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>>7683787
I think by "on a square yard of space" he could be referring to an infinite and deep sense of ennui, hopelessness, being bored with life and knowing one will go nowhere beyond that "square yard" which is their life.
"A foretaste of eternity" is his glimpse of this future of hopelessness, seeing life spread bare before him as an ultimately hopeless endeavor.
As for the quotes, I have no idea.

>>7683787
If I had to take a guess, he's feeling claustrophobic, that the walls are closing in and there's nowhere to go or hide. I think he knows about the years of boredom and misery to come, and recognizes that he can't do anything about it.

>>7683787
It's definitely a sense of anxiety, perhaps the crushing knowledge that he will never be anything but himself, and that maybe he cannot change what he wants to change?

it's shit, and you're shit

pleb garbage

>>7682989
but I love sandwiches.

arfter i started reading him i started drinking almost every day and got fat

He's an okay writer and he got me into better lit, but dont read him

Yes those were the only English authors ever. No, Twain had no interest in fantasy. Adventure and whimsy just wasn't his style.

Read some books, then try not to ask stupid questions. Unfortunately, your knowledge of literature seems to be so poor that you are actually telling us that England has only 5 writers and they all write fantasy. Surprise. How about Dickens, how about Emily Bronte, how about the fucking rest of them?

If I had to live in England I'd daydream too

>>7685460
Earliest translation = best translation
always
no exceptions

>>7685462

lol

'no'

>>7685462
this is the dumbest opinion in the world

meh, other ones have been funnier
5/10

>>7685265
>the only thing that can alter the good writer is death
and brain damage

and paralysis

and comas

and ego

and money

and having kids

he can't keep getting away with this

No?

A little bit, but don't tell /lit/.

You couldn't check the catalog?

you study literature because you're a pseud who is obsessed with seeming intelligent and insightful because you're a lit major but the programs aren't at all just reading classics but actually force you to engage with literature in a way you never thought you had to -- as a global phenomenon -- so you post about how the leftists have killed literature study and then you drop out

>>7685214
you're being ironic but I can't tell if it's a good thing to read only classics in lit class. as you said, it's true that classes teach you new ways to look at literature, even if some of those interpretive lenses are misled or irrelevant.

Bloom's

>>7685165
Any reason?

>>7685167
Bloom

>>7685142
In my opinion it's the best fantasy series out there. It's huge, it's complicated, and you really need to get into a different mindset for reading the books. Still, I can't remember the last time a book made me feel this fucking emotional.

It makes a lot of contemporary fantasy pale in comparison.

>>7685142
Not really. Feels like fantasy RPG tabletop sessions with powercreep. Few ideas, no depth.

>>>/his/

:^)

go to the fucking wiki you pleb

>>7685069
I don't know anything about a wiki.
It should go without saying, but eat a dick.

>>7685066
Either Justine or Juliette by D.A.F De Sade.

They contain a lot of rape and violence.

fuck off with polls

kill yourself

that list needs help

>>7685022
Not sure what psychological issues bother you so much about polls, but I'm going to go ahead and see what the rest of /lit/ thinks.

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He used to be, at least ;_;

>>7684995
RIP

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>>7684987
OH SHIT I GET IT. Kinda like the lit version of pic related.

>Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
>“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
>I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

I really enjoyed Candide.
He actually had a wicked sense of humor.

>>7685098
>tfw you're Martin
>but no Cacambo exists to prove you wrong

>>7684811
Reported :^)

Was it for Sarah?

>>7684874
Matthew, is that you?