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When she emerged from the house with her two buckets clattering on their pole, Esmeralda found a pale and silent island softened by its veil of fog. It clung to the trees, hung shining dewdrops in the grass, whisped noiselessly across the colorless sands of the beaches. As it moved in sheets and layers before her eyes, it would hide and then reveal the long fishhook of the island where it stretched out to sea. The well was out there, on the furthest curved point of the hook, an ancient and mossy cairn of stones built before living memory. There was a freshwater grotto immediately next to the house, but the Old Woman had long ago declared its waters unfit for drinking and warned Esmeralda never to go near it. Rebellious, she crept from the house one clear and moonlight night after this pronouncement to taste from a dipper its waters, and found them as clean and drinkable as she remembered. The next morning she sat by the grotto for as long as it took her normally to walk to the well and back, then filled the buckets and brought them inside. The Old Woman took one sip, knocked the bucket to the floor, and struck Esmeralda on the ear with her cane.

“You try to make a fool of me? That water is from the grotto.”

“What does it matter?” said Esmeralda, nursing her stinging ear, “it’s good, clean water, I tested it myself.”

“Ignorant child,” said the Old Woman, “the problem is not with the water, but what is in it.”

And she would say no more. She could be maddeningly cryptic at times, and if it pained her to keep secrets from her sole human companion it was not apparent to Esmeralda. She spent all that morning mopping water from the scuffed floorboards. Now she made the daily walk to the well without complaint. In retrospect, it seemed silly to shirk this middling chore with so little else to do on such a small island.

>>8623544
It's not bad. The plot, or what's been posted so far of it, is interesting. It reads a little slow though. Something clunky about it. Doesn't pop for me. It almost sounds a little outdated. If you're like the rest of /lit/ and don't read books written post-1980 (excluding that book from '96), you should do so.

It's absolutely worth finishing though, and I do like the whole thing about not waking up her island-mate. Immediately had me asking questions, which made me want to read more.

>>8623581

now that you mention it, I don't read many modern books. I do want it the writing feel sort of old fashioned, like a fairy tale, but not to the story's detriment.

Its context sensitive, but is most often used to mimic the voice of someone quoting in a mocking voice.

>>8623513
"Some things can't really be conveyed except through greentext" he mimicked sarcastically.

>something entirely new
I think it's just sentence fragments and the only reason why it's acceptable is because of the setup and medium of 4chan.
I've read some great greentext stories, most of them rely on implications, like microfiction. It's similar to stream of consciousness writing isn't it? More swift.

Nope.

>>8623503
Maybe I'll try /his/

i only need to look at the cover to know it's shit

Manufacturing Consent

>>8623455
We don't recommend leftists to anyone on here. So scoot on, kid

>>8623463
>>>/pol/

he fuggged another dudes wife lmao

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>>8623407
Crane was homosexual, the poem talks about a heterosexual experience with one of his closest friend's wives, the wife of biographer critic Malcolm Crowley.

It's Crane's farewell to poetry and to life. It was the last new poem of his to be published.
Most of Crane's poetry is up for interpretation, it's just the way he wrote. People disagree on a lot of his poems.
Look at his longest work, The Bridge. It's an optimistic Whitmanian song of American ingenuity, an antithesis to Eliot's Wasteland. It focused a lot on the architecture of New York, praising it in song both to the effect of metaphor and literally. Now consider the title of "The Broken Tower". It was more likely than not meant as a farewell. It's despair in Crane's signature lateral eloquence.

Anyone have any particular Crane lines in their head a lot?
'minstrel galleons of Carib fire' keeps coming up.

>>>/wsr/
>>>/mu/

Ulysses

Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Music Composition

Quotations marks make you stop and spit and he has to ride on.

pointless and clunky

First answer, best answer. Enjoy your job copy-editing ads for j.crew, op.

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>>8623359
Wow, you're on /lit/ and criticizing The Great Gatsby?

You're such a nonbore

>>8623359
Protip: Authors like Fitzgerald, Clemens, and Hemingway are forced on American schoolchildren because Americans have always been jealous of the great English literary tradition, and are desperate to have one of their own. Americans can't write.

>>8623370
>does anyone on /lit/ like TGG
it's pretty clear I don't think I'm special for disliking it, I'm asking for someone who DOES like it to possibly explain why.

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Abbott

>>8623307
>Borges, Pynchon, ???
i dont know

Does math play into Borges poetry at all?

>>8623289
>Can 4chan be considered a place like a city or a street would?
i dont know

>>8623289
It's probably the closest you'll get to a non-gentrified internet community if that means anything

>>8623300
so a ghetto shithole

Stop being poor lolmao

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>movie books

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who buys the movie tie in editions, they are usually the worst quality.

Ulysses

Beckett I guess

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

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>>8623224
This is a pretty good book about that subject. It starts off with Raymond Carver and John Cheever waiting for a liqour store in iowa to open so they can buy rotgut vodka and from there it details the links between writers and self medication.

>>8623224
Isn't that just a bunch of Dayquil cold medicine capsules?

>>8623430
Dayquil and Nyquil contain dextromethorphan as a primary ingredient. If you swallow enough of it, you trip balls.

You're a fucking white male.

No, seriously.

>>8623206
>Why is it so hard to get a literary agent?
i dont know

>>8623250
you say it like privilege matters

The internet, blogs, self-publishing have siphoned a lot of dogshit away from the major publishers. They're very happy not to receive those query letters anymore...

Just like Hollywood, publishers are looking for stuff that will sell and become a franchise...and the genres that sell like hotcakes are chick-lit/romance and children's. They don't give a shit what you look like.

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>>8623183
Why the fuck does it matter if you self-project yourself into the book?
As long as the miserable and depressed archetype fits in the story it will be beneficial because you will find it easy depicting a depressed cunt from your personal experience.
Any other complaints can be taken to >>>/r9k/

I suggest you read more and then come back to writing. Growing up is a good idea too

>>8623202

it matters for me. i can't really explain it. it just feels wrong.
Please don't send me back into that shithole. I'm trying to never go back there again.


>>8623203
but i'm reading stuff all the time.