I just don't understand. How the fuck Bianca and Gottfried the same person? And despite that, how does a sex slave fall in love with his master (Blicero)? I know this is avant-garde, but what the fuck.
Also, why is everybody gay in this book?
>>8313003
>I know this is avant-garde, but what the fuck.
kek
maybe avant-garde is not for you
>how does a sex slave fall in love with his master (Blicero)?
these are not people, these are characters constructed for the purpose of presenting ideas. slave/master is just a power dynamic
Is it even possible to be a patrician if you didn't go here? Is there even any point in living? Gravity's Rainbow and Moby Dick even mention it by name.
t. didnt go there
yes but you need to be rich
poorfags cant be /lit/ and goign to harvard or an equivalent school helps you on that path.
>>8312882
Yes. The only education that's worth shit is the self-taught.
>>8312882
Why not go for grad school there anon? I had a very /lit/ teacher who went UMass Boston for undergrad but then went to Harvard for his grad degree
Would you refuse to date a chick if she doesn't read?
I wouldn't. If she does read (IE read serious literature), she's probablyu some feminazi cunt. There's really no winning here. I'll stick with stupid.
>>8312851
Women don't understand what they read anyways.
As long as she's okay with getting pounded hard and sucking my duck whenever I want, and she knows how to clean the house and make my dinner, I don't care.
Be an alpha. Treat them like the children they are
Redpill over and out
>>8312851
ive only met one girl my age who was into serious lit in my life, and practically all she read was russian lit. so unless you expect me to disqualify 99.9% of women ive ever known.... no.
So, how's the novel you're writing coming along?
>>8312328
Just fine
>>8312328
I decided to read In Search of the Lost time first, since my novel deals with a similar subject.
F*ck.
I havent tried writing a novel yet. Still working on prose and research.
Name a better poet
protip: you literally cant
Sylvia Plath
>>8311511
>muh depression
boooring
>>8311513
It's about things that matter, none of this gay gay-love
Which languages should one be able to speak to be considered /lit/?
>>8311087
allof them . . . .
English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.In that order.
>>8311087
Ingvaeonic, Aeolic dialect of classical Greek, Tenochtitlan Nahuatl, Xi'an Tang dynasty dialect of Chinese, Demotic Egyptian and Latin. Any other questions?
Post your storys, poems, plots etc. and get critique or criticize others work.
constructive critique preferred.
Okay, here goes.
Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. They’re long and thin and splay-toed, with buttons of yellow callus on the little toes and a thick stair-step of it on the back of the heel, and a few long black hairs are curling out of the skin at the tops of the feet, and the red nail polish is cracking and peeling in curls and candy-striped with decay. Lenore only notices because Mindy’s bent over in the chair by the fridge picking at some of the polish on her toes; her bathrobe’s opening a little, so there’s some cleavage visible and everything, a lot more than Lenore’s got, and the thick white towel wrapped around Mindy’s wet washed shampooed head is coming undone and a wisp of dark shiny hair has slithered out of a crack in the folds and curled down all demurely past the side of Mindy’s face and under her chin. It smells like Flex shampoo in the room, and also pot, since Clarice and Sue Shaw are smoking a big thick j-bird Lenore got from Ed Creamer back at Shaker School and brought up with some other stuff for Clarice, here at school.
What’s going on is that Lenore Beadsman, who’s fifteen, has just come all the way from home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, right near Cleveland, to visit her big sister, Clarice Beadsman, who’s a freshman at this women’s college, called Mount Holyoke; and Lenore’s staying with her sleeping bag in this room on the second floor of Rumpus Hall that Clarice shares with her roommates, Mindy Metalman and Sue Shaw. Lenore’s also come to sort of check out this college, a little bit. This is because even though she’s just fifteen she’s supposedly quite intelligent and thus accelerated and already a junior at Shaker School and thus thinking about college, application-wise, for next year. So she’s visiting. Right now it’s a Friday night in March.
