Do you live a literary life?

I wish. I'm trying to go /fit/ and Yea Forums but I can't stop being Yea Forums and /pol/.

I live in a remote part of Kansas on the outskirts of the Flint Hills, a beautiful but desolate span of tallgrass prairie. I fly a crop duster, an old Grumman Ag Cat, albeit with a turbo-prop. Most of the guys go home in the off season, but I live in the house I inherited from my paternal grandpa. He lived in Wichita and it was his lodge from which he hunted upland game. I have installed an air conditioner but in the winter I have to heat with wood, I'm sitting by the stove now. I make enough money during the season that I don't really have to work in the winter, which is lucky, because there isn't any out here. I haven't been diagnosed with autism and if I was I would probably lose my job due to the medical certification requirements for pilots, but I suspect I have it, or something like it. I cannot connect with people, I like them, actually the fascinate me. I love writing and reading about interesting people, but they don't like me. The isolation is a challenge out here. I talk to the walls a lot, usually to characters from my novels or novels I plan to write. I don't think this is insane, but it feels that way. I take a lot of comfort reading people who also lived in relative isolation, I've been reading Wuthering Heights, the moors remind me of the hills here, and I've been reading Emily Brontë's poetry as well, off and on.

This is extremely literary user. Best of luck.

You sound like a nice guy user.

I have a friend with high-functioning autism. It takes a while to notice, people like him because he's kind and intelligent.

A lot of socializing is just confidence, if you assume people don't like you it enables that fantasy and reaction.

I’d say so, work as a freight train conductor, travel from town to town across Texas sleeping in hotels drinking in hotel bars fucking hotel sluts and women I meet in the towns I travel to. Oh and I read sometimes.

Future serial killer

>implying that's not extremely literary

living a literary life is literally impossible in the modern age. even if you had the financial security of inheritance etc you still wouldn't be able to live like Antoine Roquentin

a literary life can't be obtained purely by yourself. society, technology (or lack thereof), and economic structure need to allow for it as well.

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>I’m gay btw

Not really? But kind of? I'm a neet and wake up at 5pm, eat something, read some news, and then I read books for 8hrs pretty much throughout the night, taking little breaks in between. I have no other interests besides reading, maybe perhaps my journal writing but that's it. To me a literary life would be surrounding oneself with books and writers, having a book club, going to literature events etc. But I'm just stuck inside my house reading all night. It's not a bad life though.

What are their names

Jaylenn and Daquan and Billy.

take a break from Yea Forums, video games, and the news for a week or two. read some easy book(s), watch some movies you’ve always wanted to see, etc.

you may come to realize how little you actually care about them, or just how little those kinds of things benefit you (that’s what happened to me)

you’re probably the most authentic and based dude on this whole website

Thanks user, I’ll have a crack at it.

Yeah, just finished The Walking Dead: the last season.

If by literary you mean mildly shitty then yes

>The literary life is one of suffering
>yet to be human, is to suffer
>therefore we all live the literary life

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Nigga, I can’t even read. Also I live an asexual lifestyle.

i like to think so.
im in a PhD program, discuss research and papers from my fields with professors and fellow grad students, and we have endless discussions on random intellectual questions (mostly related to my field though but we also tackle other topics).
at home i read at night and on weekends.
i have 2 side chicks and no main chick, the sex is pretty great but different for each. one is rough and likes choking, the other one is more delicate and likes caressing me. best of both worlds.
other than that, im mostly a Yea Forumsfag and used to be part of college radio so i have a music critic spidey sense going on at all times. its that constant need to analyze and rate. father john misty has a verse on that, heh.
i also exercise twice a week and have a monthly pass to an art film theater.
i do camping in the summer to feed my anprim tendencies and shitpost here on uncle ted.

its a great life.

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I drink too much and I'm kind of a cunt, does that count?

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I live in Wyoming. It's not too exciting but I like having the same coffeeshop I got to to read, the same breakfast place my friend and I go to on Sundays, etc. You really get to know those places. I also like going out at night and looking at the stars because the sky is so clear. Hiking or wandering around the forest is nice too.

Nah, college gets in the way too much

THanks user

Research 'lifestyle marketing', and you'll understand how the literary lifestyle doesn't exist. If you read and you write, you live the literary lifestyle, but not in the same sense you mean it.

