/lit/izens, Which piece of literature made you more alive? I'm

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call me a pleb all you want

>>9378267
How come?

The Odyssey.

I've been writing Neo-Classical poetry since. It's so beautiful.

I write for myself, and that's what Homer has taught me.
Life is beautiful, and so is literature.

I love you guys.

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>>9378273
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>>9378272

Vonneguts empathy towards humanity moves me greatly. The book is littered with beautiful yet naive optimism and incredible quote snippets. The yeast quote is also one of Vonneguts most brilliant moments. The whole story just makes me feel very comfortable and calm.

The fountainhead by ayn rand.

>>9378326
:)

>>9378326
What is the yeast quote? Or is it a Yeats quote?

>>9378273
>I write for myself, and that's what Homer has taught me.

but Homer didn't "write" for himself, he performed it for audiences...

>>9378261
Shakespeare.

>>9378273
>he doesn't know Greek
>he still claims to have "read" the Odyssey
Your poetry's shit too

>>9380167
That audience ended up being me, and now I am inspired to write for myself.

>>9380173
I do, though. I have a Masters in classics

Maybe Douglas Adams.
The technological future hides potential promises nothing could match in any real way.

>Whitman
>Spinoza
>Tolstoy
>Ulysses
These are the ones that make me happy

>>9378261
Hunger games when I first was able to read- so 12th grade.. opened me up to literature

>>9378261
my diary desu

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This and Haruhi. Reminded me that books can be fun.
Of course I've re-read them in the original Japanese, before I get memed.

>>9380428

-_-

>>9380434
>willfully consuming trash

>>9378261
Bohumil Hrabal