or sth.
>>24967131tfw I try make a sideways dig at this guy for posting pages from this same poetry book twice a day for the last week and I phrased it a bit too sideways
>>24967152:(I'm pretty sure I hadn't posted the OP one before. I'm done with the book now so I won't be posting anymore from it, I promise. Anything good I come across in her The Wild Iris though is fair game haha
>>24967149LuckyyyyyyyyyyyyDont get indian food tho. No offense to their culture and all but yknow...
>>24967122I think I've come to terms with the fact I am a genuinely rotten individual. I am selfish, neglect the ones I love and string them along, and no matter how much I try to be better I relapse and do something horrible all over again. Guilt is eating away at me. I'm determined to be better, even though this time I have offcially driven away the one person I love most through my selfishness.
>>24967145yeah, well, suck this!*unzips dick*
>>24967164just change urself? I literally dont see the problem
>>24967163indian food is fire bro chicken makhni plus garlic naan hell yeah that reminds me i should get dosa this week too
>>24967169oh so u dont know.Awkward...
>>24967164The fact you feel guilt at all means you are not totally irredeemable, anon. Of course, sometimes that can be used by individuals like yourself as a way to avoid moral responsibility and self-improvement -- ex. "yeah I did bad things but I felt guilt about it so it's okay, so let's move on pls" -- but it's still a good first step.
>>24967122Slightly annoyed I will be stuck in sports goggles for the next two weeks until my new glasses are ready. Old glasses got broken during work because a box fell off the top shelf and hit my glasses just at the right angle to break the frame. Now I am back to my bad habit of just not wearing glasses whenever I can get away with it and using screens by leaning forward. The back pain reminds me of middle school.
>>24967168Circumstances that have arouse these past few years have led to my moral decline. I was never a saint beforehand, but these last few years have really sailed me down to depths of moral depravity. Thankfully, these circumstances will no longer be as presceint in the New Year, which I hope will give me the strength to be a better person.
>>24967164for me the problem is i'm just lazy af like i have an ok education and decent tech skills so ppl (including me) like to believe i could turn it around and do sth with my life, but my life is already half over and today instead of working on sth productive i'm just shit posting until 11am even tho i got up at 7am. someone who actually will do sth with their life would have been grinding all morning. i need to link up with ppl that are ok with lazy bums, flyover country seems to be full of ppl who like work at autozone or something, but in the city everyone has to have some fabulous career and shit.
>>24967176bruh get some back up contact lenses, just order them and get it like second day delivered or whatever
Darius the King proclaims: By the favor of Ahuramazda, I am the type who is pleased by what is right. I am not pleased by what is wrong. (DNb §2)
>>24967122Merry Christmas. Have one of my favorite passages from my favorite book.
>>24967177>Circumstances that have arouse these past few years have led to my moral decline.Most moral dilemmas come from a lack of will, a lack of will comes from bad habits.Bad habits come from bad environments/circumstances So I'm sure, as you say, you will see improvement once you remove yourself from that polluting milieu that encompasses you atm.However a strong motivation is sufficient to gather willpower for an act of morality however downtrodden you are, should the situation arise.I hope the new year will bring you more favorable winds, my fellow traveler.
>>24967195>I hope the new year will bring you more favorable winds, my fellow traveler.Thanks, anon. I hope so too.
>>24967192Hmm, seems like life-denying, ascetic nonsense. A coward dies a thousand deaths after all.
>>24967145Gluck works better when you read the poems first as a collection and see the varied phases and complicated emotions she brings to her metaphors (in those case a modern day divorce juxtaposed with The Odyssey, bringing an epic dimension to something otherwise mundane though profound to the people experiencing it). On their own, especially for the first time, they can be kind of embarrassing.
>>24967122The jew is the by-product of western , Phoenician and ancient Egyptian philosophy, or metaphysics, and Medieval European philosophy is largely what’s wrong with our (as in western) contemporary late-stage civilization— decadence. The jew is a banal and passive animal who adapts to its surroundings through dreams, myths, instinctual excessive associative thinking , isolation, imagination and notions conceived by its overlords— the superior tribes of Europe.
there’s a tiny, quiet, very plain looking indian girl on my uni course. i’d never look at her twice. but one day i saw her handwriting, and it was the most beautiful i’ve ever seen. gentle and calm without any sort of fuss. and ever since i’ve looked at her different.
>>24967259differently
>>24967262it’s perfectly idiomatic.
Another year without love
>>24967262differently also changes the meaning of the sentence.
>>24967278it changes it to correct grammar if that's what you mean. you looked at her different? what's her different?