I live near there. Lets be buddies

I'm a 28 year old NEET (though admittedly trying to change that as I applied to somewhere I'd like to work) who reads and does his hobbies all day. I live off my parents but lead a pretty Spartan lifestyle in all honesty.

It's not bad. Is that the Yea Forums life?

same here. is this oc? looks cosy

based

I live in an old British city in my final year of university. The first two years I fucked about drinking and getting high whilst seeing a girl from a nearby, much bigger city. This year I'm actually studying, I'm spending more of my time listening to music this year since I feel pretty confident on what I know about film and literature but much less so with music. I'm also getting back into photography which I let slip away as a hobby a couple of years a go and working most nights. At the same time I am reading through North by Heaney over and over and looking into bits of the context albeit very slowly. I'm sick of my confidence in my ability to critique without the ability to properly create since whenever I'm negative I feel like I'm being a fraud but I just don't think I could capture any of the themes or subtleties I see in some of the greater things I've read, watched or listened to.

Define literary and define life

i work at a shit company i hate in a shit town i hate every weekday and dream about the weekend when i can get drunk as fuck and forget how shit my life is for a small time before repeating endlessly into nothing
i have no ambition left except to get to the end of each week and get drunk
also i read books in the evenings of monday to thursday

Full time freelance porn writer living in a soon to be sold house being forced on a three day road trip across the country in the seeking of free rent. Gonna be nearer to New York where I can hawk my self insert furry porn novel under the elevator pitch of Bugs Life meets Big Lebowski while continuing to work for porn games and growing a patreon or patreon derivative of my own.

>21 year old self-taught software engineer
>reasonable hours and very good pay for London, most freetime is spent drinking and reading
>live in St. James in London, hang out at various private members'/gentlemen's clubs during the evenings for dinner and for their quiet and comforting atmosphere (pic related)
>becoming a member of a very old private members' library in London with an enormous collection of books in original editions
>generally appreciating the last remaining fragments of old england as they slowly erode to new money coming in from the East
>weekends are spent getting shitfaced in shitty high-end nightclubs with the worst kind of people (degenerates and thots), reading philosophy, and programming/researching

Only thing missing right now is a literary qt, but I'm afraid most of them are likely at university and I find it difficult to meet those circles due to my unusual circumstances (self-taught software engineer with no connections to university).

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cont.

>looking into becoming a Patron at the Royal Academy of Arts to at least contribute some of my money to something else than degenerate partying
>looking into acquiring a pied-à-terre in Paris (only two hours away) because parisian qts are possibly the best kind of women in the world

Gay

Very well written desu

Godspeed, user.

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In what way. I don’t see it?

I live in Yorkshire and my favourite novel is Wuthering Heights. It's interesting to ruminate over your experiences since I often think of America in a similar fashion.
I've had my OCD diagnosed and been suspected for some kind of social disorder. It doesn't make much difference whether you have it consolidated or not.
After a considerable amount of time, I take pleasure in my lonesome and walk at night in this middletown, not doing so much but occasionally stand in wonder at the buildings and seeing what people do inside their homes and such a time. It's something of which I'm aware that others have conceded life for art and are reaping it elsewhere. It never occured to me, until now and a few times prior, that people might romanticise my lifestyle and surroundings. Life is a strange thing indeed.
My heart goes out to you friend.
What you describe is lovely.

>I wish I could go on night walks and drink cheap beer/wine on the streets
tfw. place i live now everything closes at 11 pm and everything is suburban sprawl. So much for "city". supposedly midsize city, my left nut. Wish I lived in tokyo or seoul where you can still do that. america blows ass.

Move to Asia you weeb

Wish I could
>tokyo/seoul
>bars open until 3am
>almost zero crime
>safe to barhop
>everything is walkable
>murrrrka
>shit closes at 11 pm because puritans
>niggers and hobos everywhere, crime everywhere
>nothing is walkable, you'll be hit and killed by a car
>arrested and have jaw broken by a cop for "public intoxication" if you look at him wrong
We live in a third world shithole and we're all in denial about it. Even russia is surpassing us at this point.

Make a heaven of your home heathen.

also your position on the Global Peace Index is ridiculously high. UK is 56. USA is like 121 something. Many many African countries are supposedly safer.

