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2013-09-10 08:37 4102691 Anonymous (916152_29606e3371.jpg 464x352 39kB)
Can we talk about our local purveyors of literature? At my local used book store there is a guy at the register who I swear looks and acts exactly how I picture many of you (late 20s early 30s white dude, unshaven but not beardy). When I brought a copy of "Yeats major works" to the counter he flung his arms outward and did a sort of spin while reciting some yeats poem from memory. He went on to tell me all about poetry as I am a noob and I also got The Waste Land. He said he wants to be a teacher. Now I realize this kind of enthusiasm scares most ppl but I have nothing but the utmost respect for having the courage to be "that guy" (pic related) especially since I learned from him.

2 min later 4102696 Anonymous
You'd get higher quality (more serious) responses if you didn't refer to South Park. Just a tip.

3 min later 4102698 Anonymous
>>4102696 I don't see why it matters

7 min later 4102706 Anonymous
>>4102698 Then, you're not ready for literature.

8 min later 4102709 Anonymous
>>4102696 South Park is a great show. Americans don't get that though.

11 min later 4102713 Anonymous
I like the sound of that guy, OP. Better than the snotty Lit majors that seem to infest mine with all their lofty bullshit and even more dismal recommendations.

12 min later 4102716 Anonymous
>>4102713 Yeah I think I'll go talk to him again

14 min later 4102719 Anonymous
>>4102716 Ask him for a reading list then post it on here. I'll keep an eye out for it. Make it the 'book shop guy' recommendation thread or whatever.

16 min later 4102725 Anonymous
>>4102691 Go talk to him again. It sounds like he gets real joy out of his reading. Pay attention to why he does and see if you can perceive that too, and if you can't find something different to share with him.

36 min later 4102782 Anonymous
Ok I will see him again and I'll report back

1 hours later 4102995 Anonymous
Can I bump to hear stories of librarians and book store ppl?

2 hours later 4103018 Anonymous
>>4102782 Fuck, OP, where are you? Was it the White Cat bookstore? I'm worried it might have been me.

2 hours later 4103035 Anonymous
>>4103018 No but the guy I'm talking about has to be on here

2 hours later 4103044 Anonymous
I imagine that y'all are fat, frankly.

2 hours later 4103138 Anonymous
>>4103044 I'm underweight

2 hours later 4103155 Anonymous
>>4103044 I'm pretty /fit/ actually. Some Greek told me I have to be.

3 hours later 4103300 Anonymous
>>4103155 You mean your gay?

3 hours later 4103302 Anonymous
>>4103044 Seriously doubt that with /lit/ nerds.

3 hours later 4103310 Anonymous
>>4103044 underweight. used to be fit in an athletic sense (competitive swimming) but now I'm just a scrawny underweight faggot

3 hours later 4103312 Anonymous
>>4103044 I'm just passing by and I'm fat.

3 hours later 4103313 Anonymous
>>4102709 It's neither a great show nor particularly inaccessible to Americans, you shit-eater

3 hours later 4103318 Anonymous
>>4103313 Its an okay show Don't be so "patrician"

3 hours later 4103323 Anonymous
>>4103318 It's not though. The satire is painfully, obviously straightforward, and it's usually completely tasteless. Even Family Guy is less embarrassing to watch

3 hours later 4103325 Anonymous
>>4103323 But why are you so bothered

3 hours later 4103342 Anonymous
>>4103325 Not him but it's painful to learn that we share a board with people who seriously appreciate South Park.

3 hours later 4103348 Anonymous
>>4103325 Honestly, i'm just upset at that jibe towards Americans. Thinking that a cartoon is ungraspable by the average American is pretty insulting

3 hours later 4103362 Anonymous
>>4103348 It is pretty damned ignorant

4 hours later 4103374 Anonymous
>>4103348 I am shocked and appalled.

4 hours later 4103399 Anonymous
This is a great South Park thread

12 hours later 4104670 Anonymous
>>4102995 Please. ....

12 hours later 4104679 Anonymous
>>4103323 The thing that disturbs me most about South Park is just how tendentious it became. The first few episodes was just farts and anal probes, then they started ham-fisted commentary about the (often useless) "issues" of the times. It's kind of disgusting just how vibrant and unmasked Stan and Kyle came to be monolog-laden mouthpieces for Trey and Matt. >>4103323 >Even Family Guy is less embarrassing to watch Only slightly. Brian is Seth's puppet-self, and that gets just as tendentious.

12 hours later 4104682 Anonymous
>>4104670

12 hours later 4104686 Anonymous
>>4104670 >>4104682 I was in a bookstore once not long ago. Didn't buy anything. The end.

13 hours later 4104688 Anonymous
>>4104686 I am socially anxious and praise God that I live in an era where I can order everything online from amazon. I never go into bookstores. The end.

21 hours later 4105469 Anonymous
>>4102691 will you also teach grown men how to read by fucking chicken?

21 hours later 4105472 Anonymous
>>4103313 Takao calm down

21 hours later 4105492 Anonymous
I went to Daunt Books on Cheapside and bought some Dave Eggers book by McSweeney's (apparently the only copy in stock) for my gf. The sales assistant was tremendously delighted and told me he had had his eye on the copy himself. I told him it was a lovely piece of book fetishism and I was buying it as a present and he agreed while looking at me awkwardly like a teen homo before making some vague comments about how amazing Dave Eggers was. Then I received for the first time one of the ubiquitous Daunt Books tote bags so pretentiously worn by half of London and trotted back off to work.

