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But she looked at the Prince and her eyes struck him as devoid of fear or cunning. She was like those tender animals of the wood just before he slew them in the hunt: eyes wide, expressionless.

Her bosom heaved with anxious breath. And now he laughed, drawing near, and lifting her hair back from her right shoulder. She looked up at him steadily, her cheeks suffused with a raw blush, and again he kissed her.

He opened her mouth with his lips, and taking her hands in his left hand he laid them down on her naked lap so that he might lift her breasts now and better examine them.

“Innocent beauty,” he whispered.

He knew what she was seeing as she looked at him. He was only three years older than she had been. Eighteen, newly a man, but afraid of nothing and no one. He was tall, black haired; he had a lean build which made him agile. He liked to think of himself as a sword—light, straight, and very deft, and utterly dangerous.

And he had left behind him many who would concur with this.

He had not so much pride in himself now as immense satisfaction. He had gotten to the core of the accursed castle.

There were knocks at the door, cries.

He didn’t bother to answer them. He laid Beauty down again.

“I’m your Prince,” he said, “and that is how you will address me, and that is why you will obey me.”

>>9198051
>mfw people really reads books

>>9198051
>Reddit

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>mfw people wageslave instead of living on neetbux

Write your own poems feg.

Also composer reporting in.
http://benzcomposer.weebly.com/compositions.html

>>9198029
>how do I into obscure (advanced) poetry without knowing poetry

You have to understand poetry at a simple level (consistent meter, rhyme scheme, etc.) before you can move on to free verse, otherwise you'll be a philistine thinking "i could write this shit" while reading the poetry of e.g. Ashbury.

>>9198334
i don't want to

>>9198352
wtf are you talking about

>>9197957
Actually is the bible of edgy readers. But yes

>required reading to post on /r9k/
>merit

>>9197966
What?

>>9197929
>spoonfeed me opinions please, I can't make my own
embarrasing

>>9197970
Yes. You got me senpai.

>>9197929
Her appreciations and account of her time in Vietnam are quite good, actually... but I'm afraid that's it. In her more youthful writings, in other words, you can feel her excitement for books, which is always charming. The essay on Camp is a comfy-classic. Her legacy is the Photography book, I'd guess.

>>9197892
Everyone who replies will tell you to read Proust.
If you want something shorter, read the lyric poetry of Apollinaire. His French isn't *that* difficult.

>>9197904
i've considered proust. but from what i heard, he's big on flowery prose and i'm not a huge fan of that.
thanks a lot for the recs!

>>9197892
If you sauce me on that pic

It Can't Happen Here if he's against Trump.
Art of the Deal if he supports him.

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>>9197848

>>9197806
what didnt you like about it?

>>9197810
probably because he read the pv translation

>>9197806
((((((((((The Idiot))))))))))

this sounds like that shitty keanu reeves movie, little buddha

>>9197819
what do you mean?

haven't seen the movie yet.

>>9197774
;-/

Great for a 13 year old.

>>9197880
Well, there's a place down the block that gives free books out. Based on what I picked up, can I get a recommendations for a non 13 year old?

>>9197741
Consideration on France. You can branch out after that wherever you like.

>>9197997
thanks

>>9197741
Baudelaire was a fan, if not a worshipper. His manner is so trenchant, clear, it doesn't really matter where you start this late in time. The St. Petersburg Dialogues (should be Evenings) are mesmerizing.

>>9197620
>82 years old
>stroke

He'll be fine.

>>9197620
>the wiki
he looked like a lesbian in the 80s

He still a cunt

>>9197493
He hits it secretly and then goes back into the livingroom and blows smoke out of his ears!

The grandkids laugh, grandpa is such a zany trickster of a man!

>>9197566
what a guy

>>9197566
>be a kid
>you think your grandpa is pretty weird but he's got a nice house by the beach so that's cool


Tfw pyncho will never be your grandpa

>100 pages an hour
>read and concentrate better
fuck off dude

>>9197481
Sage goes in all fields

>Sage

>>9197429
6 hours

It's a poem so it's not hugely long, but it has archaic text at times (and also it assumes the reader has some basic familiarity with christianity).

>Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
>Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
>When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep
>Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

So in terms of difficulty it's not Finnegans Wake but neither is it Harry Potter.

5 hours