Minus the shitposting, this could be a Lydia Davis story - pretty literary desu

Thank you.

god i wish i was you

elaborate on that? Why? His life sounds like a well of depression.

he doesn't have to work a job he hates. he gets to sit at home and read and write. that is all i have ever wanted in this world. plus he gets to fly a crop duster. i work a standard 9-5 i go to work everyday just standard construction work. it is monotous, painful, there is no opportunity for self-actualization of any kind, i am exhausted all the time and everyone on the job hates me. i am going to kill myself in about 5-10 years when my mom days because she told me she would never forgive me if i killed myself, make her final days miserable and make her know she had failed in life. none of those things will happen when i am dead.

>if only I had HIS life I would be happy
No you wouldn't. If you had his life you'd still want to kill yourself because your problem is an undisciplined inner life. You want your pearls to be delivered to you on a platter because you're too unmanly to dive for them yourself. In 5-10 years, if you turn your life around, you'll be grateful for every blister and ache you suffered in your toils. You'll want to kiss every callous brute you ever worked with. You'll tell every young man you meet to forget his ambition and move concrete under the hot sun.

i just want to have more time to read nigga damn. i am thinking about becoming a librarian. also is there a /lit discord i would like some friends to talk to about books and literature

>I'm sick of my confidence in my ability to critique without the ability to properly create since whenever I'm negative I feel like I'm being a fraud but I just don't think I could capture any of the themes or subtleties I see in some of the greater things I've read, watched or listened to.

Very same boat as you. I figured I'd change that and actually decide to put all my energy into making one good attempt at each craft. Art, Music, (vidya game), literature.

If you want to talk, post a throw away email.

this is what keeps me coming back

Somebody please fucking explain why this board is so enamored with this?

it is a cool interesting life that is enviable, pitable and strange.

Very beautiful very well written. Keep living user

Ofcourse they are
You didn't even need to clarify

Just got a job at a pool bar so this will soon change.
>wake up
>make strong coffee and eat breakfast
>play piano for a few hours
>go to my library, which has a balcony where I read and occasionally glance at the city nearby.
>roll my own cigarettes or smoke lucky strikes
>drink cheap beer or whiskey in the evenings, occasionally going for walks near the river
>play retro games and rpgs at night and occasionally read philosophy or write.

Much of this will change when I start working and I will probably start hitting the bars again once I have money

Dwantarius, Brayden Klebold and Queerie Sprinkle (raising xer without privilege)

Have you listened to this yet? It's extremely patrician. Recorded at the parsonage using Emily's own piano.

open.spotify.com/album/5WBWlemdLZcERKWp1vtAWj

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Half of my bed is buried under new books, not all of them read. I sleep on the other half.

It is not literary lifestyle, it's not being able to deal with cleaning up and organizing.

10/10 holy shit

>a 21 year old programmer with no qualifications has enough post-tax income in bongistan of all places to live in london and spend on gentleman's clubs

living the dream
i saved up some money and this summer i'll spend two months somewhere in the balkans, probably skopje or sarajevo, and live a similar life

>wake up at 5 am
>coffee and Yea Forums till 6.30
>breakfast
>7-12 reading
>dinner
>Yea Forums
>fap fap fap
>shower
>14.30 - 18.30 - reading
>Yea Forums till 20.00
>some meditation and then sleep

this is my monday to friday schedule. There is more Yea Forums and fap in the weekends.

>do you live a literary life?

i don't know, you tell me

I could never not live in a city. (Germany here btw.)
I'm a physicist and earn more than twice as much as I need, i.e. I don't really know how capitalism functions in honest, but I sort of doubt that you couldn't just go somewhere else if isolation is so hard on you.

I know that "learn to code" became a meme recently, but I don't quite get it because it's actually true. Anybody can learn python in a few months (say 6 months at worst) and get some job doing it. At least here.

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What can I buy to lead a literary lifestyle? Do you guys have any recommendations for literary lifestyle pens? I’d especially like if they have specialized nibs and inks that I have to buy separately at great expense. I’m also thinking of getting a Moleskin notebook, but I’m afraid that’s a bit trotted out. Please issue any recommendations for cutting-edge notation technology that the hipsters haven’t ruined yet. I’m also interested in buying a handgun, something small and compact, maybe a classy 9M so that when my on-brand off-brand notebook and pen combination ($69.98, no tax!) inevitably makes me wealthy and famous, I can preserve the sanctity of my creations and the products they were written with by deepthroating my handgun and shooting myself in the face!

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>What can I buy to lead a literary lifestyle?
Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze would be a good start
4u

Is this true, I've been flirting with the idea?

well i have an old pelican with a gold nib i got from poland