>>24967286differently makes it about how the looking happens. different is modifying the stance towards her.
My time management and organization skills are bad enough, that I've had to repeat a grade two times. I'm 20 and still in highschool. People are surprised when I tell them this because I "don't look stupid enough for that". I am a dysfunctional person. Last week, I went to the last part of my ADHD diagnosis process and they said that I'll get the results at the beginning of january.There are two options for me. The better one is, that I do have ADHD, and all my problems have a clear cause. I already have diagnosed autism, so it would pair up nicely. I could get a prescription for ritalin or something similar and finally feel like a normal productive person.The worse variant is, that I don't have ADHD and that all my problems are caused by low willpower and bad organization skills. In that case, I am doomed, as I have been trying to improve myself in these aspects since elementary school, and I haven't really made much progress, so I doubt I will now. Or maybe my brain will grow up, idk.
>>24967308just out of curiosity, what sort of stuff do you post about on /lit/?
>>24967308>low willpower and bad organization skillsadhd is just a socially acceptable cover for being a fuck up with high impulsiveness and bad organizational skills. why don't u just take ur ged and get tf out of there? it's so easy u won't have to study.
>>24967313I don't post much and I don't really make threads often. When I see a topic I can contribute to, I try to write a semi-intelligent comment, sharing my opinion and all. Not that exciting, I don't argue or shitpost or anything. Nothing as interesting as you would expect from an autist that failed a grade two times lol
>>24967308Hey I have adhd too, the struggle is real, good luck!
>>24967316I'm not American, so GED is not a thing here. Besides, even out of school, I'll have to get a job and deal with paperwork and such, which will probably be an even bigger challenge. I do hope everything will work out in the end, somehow......
It’s almost Christmas and I miss you.
>>24967322Ah, thank you! I'm not actually sure I have it yet, but my inability to actually do things does seem to match up with the symptoms. The frustrating thing about these kinds of problems is, that everyone has them to an extent, so you feel like you can't complain even when it's ruining your life lol
>>24967320yeah lol i was trying to sus if you were arguing here about translations of homer or something
>>24967330and we’ll have halloween on christmas
>>24967203Nah man the opposite. It's a tree telling a carpenter to fuck off because he doesn't know shit about trees. The next section is about a man who seems useless, but in his uselessness he doesn't have to fight wars, he gets extra resources, he makes good money as an oracle. It's about Wu Wei, or the usefulness of uselessness. No cowardice at all.
>>24967337and wish this night will never end
>>24967308>The worse variant is, that I don't have ADHD and that all my problems are caused by low willpower and bad organization skills. This scenario is better. You can find ways to become more disciplined, organized, logical and productive. Challenging yourself is great. I couldn’t write a better post because I’m on the phone.
>>24967330post theme:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ckWZ73OtXU
>>24967259All pajeetas crave the bwc
Someone was telling me about (older) ballistic missiles and apparently they knew where they were by checking known star positions. They really used stellar navigation, which I found funny. Like ancient sailors three millennia earlier, steering by the stars.
>>24967355best i can give her is the mwc and that’s on a good day.
>>24967185I don't like poking myself in the eye. Also contacts + allergies = chronic red inflamed eyes. So I highly prefer glasses or nothing at all. The wait is long, but they are covered by my eye care insurance so out of pocket cost is like $4. Cheap and good, but not fast.
>>24967394try sungazing
>>24967358they used inertial navigation primarily with (some of them using) celestial navigation as a secondary system for corrections
>>24967131Nobody enjoys it. Stop infecting the world with this evil filth.
>>24967397I will get right on that after sunning my balls and mooning my butt.
Goddamn it. I tried writing poetry; it sucked. Then I wrote stupid prose and smashed it with a hammer into the shape of a poem. And people liked it.Fuck.
>>24967400Trust me I know I got trapped into a conversation with the eccentric older guy at work.
>>24967408they say they with poetry you use your nose. like with buying fish. bad fish smells bad, fake fish smells like nothing at all.
>>24967416But I spent all this timewritinga postmodern hell bookof fractal bullshit when all I needed to dowas stop giving a shitand slap my cock on the enter keylike the incorporeal ghost of Christmas fuck.Goddamn.Milton lamentsmy contemptible existence.
>>24967408>And people liked it.Writing awful poetry is one thing. Lying is anotherDont be a liar!!! >:/
it’s funny how divorce has been around for how long? 500 years? and it’s still weird for us. you can’t write ‘mum & dad’ on your dad’s xmas card, you write ‘dad & laura’.
>>24967435what i mean is at first you wrote bad poetry. then you wrote artificial poetry.