21 hours later 4105500 Anonymous
It sounds like the kind of situation which the only appropriate response would be to tip ones fedora. Seriously, I picture most people here as internally awkward if not socially so. I don't think people here would be the types to ever talk about literature with such exuberance for they've been forced to re-think their entire viewpoints on things way too many occasions by now and gallivanting around cajoling every filthy pleeb to discover some amazing new thing is a way less cynical attitude than they're used to.

21 hours later 4105504 Anonymous (MI0001352640.jpg 400x347 19kB)
>>4105500 I predict an era coming soon where ppl are far less cynical

21 hours later 4105518 Anonymous
>>4105504 your predicitons of the future are laughable because they point to your ignorance of today; sincerity has become incredibly visible in most forms of contemporary writing and art.

21 hours later 4105524 Anonymous
>>4105518 >sincerity has become incredibly visible in most forms of contemporary writing and art. Cite some examples that aren't DFW. We'll wait. And don't list one or two jokers. "Incredibly visible" does not mean a mere one or two scribblers somehow made it into print.

22 hours later 4105533 Anonymous
>>4105518 How do you mean?

22 hours later 4105583 Anonymous
>>4105504 seconded. irony is boring and predictable now.

23 hours later 4105708 Anonymous
At my local used bookstore I asked the guy at the counter if he could recommend any good contemporary poets and he said the only poets he likes is Shel Silverstein and Bob dylan

24 hours later 4105712 Anonymous
>>4102691 You have the utmost respect for him for being ''that guy''? A guy that fucks animals? You have very strange standards.

24 hours later 4105717 Anonymous
>>4103044 Skinnyfat here.

24 hours later 4105724 Anonymous
>>4105717 What the fuck does "skinnyfat" even mean?

24 hours later 4105727 Anonymous
>>4105708 Yeah, and? Dylan is one of the best living poets--for the English language, anyway. And Shel Silverstein isn't Keats, but it's obvious he never tried nor even wanted to be. I hope you don't think poetry must always be serious with serious concerns about love lost or ponderous existentialism, or something silly like that. It's obnoxious how everyone expects some bookstore employee to recommend them some little-known 13th century poet who'll blow your (and only your, you special snowflake) mind. Like the shop owner will lean in conspiratorially and whisper, "all these books out here, they're for the plebs, so I can make a buck." Hitting a hidden lever, a small door behind the shopowner opens up. "I've been saving all my treasures back here for someone just like you. Come along--but soft--make sure none of the other patrons notice!" Get real.

24 hours later 4105730 Anonymous
>>4105724 I can't explain it best, but I think it's like when you've got some fat on you that it's visible, but not so much that you'd get called fat or chubby, but you're still not skinny enough to be called skinny. Nor are you normal... Does that make sense?

24 hours later 4105739 Anonymous
>>4105524 Let's open the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry... Seamus Heaney Robert Hass Robert Pinsky Margaret Atwood Mary Oliver Mark Strand W.S Merwin The list goes on. Many of these poets have ironic poems, as most poets do, but they're not stylistically devoted to irony. Scribblers you think? Off the top of my head, in fiction, I can point to Dennis Johnson's work as unironic. Junot Diaz. Some of the recent Pulitzers certainly don't sound ironic.

24 hours later 4105743 Anonymous (Male-Body-Type-Chart-Ottermode-Builtfat-Bearmode-S.jpg 720x393 63kB)
>>4105730 >>4105724 Most people are "skinnyfat". It has to do with muscle-to-fat ratio. For example, if you have no muscle definition but you're skinny, you're considered skinny fat because the fat impedes definition. Lack of fat and some definition equals ottermode. Pic related. Bottom left.

24 hours later 4105746 Anonymous
>>4105724 It's the skinny fucks who hardly do any kind of exercise to get that way. So they're just skinny because they don't eat much on top of not doing much. They have a high BF%, but they're still skinny. Most people I've met who identify as skinny are skinnyfat.

24 hours later 4105748 Anonymous
>>4105724 It means that you're somewhere in the mid to high teens or low twenties in bodyfat percentage with no real muscle mass. The result is that your body is slenderish but also shapeless.

24 hours later 4105749 Anonymous
>>4105739 >lists a bunch of poets who have nothing to do with new sincerity Cool.

36 hours later 4107349 Anonymous
>>4105492 Should have busted his back door in.

37 hours later 4107400 Anonymous
>>4102709 >Americans don't get south park. That's why the show is ultra popular. South Park is humor for manchildren who, as it happens, comprise most of the 18-35 age group. It wears a thin veneer of intelligence in order to keep it relevant, but look at it for more than three seconds and it crumbles. Its political points are overly simplistic and its comedy is mainly toilet and slapstick. They don't have the wit that the Daily Show has, the raw funniness of the pre-season ten Simpsons, nor dialogue that isn't just the two creators' voice and opinions grafted onto stupidly - voiced puppets. This show is retarded and despite trying to, I will never get its appeal.

37 hours later 4107408 Anonymous
>>4104679 Is no one else going to admit it? Fine, I will. I had to look tendentious up. Now I know what it means.

37 hours later 4107410 Anonymous
>>4104688 What if you're socially anxious Because you live in an era where you can buy everything online?

46 hours later 4108072 Anonymous
>>4107400 Most SP fans realize this Why are you so bothered?

46 hours later 4108077 Anonymous
>>4107400 >They don't have the wit that the Daily Show >Daily Show >wit stopped reading there

46 hours later 4108083 Anonymous
>>4107400 I CANT HEAR YOU ALL THE WAY UP ON THAT HIGH HORSE

46 hours later 4108120 Anonymous (1359121023708.jpg 189x251 6kB)
>>4103323 >Even Family Guy is less embarrassing to watch pdr centseem

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