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So, this is basically fan fiction, right?

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Ok buckle up this is my reimagining of P&P but this time around? There's fags. Hope you enjoy!

Elizabeth Bennet was eating a grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast with Steve, some faggot who had asked her out on a date.

"Sure is hot out today huh?" Said steve, who was an enormous fucking faggot. Ever since he was a boy people had shouted "Hey faggot!" at him from car windows and house windows and bus windows.

"Want some ketchup on that sandwich girl?" Said Steve, who's clumsy employment of african american vernacular, coupled with the ultimate faggot move of putting ketchup on food, was the ultimate confluence of faggotry. Not only that, at that moment his cellphone rang and the ring tone was a popular song at the time. It was the Faggot Store, and they wanted their fag back (Steve is their faggot.)

"Well I gotta go back to the Faggot store where I suck dick all day."

"Goodbye Steve" said Elizabeth Bennet as she finished her sandwich. She went outside the restaurant and the sun was shining in a cool but sad way, like life could end at any moment but that's what makes it beautiful. It was beautiful to be young, she decided, as she bicycled through the city. A bunch of ugly faggots beckoned to her: "Hey lady, wanna watch Game of Thrones and refer to things like guacamole as 'Guac'?"

"No thanks!" Said Elizabeth. She could tell this faggot had spent like $40 on his shoes, because if there's one thing that should be cheap it's the article of clothing you wear every day. "You're a fag I can tell by your gay shoes and shit taste." She spat on him and Nelson Mandela who had recently risen from his grave was passing by and hi-fived her mightily.

Her hand smarted from hi fiving Nelson Mandela so hard but in a good way, you know? She continued biking through town in a cool whimsical way, slaloming between manhole covers while riding with no hands. She got hit by a car and convalesced for 18 months before being released from the hospital. After 18 months of hospital food there was just one thing on Elizabeth's mind: to do pottery. At her favorite local pottery store she shaped some wet putty into a gay little vase. It was too small to put any flowers in but slightly too big to put on a desk and use as a pencil holder. It was the ultimate useless piece of faggot shit. She grinned like a jackpot millionaire "Fuck the government. We need to use our guns to shoot every agent of the government until we either implode or reach the moon." she said to no one in particular. The adderall was kicking in. It was time to create a new society.

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Doesn't anyone get afraid of posting their work online only to have someone else reuse or steal it?

I really want to know if this has ever happened to anyone too.

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Are there any space operas besides Foundation, Dune and Ringworld?

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What are some other books like these?

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I'm a recent high school graduate, soon to be freshman in uni, and I'd like to expand my knowledge of literature, in a sense- widen my horizons. I'm super interested in stoic phillosophy, so I've put "Letters from a Stoic," and "Meditations" on my list. Anything else that you might recommend?

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I just finished small gods by terry pratchett and im depressed that this plotline ends with just one book.

Are any of the other discworld books similar and worth reading?

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Yes, yes, well done, Zizek, well done

HOWEVER

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Hey /lit/, what are some good books to help me learn more about prosody/scansion/forms? I have a decent background, having read The Ode Less Travelled, memorized the forms in it, and also having read Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams. Are there any more advanced books? I want to try to teach myself to have a very advanced understanding of poetry. Is Fussell's Poetic Verse and Poetic Form good? I heard that it is more advanced than the other books, but I wanted to hear what you guys thought of it. And by the way, I already read a lot of poetry on the side, so there's no need to tell me to "just read poetry." Thanks

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This guy any good?

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So, /lit/, how can you justify any novel but Capti as being the best this century?
> protip: you can't
This book is criminally underdiscussed here, despite its great prose and literary merit

https://www.amazon.com/CAPTI-Fabula-Menippeo-Hoffmanniana-Americana-Latin/dp/1456759744

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Post spooky books please.

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>author is a woman

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I dunno what other board to post on besides here.
Anyways:
What's the difference between Erebus (Erebos) and Thanatos?
One source I checked said Erebus was the god of death, and Thanatos the daemon of darkness, but another said Erebus was darkness and Thanatos death.
Can anyone who knows more about Greek mythology tell me which is which?

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I feel like this is the appropriate place for this thread

The first and last sentence in a book
Try guessing if you want

"It's not that bad being dead."
"Then I sat with Astor and waited for the for the music to start."