>>24967441They like it.They really do. It's like I woke up,put the left legof my pantson my right leg,tripped down the stairs,half panted,shattered my teethof the banister,then accidentally won a million dollarsfrom a stranger at the door.Sure, whatever,wooo I can do a thing,but it's a little holloweven if the veneer will pay for itself.>>24967448Teach me to be real senpai. I can prose, poetry elludes me almost completely. I was just bummed out after the enter fiasco and getting feedback that people liked it way better than anything I actually tried.
my coke dealer rang me out the blue and i answered ‘andy andy andy. very important. i need to see you later.’ and he promptly told me his wife died suddenly this morning and he doesn’t know what to do.
>>24967456Amazing.
>>24967456Are you guys friends outside of buying coke from him?Like how well do you know this guy?
>>24967456> coke dealer> his wife died suddenly
>>24967460very well, but i get the impression he has a lot of close friends.
>>24967480Hmmm. Maybe you just have a face that's trust worthy. Most drug dealers have no one in their lives. What kitchen appliances do you resonate with?
>>24967503none. he’s not just a regular shotter, if i’m being honest he’s probably one of life’s special people. sees straight. has a lot of stories.
>>24967125I laughing at your attempt sense of superiority ahahahahahahahahahahaha look i cant stop laughing hahahahahahahahahah I'm so much better than you hahahahahahahahahaha
>>24967192Merry Christmas, thanks for sharing
I will die a thousands deaths
>>24967510Yeah and your no nonsense answer is exactly why he told you; you know what needs to be done and you'll take it seriously.I'm a toaster. I bring joy almost daily, transmuting the ordinary into the extraordinary. If you put me in the wrong setting, like the bathroom, I am an omen of death. If you use the wrong implement by accident you'll be electrocuted. I could also burn down your house if left unattended.You strike me as a dish rack. Firm, resolute, under appreciated, and eternal. Last one left standing once a mess is cleaned and the first one there before it begins. You don't grumble, you don't embellish, and you don't need thanks. Go be his dishrack anon, but remember a dishrack isn't a blender or a dishwasher; you get the caked on grime and awkward pots.
>>24967442It feels weird because it's because its wrong
>>24967442Don't get married, you'll never have to get divorced. If my parents ever divorced and remarried I literally would only send cards to my Dad and Mom and only agree to see them without their new people
>>24967537i gave your question some real thought as well. not a knife (though i’d describe certain girls in my life this way), definitely not a fork or spoon. not a can opener or blender. if i could be a dish rack i would. i’m clearly not taking it very seriously if i’m talking about it here. or if i am it’s a very un-dish-rack-type of serious.
>>24967442Jokes on you, my parents got theirs annulled
>>24967570You are taking it dishrack type serious. He gets it, dishes mold, they become clean, they sit and fester, they linger on him for days. He doesn't condemn, but always judges. The dish rack is diagnostic; clean things go on him, dirty things never do. The dish rack is a sardonic character, aware he's plastic, aware he's silly, but inoffensive in most ways, though he has a secret cache of mold.At least you aren't a godforsaken spatula; clogger of drawers, flipper of eggs, ruiner of dreams, but also the star of the show. Fuck spatulas.
>>24967597>Not using a fish slice on your eggs>Considering dish racks and spoons to be appliancesThis is a female only hobby board, please leave
>>24967609A fish slice to flip eggs? What in the unholy fuck is that?
>>24967597know what? i think im the pyrex measuring cup. but not in the obvious way.
>>24967616
>>24967609fish slice is just what we call the spatula in uk. same thing.
>>24967568i’m probably a pretty bad son but i don’t think i could ever be this snotty and awful of a child.
>>24967643>He's going to use an offset spatula to flip the eggs>He's not even taking the out of a turner spatulaWe're going to have to ban you from grills too
>>24967653i don’t cook.
>>24967656Or read
>>24967660
>>24967664Take two hen lobsters
>>24967643>>24967634Fair, that was the exact spatula I imagined.>>24967653Oh look at you; fancy and shit. I can use a butter knife and a fork with greater dexterity than you can with your granular spatula taxonomy.
>>24967669It's unlikely to be a butter knife if it's serrated, just saying.
>>24967668https://youtu.be/sO6EE1xTXmw?si=bjKJ95bIpOdFkvOi
>>24967675https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plh_uPxzIns
>>24967685……. i don’t get it
>>24967673This mysterious appliance you crazed logician.
