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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:30:13 No.7294774 View Reply Report Delete

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Does the place you live have a strong /lit/ culture? What is the most /lit/ place in your country? What is the most /lit/ place in the world?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:34:07 No.7294786 Report Delete

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OP here, I do not live in a very /lit/erary part of my country. My university is the best in the country (if not the world) for sports, and that comes at the detriment of pretty much everything else. There are lots of future Olympians and sport stars walking around, but I'd be surprised if anyone here will ever produce anything of artistic merit because no one seems to be interested in that.

I have no ideas which part of the country are more /lit/worthy, but I'd guess that London, Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge all have pretty strong traditions for literature. Whether or not the people there reflect this I have no idea.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:55:18 No.7295069 Report Delete

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http://www.visitbuckinghamshire.org/Inspiration/Literary-Connections

Milton finished Paradise Lost in my county, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein here, Roald Dahl lived here etc.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:40:51 No.7295246 Report Delete

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>>7295069
What's Buckinghamshire like to live in? It's not /lit/-relevant, but a company I might be able to work for after graduating is based there, and I don't know whether it would be a good move for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:41:37 No.7295248 Report Delete

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>>7295246
Where exactly are they based? Like all counties it varies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:42:52 No.7295256 Report Delete

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starbucks is the most /lit/ place in the world and they are global. and fyi, your city ain't /lit/ unless it has a starbucks density of at least 2 for every 3 city blocks

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:52:38 No.7295305 Report Delete

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>>7294774
I sat and read a good deal of Pale Fire on the rocky hill right behind that canoe

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:55:39 No.7295315 Report Delete

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I never go outside so my house is pretty literary, yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:58:07 No.7295322 Report Delete

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>>7295248
A place called Bourne End, which I think is near the Berkshire border (if Bucks even has a border with Berkshire - my UK geography still leaves a lot to be desired).

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:58:08 No.7295323 Report Delete

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>>7294774
Where is this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:59:11 No.7295328 Report Delete

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> Live next to UCL's East European School
> A block away from Keynes and Woolf's residences
> In Downtown London
> Don't experience any literature whatsoever
such is life

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:59:22 No.7295330 Report Delete

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>>7295323
Moraine Lake in Canada, it's either in Jasper National Park or Banff National Park, can't remember which. I didn't take the pic but I was there a few months ago, the whole area is just ridiculously beautiful (assuming you like mountains, lakes, and forests).

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:59:37 No.7295331 Report Delete

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Orlando has a surprisingly decent literary scene, especially considering there isn't a fucking independent bookstore in the city itself any more. It is kind of divided though. There's the whole "litlando" scene which revolves around one set of events/group of people, and then there's the University of Central Florida MFA crowd, and I feel like I'm one of the few who shows up at events for both. Some pretty good independent presses in the area though.
Is it god tier? No. It's good, a lot better than other places I've been.
According to UNESCO Iowa City is the most /lit/ place in the US of A. I'd say Chicago is pretty good though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:01:35 No.7295338 Report Delete

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Is Canada as much of a cultural wasteland as I imagine it to be?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:02:34 No.7295341 Report Delete

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>>7295338
It's Little America so yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:04:29 No.7295349 Report Delete

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>>7295322
You not from the UK? Where are you from?

I don't really know about Bourne End, it looks alright on gmaps,. I'm North Bucks, but was born in High Wycombe which is near Bourne End.

