how to live the literary life in 2025? i went to a cafe with a book and it was all roasties vlogging their food, i saw some people reading in the public transport but i didn't want to assail them, library is just for hobos to jerk off, what are my possibilities?

Read at home.

>>24558329 (OP)
Every city has a small but rich circle of drugtaking humanity students. They obviously don't last long, and a certain amount of brain damage is a mandatory consequence, but this is your best bet.

>>24558390
>Every city has a small but rich circle of drugtaking humanity students.
what drugs do they take? is it safe in the fentanyl era?

>>24558399
Their trajectory begins with mushrooms and LSD and ketamine and MDMA. Then typically becomes more and more cocaine and alcohol before self destructing and burning up.

>>24558329 (OP)
You think Joyce and Proust went around questioning how to ”live the literary life”? Literature is the product of life. If you only care to larp as a writer/reader, what’s the point? You’re clearly no better than those you seek to critique as you yourself wish to live a lie.

>>24558404
Accurate but it is worth pointing out that these circles, while engaging, are mostly made up of frauds. If you're partying and talking with your other 'smart friends' all the time you're only reading a few hours a week so it all becomes pretty stale. OP if you want people who actually love and are devoted to humanities your only option is grad school or somehow becoming friends with grad students. People like that are virtually non-existent outside of higher ed. At best you might occasionally meet an opinionated loser like the sort who post here, but these people are all frauds too.

>>24558404
>Their trajectory begins with mushrooms and LSD and ketamine and MDMA.
that sounds more like Joe Rogan MMA, jewjitsu stuff
>Then typically becomes more and more cocaine and alcohol before self destructing and burning up.
that makes more sense

>>24558329 (OP)
>it was all roasties vlogging their food
No it wasn’t. Nobody does this. I’m so sick of you faggots writing fictional posts to seethe about a world that doesn’t exist anywhere but in your mind.

>>24558422
i don't know about Joyce, but Proust literally paid people to give him good reviews in newspapers, so i guess he was embedded in some sort of literary scene
>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/29/marcel-proust-paid-glowing-reviews-appear-newspapers-according/

>>24558432
>OP if you want people who actually love and are devoted to humanities your only option is grad school or somehow becoming friends with grad students
i thought you had to hate the humanities to study humanities

>>24558439
>No it wasn’t. Nobody does this.
have you ever gone outside? you think videos of food magically pop up on the internet without anybody filming them anywhere? AI is not that advanced yet

>>24558452
>have you ever gone outside
Ironic coming from someone who thinks the world us actually full of YASS girls taking pictures of croissants because he doesn’t leave his house, scrolls social media and thinks michaels daughter from GTA V is representative of real life people.

>>24558461
maybe i went to the wrong cafe, don't hate the messenger

>>24558463
I don’t believe you even went to a cafe, to be honest, let alone with a book.

>>24558477
it was a bad book, but i did, they served me a coffee in a jar that looked something like this, that part was fine

>>24558329 (OP)
Read fucking books. That's it. The "literary life" is a meme propagated by fags who care more about being seen with a book than reading or writing.

>>24558422
>Literature is the product of life

Life has been replaced by technology, no wonder modern lit sucks ass

>>24558480
Between the “girls taking pictures of food”, using the word “vlog” and acting like anyone is still serving anything in jars I kinda just assume you’re stuck in 2016. Either a bot or a perpetual shut-in.

>>24558527
all the good writers were part of a literary milieu, even the allegedly reclusive ones like Salinger started in the New York literary scene and only became a recluse after he had enough money to do it

>>24558541
Meanwhile you're not a goof writer or even a writer, just a dude who wants to LARP like one. Get your head out of your ass.

>>24558548
yeah well, literary scenes also have a place for bitter abject failures, it's all part of the ecosystem

>>24558329 (OP)
this painting is making me horny

>>24558329 (OP)
I'm unemployed, sponge of my friends for drinks, get into heated debates at the pub, am a pervert, and find some time in the day to read and write. I would consider that a pretty literary way to live.

>>24558480
>iced coffee
I hate americans so much

>>24558574
not bad

>>24558584
It annoys me that when I order a coffee now, I have to specify I'd like it hot...

>>24558584
>>24558591
Worked at a coffee shop for a few months and it made me insane how many people ask for iced coffee, extra sugar extra cream.

In the end it was like 10 percent coffee.

>>24558329 (OP)
This is such a gay way to think of the world.. Living in accordance with some ideal instead of just doing what you enjoy, it’s what tryhard fakes do who are insecure. People who like to write dont need to make themselves either they just do.

>>24558329 (OP)
1: Buy pipe and pipe tobacco
2: Cut off all contact with friends and family
3: Write two short stories, a rambling manuscript, and fifteen fragements
4: Kill yourself with propane canister

>>24558615
wrong, if you write in your bedroom nobody is going to read you

>>24558623
What are you saying? Many great books were conceived and finished solely within bedrooms.

>>24558625
first you have to go out in the world and become disillusioned, then comes the bedroom, you can't skip the first part and achieve the same results

>>24558632
>>24558623
The ironic thing is you aren’t writing THIS from experience, since you’re a nobody with no concept of being “read” by others. This is one of the biggest myths and you’re just parroting what you’ve heard others say.

>>24558329 (OP)
come to the NyClit meetups and toast the literary life with a little bubbly and sodomy