>>24967705Mapp and Lucia forms a series of books by EF Benson about two socially pretentious women who compete over a summer holiday to out the other as pretentious, with hilarious results. Lucia is famous for her Lobster a la Rhisholme, a recipe Mapp tries to steal, the audience only sees the opening line: Take two hen lobsters. That's a clip from the Geraldine McEwan as Lucia adaptation with Nigel Hawthorne, who was playing Sir Humphrey Appleby around the same time as he was playing Georgie in that clip there's a new TV version too, but trying to prove Lucia doesn't speak Italian is a running theme in all them
>>24967720That's a dinner knife, and it's facing the wrong way.
>>24967722are you american? why are you reading this lame beverly nichols-esque brit lit
>>24967730I'm only American through consular shenanigans, I was born in England
Daily reminder Americans transfer their fork
>>24967724It can be flipped. It is a knife after all. And I use them for breakfast all the time, sorry to tell you.
>>24967744No, that's aggressing against your neighbour. It's very rude.
>>24967733so yes
>>24967756Yeah, it's one of my weaker passports apart from not getting ass raped going to the USSeriously though EF Benson is hilarious. Not to be confused with RH Benson, his relative, who is papally approved sci fi predicting world wars starting dates
>>24967766yeah but yanks don’t really get our humour though
merry christman, /lit/I've never had sex
>>24967784Yeah but you don't get Nigel Hawthorne's humour so...
>>24967786Neither did Mary, watch yourself out there
>>24967786Don't feel bad. My wife's brother has never been hugged, let alone kissed. He behaves like an awkward pangolin. At 32 he recently has forsaken all women for his religion, which is no longer noble, but a quiet admission of perpetual virginity and defeat.
I miss the days when i was a kid thinking people on 4chan were larger than life mysterious people when in reality everybody here is a blabbering retard
>>24967803May be a blabbering retard but I am mysterious. No one knows who I am. In fact I don't exist anywhere else on the internet at all. If you tried to find me it'd be impossible.
>>24967809Same but more drooling
Is the new captcha basically an IQ test? I've seen people talking about having trouble solving it, but I can solve them just fine, it's not even hard. I'm a little annoyed that it takes a few more precious seconds than the old, type-out captchas, but I find them relatively straightforward despite that.
>>24967811Tell me about yourself. I'm a paradoxically professional moderately charming auteur with an office job who is an unhinged guro in my personal life.
>>24967822nah, they're extremely easy and even more comfy than the last ones. Though I have to admit, I spent some time on these fucking boxes because I didn't read the instructions. I've got so used to skipping the first info and just jumped to 'tests'. I hope 4chin devs will actually make them harder though
>>24967822It's no more of an iq test than CAPTCHA. Overlords just granted us a slightly more diverse set of exercises to combat brainrot.
>>24967851I just joined the internet when everyone was secretly a 45y/o Filipino male like you
i wish i had access to benzodiazepines. i wouldnt become an addict, but what makes it any different from alcohol? people dont look down on someone for having a few drinks per week so whats the problem when using a few pills per week or whenever they come in crutch? i have very mental anxiety and not physical which is quite literally what these meds were made for. im not benefiting from big pharma whatsoever
>>24967855>>24967856Then why do people keep bitching about them? Are those people just thirdies?
>>24967794yep no one’s seen yes minister here…..
>>24967822>>24967865It's annoying as fuck. I shouldn't have to click through 3 or 4 rounds of "find the object that only occurs once" just to make a post.
>>24967860Oh dang, not Filipino, Italian, but still an ungodly mutt of some sort. Good call.
>>24967867bby Georgie was brand new to you, and the book came first with that one
>>24967872he was the main star
I finally found a post which is similar to my style.
>>24967880Georgie's in it more than Mapp, and he's an offshoot of the earlier Georgie, from before the Lucia series, when Benson wrote The Freaks of Mayfair
>>24967442you should call your parents by their first name anyway.
>>24967865People resist change, i was bellyaching about them too for the first day, and it didn't help that the rollout was botched and they didn't even fucking work for the first day or two. Now i agree with >>24967855they are as easy and comfy as ever, but i hope they will be made harder and the barrier for entry for posting is raised
>>24967456he probably wants you to help him get rid of the body.
I do miss the ex that was twice my age.Good times.Still, life must be going well as I'm not getting the usual existential dread I usually get this time of year.Mum says I have a lot to be proud of but I really couldn't give a shit about feeling proud, I'd rather feel relaxed.Feels good not to self hate and loathe.>>24967503I'd say I'm a blender>>24967867Only person that I know who has mentioned this before was my godfather. If he wasn't such a nutjob (arguing with children on facebook, tried to blackmail my dad for not paying him in bitcoin, general schizo nature) I would get along with him. It was nice to visit him in Japan.
>>24967901Are you AJ from the Sorpranos