South Bucks is weird because High Wycombe is a complete arsehole full of pakis and chavs, but then you have places like Beaconsfield and Henley which are very posh and lovely places. Beaconsfield is the most expensive town to live in iirc.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:06:11 No.7295357 Report Delete

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I read a lot of /lit/core books so I have to say my room is pretty /lit/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:06:22 No.7295358 Report Delete

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There is nothing literary here, only slam poetry nights

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:08:09 No.7295367 Report Delete

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Can a place be truly /lit/ if it doesn't have such a good public transport system that you don't need to own a car?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:08:17 No.7295368 Report Delete

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>>7295349
No I am from the UK, I just don't know certain parts of the country very well. I know all of the home counties are in the south, but I don't know their locations in relation to each other at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:08:57 No.7295371 Report Delete

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>>7295338
yeah but who the fuck cares. this isn't /int/, you can read Joyce in Manitoba just as well as you can read him in Dublin

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:09:00 No.7295372 Report Delete

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>>7295368
lel same here tbh

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:13:43 No.7295382 Report Delete

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>>7295371
This (and I'm not even Canadian).

The "no culture" meme is a bit forced since you can have access to almost all cultures of all times, in all countries in the world.

Then it's all a problem of coherence, not of cultural opportunities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 17:32:53 No.7295452 Report Delete

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>>7295371
>fantasizing about dublin and thinking it has "literary culture" because it's been written about by one author
I'd rather watch Maddin's Winnipeg than bore myself with Joyce's bad Irishisms
but this is a thread for those losers who want to live the "literary lifestyle" so w/e

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:55:45 No.7296030 Report Delete

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I live in Baltimore, so yes and no. Everyone jacks it to Poe all the time, but nobody's read anything past The Raven in high school.

I'm guilty of the latter bit too, but this isn't my hometown so it's okay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:11:51 No.7296104 Report Delete

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>Ireland
yeah it's pretty based

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 22:19:17 No.7296544 Report Delete

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Brussels. Nothing exciting today but it's easy to get published, there's a ton of culture, I'm in most European capitals in a couple of hours and the /lit/ scene is awkwardly active. For the most /lit/ place I would say either New York, Paris, London or some eastern city absurdly cultured in the past, like Sarajevo or Dubrovnic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:09:47 No.7297187 Report Delete

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No, most people in Vancouver can't read. They have like 5 book stores in total, one book warehouse store in Burnaby, and a fuck ton of Asians for some reason only have 1 chinese book store in Richmond. I have no idea if the rest of Canada is like this, but back in California, there were Barnes and Nobles everywhere and they were always jam packed even the parts with only phillipinos. So, I would San Francisco is pretty impressive. Honestly I have no idea what people do in Vancouver if they don't read. There isn't anything here to do except hiking in the country side.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:16:00 No.7297202 Report Delete

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>>7294774
The American southeast has a distinct literary tradition that I'm glad to be a part of, but it's time to go back to my spiritual home in the northeast. Cities are where the action is for a young man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:20:52 No.7297212 Report Delete

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I literally live in a place call Reading

objectively the most /lit/ place one can live

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:21:20 No.7297215 Report Delete

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>>7296030
>Everyone jacks it to Poe
>No one knows who John Barth is

It's tough being a Marylander.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:25:55 No.7297226 Report Delete

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>>7297212
>a place call Reading
Are you an immigrant they've not told it's pronounced to rhyme with "bedding" because they think it's cute?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:43:59 No.7297249 Report Delete

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it's funny how /lit/ has more threads about things 'being /lit/' than any actual threads about literature

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:48:32 No.7297255 Report Delete

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>>7297249
my sides

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:51:14 No.7297259 Report Delete

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>>7297249

It's funny how you care about board culture shit this much.

Half of this board are literal teenagers.
More than half for other boards.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:51:44 No.7297260 Report Delete

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>>7297259
my sides

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:59:16 No.7297268 Report Delete

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San Francisco bay area.

We had the beats pass through here a while ago (through my hometown, actually. I met a man who had spent some time with them when they came through), as well as Robert Frost and Mark Twain (briefly, I think), a long time ago. The area's also pretty close to Berkeley and Stanford (not that that guarantees anything).

Irrespective of fame, however, the natural beauty of my home is breathtaking, and the near constant ~72° weather is very favorable to writing.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 03:49:31 No.7297347 Report Delete

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>>7297260
my corners

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