Sue Shaw, who’s not nearly as pretty as Mindy or Clarice, is bringing the joint over here to Mindy and Lenore, and Mindy takes it and lets her toe alone for a second and sucks the bird really hard, so its glows bright and a seed snaps loudly and bits of paper ash go flying and floating, which Clarice and Sue find super funny and start laughing at really hard, whooping and clutching at each other, and Mindy breathes it in really deep and holds it in and passes the bird to Lenore, but Lenore says no thank you.
Little Baby Toad.
>little baby toad hopping around in the grass
>little baby toad, look at the little baby toad
>little baby toad in the palm of my hand
>little baby toad, look at this little baby toad
>little baby toad takes a little baby leap
>little baby toad doesn't know about gravity
>little baby toad broke her little baby bones
>little baby toad now all she knows is agony
>little baby toad writhing around on the cement
>I don't know if I can kill you but I can't watch you suffer
>little baby toad crunches underfoot like a leaf
>I'm sorry I was so tall and curious
>>8309238
Good names.
Your words flow well, but there were a couple odd ones for me
>demurely
>thus accelerated
Nice job overall
So why don't a few members of /lit/ move to some city and create a small intellectual community? Sharing the expenses and rent means less time working and more time writing/reading. Plus there's the possibility of real literary discussion without the memes of 4chan. Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places in the past but it seems like /lit/ is one of the last large and open groups that talks about literature. So why not take it to the next level like the Beatniks did?
>next level
>beatnik
How's high school going?
What are some /lit/ approved cities? Seems like the only cool places in the world are insanely expensive
>>8308751
Prague
I've been reading poetry for some time, just picking something to read here and there, but I'd like to learn more. Can you recommend a book that teaches the basics of poetry? And maybe a good anthology.
I know this is probably covered by another thread that can be found lurking the archive, but my phone is shit so apologies for that.
I speak English and Spanish.
If you want to learn about forms, read Rhyme's Reason by John Hollander.
If you like reading Spanish, have you read Vallejo? Excellent Peruvian poet.
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry
What are some good books for learning about Islam?
Welcome to Islam by Kumon Anslamand
>>8307622
the quran
>>8307622
>No god but God (Reza Aslan)
>The Study Quran
>A History of the Arab Peoples (Albert Hourani)
>Any decent textbook on Islam
I regret my English major.
regret nothing?
I regret much of my life
I regret being born.
Remember the Greek myth quoted by Nietzsche, somewhere in The Birth of Tragedy, about King looking in the forest Silenus, to the day he finally manages to find him, King Midas asked him "What is the most desirable thing for man?", Silenus answered "What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is—to die soon.”
What does your girlfriend read?
John Green and feminist SJW books like The Ethical Slut
>>8302907
She's a philosophy major, so she claims she doesn't have time for fiction while studying
SAD
ITT: Post the latest thing of any kind you've learnt from your readings
>>8295253
I want to lick her asshole
... I'll start: "zany" comes from a classical character in Italian plays. Here it is as a quote, but this comes from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary so don't take it literally,
>Zany n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.
The literary industry will accept any dogshit if they can meme about it in their articles, so I might as well write what I want and call it sci-fi, like I've been doing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wfSHTvCasQutMs0Ews3lti-bCmtQbFOc2iGZs40TkD4/edit?usp=sharing
Kek.
real story happening here
>>8308625
this is pretty good desu
>reading the wheel of time
>borrowing books from the library as I read them
>the next book in the series has been borrowed by someone else
>borrow the two after that so they can't borrow them and I won't be stuck behind them
Who /devilish/ here?
>wheel of time
Read something good pleb
>>8318889
>He reads to feel superior to others
>Doesn't use genre fiction as a means of escapism
smdh tbqh familly
I bet you base your idea of what is good on what is trending on /lit/ at the moment.
>>8318901
Read better genre fiction for escapism, faggot