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Almost done this book and.... i dont know what the fuss is all about. Can someone explain why P&P is considered a classic. I've also read Sense and Sensibility, and still feel like i've missed what makes Austen such a great writer

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Can I read this without previous literary knowledge on philosophy?

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Passed up a copy of L’Étranger (Matthew Ward translation) for this hardcover 1st edition copy of Infinite Jest today. Am I a bad person?

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What are some book characters you want to be like

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Any good books about alcoholics?

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/lit/, I'm kind of tired of reading sad and dark books. I want something lighter, something that's good but which will actually cheer me up.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a comedy, but something that just shows a bit more about the joy of life

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I'm planning on buying
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
and
Murder on the Orient Express
on amazon.
Is there anything else you'd reccomend? I'm looking to get into some fantasy books, like the hobbit or LOTR if you know any good ones.

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so, have we decided what the best career for a literary man is, until he publishes a novel/has enough money to devote himself entirely to art? Something low stress, that pays decently and still leaves enough time and energy to read and write on the side

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How much have you written, /lit/?

I have about 30 short stories, five novellas, one novel and one half of another novel done in four years.

Still not published. End my life senpai[\spoiler]

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Can someone use Kantian ethics to explain to me why consensual sex between unmarried adults is/is not ok?

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>read Parmenides today

wot

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What's a book you never see discussed or mentioned on /lit/ that you would recommend to others, and why?

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how do i become a genius?

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As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
‘Love has no ending.

‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

‘I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

‘The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.'

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

‘In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

‘In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.

‘Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver’s brilliant bow.

‘O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you’ve missed.

‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.

‘Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.

‘O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.

‘O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.'

It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.