Hey /lit/, I have given myself one week to live.
What book do you consider a must-read before departing? I'll be choosing 2 at most, depending on the size of the book.
I have read most of the canon.
>>7890655
talk to your doctor about SSRIs
read the sticky and fuck off cunt
The Old and New Testament.
Did he finish philosophy?
He never even started.
There he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?! Oh my God.
>>7889485
>he thinks it's a joke
>he's not been enlightened
Ahahahahahah. Oh dear. Oh dear m8.
What do you study, /lit/?
What do you study? Lit.
economics and mathematics
Photography.
Bad career choice. I mostly read philosophy nowadays, but at least I get to apply it/cover myself in chemicals.
What's the most influential piece of literature?
The Odyssey? The Mahabharata? The Illiad? The Ramayana?
The Fault In Our Stars
Gilgamesh.
dante's divine comedy. the man was a revolutionary in literature let alone art in its entirety
I need help /lit/ , I became obsessed with reading to the point of no return. The only thing I want to do in my life is to shut myself inside my room and read the countless books in my shelf. I don't want to talk to anybody or do anything else. I've got money to survive. Do any of you had a similar phase? Do any of you have the solution to my problem?
>>7893678
That's a great obsession.
Just read.
read this to snap out of it
>>7893678
How do I enter this phase?
What degree is more patrician, Classical Studies or English?
>>7891012
high school degree
Neither
Philosophy and Classics B.A. here.
Is being a NEET patrician?
/lit/, what is the most literary sport and why is it baseball?
Tennis, by far. And no, not because of le meme man.
>not road cycling
lmao@ur life
>not bullfighting
>not gladiatorial combat
Wew lad
>You will never as comfy as me
>pic related
Post your comfiest reading spots.
>>7887308
My word. that looks so comfy. Hopefully the lighting is ok
pic unrelated
I died. The sycamores
and shutters
along the dusty street were teased
by torrid Aeolus.
I walked,
and fauns walked, and in every faun
god Pan I seemed to recognise:
Good. I must be in Paradise.
Shielding her
face and to the sparkling sun
showing a russet armpit, in a doorway
there stood a naked little girl.
She had a water-lily in her curls
and was as graceful as a woman. Tenderly
her nipples bloomed, and I recalled
the springtime of my life on earth,
when through the alders on the river brink
so very closely I could watch
the miller’s youngest daughter as she stepped
out of the water, and she was all golden,
with a wet fleece between her legs.
And now, still
wearing the same dress coat
that I had on when killed last night,
with a rake’s predatory twinkle,
toward my Lilith I advanced.
She turned upon me a green eye
over her shoulder, and my clothes
were set on fire and in a trice
dispersed like ashes.
In the room behind
one glimpsed a shaggy Greek divan,
on a small table wine, pomegranates,
and some lewd frescoes covering the wall.
With two cold fingers childishly
she took me by my emberhead:
“now come along with me,” she said.
Without inducement,
without effort,
Just with the slowest of pert glee,
like wings she gradually opened
her pretty knees in front of me.
And how enticing, and how merry,
her upturned face! And with a wild
lunge of my loins I penetrated
into an unforgotten child.
Snake within snake, vessel in vessel,
smooth-fitting part, I moved in her,
through the ascending itch forefeeling
unutterable pleasure stir.
But suddenly she lightly flinched,
retreated, drew her legs together,
and grasped a veil and twisted it
around herself up to the hips,
and full of strength, at half the distance
to rapture, I was left with nothing.
I hurtled forward. A strange wind
caused me to stagger. “Let me in!”
I shouted, noticing with horror
that I stood again outside in the dust
and that obscenely bleating youngsters
were staring at my pommeled lust.
“Let me come in!” And the goat-hoofed,
copper-curled crowd increased. “Oh, let me in,”
I pleaded, “otherwise I shall go mad!”
The door stayed silent, and for all to see
writhing in agony I spilled my seed
and knew abruptly that I was in Hell.
>>7884000
My what wondrous trips thine OP has wrought
Doth ye think that this man be the tripgod we sought?
Bought they were not
As I jot this post will I have got the dubs I have thought?
that first poem was good
Have you ever done fanfiction?
I wrote a Warhammer 40k story when I was about 13.
>>7880422
Writing a fallout story in Canada.
>>7880422
I've never understood why so many people do, but what I really don't understand is the people who are so deep in the fandom that they actually read them.
Which is better /lit/?
Necronomicon is a nice edition which feels good to read and looks great on a shelf. Not sure about the other's content but the cover looks like shit senpai.
>>7892760
The one on the right.
>>7892811
Both are shitty editions
Necronomicon contains so much of Lovecraft's mediocre work. It doesn't deserve the fancy binding.
The BnN edition is almost good, but does not compile his collaborations, some of which are good, such as the two about sneku peepil. There's also no analysis, making it hard for a newcomer to dive into him.
Id go with the BnN one.
This is my favorite short story. What is yours?
It's not a short story and it's shit.
/v/ based shit
I've never read much in the way of short stories outside of English courses, I'll admit
Though probably Araby. A fantastic story that I've only grown appreciation for over the years that continues to amaze me in new ways when coming back to it or reading new criticism on it.
New bookshelf thread: no Tolkien/GRRM edition
1/3
2/3
3/3
1/2.5
Should I buy the Paperwhite? If yes, should I buy it with or without special offers?
>>7888387
>falling for the amazon cuckindle meme
I like mine, but it lacks the romance of a real book. It's nice that you can go practically catatonic with it. No awkward positions for bed readers. Oh, and get the back light unless you read with a lamp over your shoulder.
>>7888408
All right. What's better: a Kindle with or without special offers?
Do you ever get strange stares in public?
Are there any song lyricists with literary merit?
Whoo.
I don't exactly know if you're asking if they're actual authors or whatnot, but check out The Decemberists' album The Hazards of Love.
It's a concept album with a really long, beautiful story and songs to match. Just reading the lyrics is like reading a Shakespearian work. Go for it.
>>7887298
song writers are poets