http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html

Try Saki short stories for comedy.

Try Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo or The Willows for spooky.

Try Descartes' Discourse on Method on earlymoderntexts.com (good ease-of-use translation) for a short and foundational philosophy thing.

why are you reading

do something to make senpai notice you

he'll be balls deep in your boipucci in no time

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME BY PROUST

>>8230974
>4,215 pages
I would be searching the time I lost reading it for sure haha xDD!1

is it a meme or are you serious? did you really finish it? tell me about it.

>>8230980
he's serious. the entire thing is about remembering. i finished combray, it was good, but i'd rather finish it when i can read it in french.

>>8230950
You could do worse than John Keats. Sounds good aloud, regular rhythm - will be good to recite to the woman in your life, perhaps?

To Autumn


Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel;...
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>>8230950
>the most
dropped

>>8230950

The Great Gatsby. Pretty much every sentence is beautiful and essential.

"Marcy" 5) A young man (Marcus) on the UTL Homeworld (ruled by the Feminist Party government) goes out clubbing (illegal for men to be outside of certain zones without a license) dressed as a woman (illegal camoflauge, also Marcus is an illegal genome type because his appearance makes him passable as a woman, all 3 of these things he can be "retired"/executed for) has to experience the adrenaline rush of a single night out on the town, but is hunted by one of the Government "Good Hunters", enforcers who retire such illegals and halt such illegal...
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"The Queen of Attica" 9) A young woman from the UTL relocates to (placeholder name) Attica (a colony) with expectations of male gratification and attention everywhere she goes, holding onto a sexual fantasy in which she gets attention from the many, many men of Attica (who are not bound by the anti-male idealology of the UTL Homeworld) but has a slow, progressive mental breakdown as she is constantly told how awful her personality is, and how she is constantly rejected by everyone she meets, ending in a complete psychotic break when she literally THROWS herself into...
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>>8230934
I like the Wendigo idea.

>>8230881

Literally who?

Pynchon. not even meming

>>8230885
It appears to be Rasputin

Any coming-of-age novel ever

Whiplash

"Settle down, settle down," Ms. Shell says as she walks into the classroom. I glance around and see my fellow classmates doing the same. Barely anyone had been talking.

"So, let's get started. Did anyone not read the assignment?" Nobody raises their hand. "Good. Then we'll get right into it. First of all, why do you think the author begins the story with a dream? Yes, Paul?"

"I think it's because a dream is the easiest way for a magical being, such as the goddess in the story, to communicate."

"Well,...
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I forgive you.

While he did fuck everything up in the isle just so he could eat ham, Ralph was the biggest fuck up. So, yeah.

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>>8230859
jack was cute!

CUTE!

>>8230853
>tfw post from a phone
>tfw no filenames

>>8230858

(its Blood Meridian)

yeah

Why would you put a comma there?

>>8230836

If a person is moved to create some sort of literature, artwork, or other material as a consequence of their depression, or even of their upper-middle class "sadness", and even if it happens to be a very boring or trite form of personal expression, then the statement in OP's image is literally false. And it is clear from the context that "creatives" and their ilk are meant, and not simply depressed people who do not manage to create anything.

>>8230765
>Is this the single most titanic fucking sentence ever written?
yes

>>8230765
Gotdam

The pusher man

>>8230763
/lit/ - literature

>>8230763
>.jpg
the MADMAN

Stoicism is just western Buddhism where you suppress your emotions till the whole nation ends up with a suicide rate the size of japan

Fahrenheit 451

>>8230690
Use fine sandpaper on the edges of the pages to remove the top layer of grime, which may be contributing to the smell.

Then open the book and check for loose dirt, insects, fleas, tobacco, chocolate, biscuit crumbs, whatever, and remove these.

Gently go over the front and back cover with rubbing alcohol to remove surface stains and bacteria from people who read on the toilet, etc.

Seal the book in an airtight bag along with something fragrant for a few days.

(optional) Put the book, in a...
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>>8230897
But if there is actual, visible mould - just chuck it.

it's pretty depressing how many authors I only hear about because they died

I only read Salter because he died recently and he's amazing

Goodnight sweet Prince Geoffrey.

I had hoped that there was still more to come from him. I read through his collected works all through last year, astounded that there were still people producing poetry like it. I love his grumpy persona, I loved his bitching about Carol Ann Duffy to the press. I loved the prophetic drive and anger in his work. He seemed to pick up speed later in life and I really wanted more. And now he's gone.

>>8230700
I sometimes find it depressing to read him because his poetry is so obviously above anything that I will ever be able to write.

The collection I bought contains all of his poetry up to 1992. I couldn't find other works of his, because I live in Brazil, and the dollar is very expensive now.

Have you read his critical writings? A Brazilian poet once said he was the best poetry critic of our time.

His YouTube interviews are very funny. He seemed to be a wonderful, wonderful person.

I'd self bump but apparently the self is a spook... So... Something bumps, anyway.

>prose

>>8230645

Recently read this, thought it was excellent.
You might just be retarded.

fucking great

I don't understand why the Jews are drinking milk in Death Fugue. Surely the Germans wouldn't have given them milk. It just seemed poorly researched.

>>8230545
Don't like him, too disjointed, not aesthetically pleasing in most cases. J. H. Prynne and maybe John Ashbery could be considered similar.