Any books that will change my outlook on lookism sort of topics?
I've been flirting with the absurd idea of using a mask for the past months, and this is where I want to draw the line.
Inb4 The Bible
Any books that will change my outlook on lookism sort of topics?
come on
Infinite Jest
>Of course. It's over since a long time, since the beginning. You will never represent, Raphael, an erotic dream of a young girl. You must take your part; such things are not for you. Anyway, it's already too late. The failure, Raphael, that you have known since your adolescence, the frustration that has been chasing you since the age of thirteen will leave in you an indelible trace. Even assuming that you can now have women - which, frankly, I do not think - it will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be orphaned by those teenage loves you have not known. In you, the wound is already painful; it will become more and more so. An atrocious bitterness, without remission, will eventually fill your heart. There will be no redemption or deliverance for you. This is it.
My Twisted World
>using a mask
literally?
In so far as the desire is true, yes. But it's a silly idea, I have to fix it on the psychologic realm.
I want one of those Roman calvary/parade masks so badly. There is only one that is cheap but it looks like unadulterated shit. The rest are crazy expensive
Not him, but I do that at home when I'm alone.
But I love halloween, costumes and decorations. It's not really deeper than that with me.
make up? if it's theatrical, it might be /li/ approved
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Phantom of the Opera
I've never read them btw
You're always already wearing a mask
“Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it’s time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
-- The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
This never ceases to be fucking brutal. Hurt me more, daddy!
>Any books that will change my outlook on lookism sort of topics?
The OKCupid blog. Women don't actually care that much about your looks in practice, they care about money and social status.
Look into Asylum, by William Seabrook. A memoir from a little-known travel writer of his time spent in an insane asylum to treat his raging alcoholism. Just finished it, and felt that it gave me some peace with the idea that most people assume they'll never be good enough, and cope in different ways.
They care about all three.
I know what you are talking about.
I pretend I caught cold and wear medical mask when I go to library. It makes me feel special and mysterious. It makes me want to do things (such as reporting faulty bulbs) to attract attention.
>It makes me feel special and mysterious.
Is this really how fringe outcasts think of themselves?
>I know what you are talking about
Most likely not
Watch Mr. Sardonicus.
It's literally you.
>In so far as the desire is true
based pretentious user