I'll start:
It was a lonely day at the White House for Hillary. Bill Clinton had yet another “appointment” with his intern, and Hillary was getting tired of it. She didn’t know what was up with Lewinsky, but whenever the young intern helped Bill at a diplomatic event, for example, Hillary always thought that there was a little more helping going on behind the scenes. She couldn’t blame him, her husband had a very busy work life, and due to the often confidential nature of these meetings, she wasn’t ever allowed in. Of course, as much as Hillary hated to...
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Still incomplete
I turn my head around and see behind
a barrage of uncounted centuries
congesting in their endless file the course
of history, pages of the almanac,
extending to the furthest reaches of
recorded time, where paper frays and frames
the forms of kings, and mounds of plebeian dust
ride the backwards-floating wind of time.
In the primal bush in golden sunshine robed,
perspiring blackened topsoil underneath
to cool the crib, the little feet of lizards
now long returned to loam and dirt would drag
their little bellies...
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Giotto’s Campanile Beckons
With a pounding heart I lie in my bed,
Thinking of any possible way
To end myself in my dark and empty room,
I look through my drawer
And try to discern if the quantity of eliquid in my possession
Is enough to stop my heart,
The bathroom is calling me,
I will lie on the tiled floor and rub
The sweet glycerine nectar all over my nubile torso
And hope for a speedy demise,
I hope that I don’t experience the unpleasantness of vomiting,
For my stomach is filled with the oily pastas of the mensa,
I...
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>>8021398
Part II:
Tomorrow I will avoid my usual actions,
Upon my rising from this cursed bed
I will go straight to Giotto’s Campanile,
I fear that I will not finish the meditative march
Up its winding marble stairs,
The fear will exponentially grow as I ascend,
The faces of those that
I am about to cause distress
Are mentally projected on the stone walls
Surrounding the staircase,
WIll I become a suffering tomato
Upon the final plop?
Not a chance,
This plan...
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I feel my pulse beating fast.
In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
is this worth reading? i was wondering..
>>8020844
Yes, it is worth reading.
Got turned down for a job at this shithole about an hour ago
>be me, 1st class degree in English lit
>go into town
>see staff wanted notice in store
oh sweet i was looking for some part time work
>ask for manager
>he starts quizzing me on what books I read
"well mainly classics, I love Russian and German lit but my taste goes way beyond that"
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kill yourself
no, your autism cost you a job.
>>8020397
rude
Any tips or important things to remember for a senior taking the AP language test tomorrow?my teacher says she believes in me, but I wanna be sure
>>8020253
Don't be a tard on the multiple choice; don't spend all your time writing your thesis; make sure you answer the prompt; don't bother being particularly poignant; lastly, on the rhetorical analysis essay, which, I've noticed, is what students have the hardest time on, instead of just listing off rhetorical devices and strategies, always--ALWAYS--provide an actual analysis.
>>8020253
Don't show up
>>8020296
Thanks bro! how did you do on it before?
Modern or Post-Modern?
she cute
it's a shame all poems are bad
Medieval.
>>8020241
the bifurcated middle
what are the best books about third reich /lit?
>>8020237
Eichmann in Jerusalem is pretty good.
>>8020258
This and the Evans Trilogy.
Shirer if you want the opinion of someone on the ground. Guderian's autobiography on the military.
>>8020237
The holocaust did not happen.
Most of books related to the third reich are political propaganda.
Set the record straight this was a socialist,nationalist and very populist party. It almost merged with the national socialists at one point to put it that way and had the same idealists of that party. and anti-semitism was VERY strong at europe at this time even with figures you wouldn't expect at all and a core part of socialism even,it has always been strong in europe and has only dissipated very recently...
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Lately I have run across a few books and poems with mad characters and I want more.
Here's my list:
1. Bottom's Dream for Midsummers Nights Dream
2. Tom a Bedlam
3. Child of God - McCarthy
4.The Lost Scrapbook - Dara
5.The Recognitions - Gaddis
Give recs please
>>8019788
Define 'mad caracter' ?
>>8019788
the alice in wonderland
>>8019796
have you read the works I listed? Someone who makes no sense, or is heavily obsessive, the old definition of mad
Why do people like Shakespeare? he seems pretty mediocre.
>>8019763
>>8019763
yEAH DUDE, i TOTALLY AGREE. Ayn Rand is my favorite author too!
>>8019763
'Thou' and 'thee' get every female's panties wet. Go on, just try using them instead of 'you' when chatting up a chickadee. Throw in some 'verily's too and you'll be set.
What should I read before reading Gender Trouble by Judith Butler?
Problem Child 2: The Novelization
>>8019506
I've heard she was heavily influenced by Foucault.
>>8019567
i heard that foucault was a girl
What was the deal with the ending? The story literally just stops. Am I missing something?
>>8018998
turn to the first page
>>8018998
Emotive arc >>> narrative arc
Also the story is finished, you can read about it online - although it's mostly theories and they are very speculative.
>>8018998
Big Dave always liked to leave people hanging.
ITT: Life changing books.
I'm partial to Wallace Wattles myself.
>>8018972
This meme is forced and not dank. I feel violated looking at this.
Would DFW like him?
I dont know, who is he, and is he sincere?
i hate you, you are destructing /lit/
>>8018362
A famous Russian tennis player.
Besides The Man who Would Be King this is the only book I've ever just stopped reading abruptly.
It's so boring. How is anyone expected to gain anything from the experience of reading if all your doing is forcing yourself through the drivel to be able to say you "got it".
There's a line between challenging the reader by making them really examine what's being written instead of being distracted by prose and just creating a bland read and this book definitely crossed it.
/lit/ is usually right but you guys really bungled this one.
It has a really nice prose, don't you think?
I also thought it to be very cozy.
>>8018265
you're shit
you're objectively a shit person
you know nothing of the minds of others and have no wish to know
plottist cunt
>>8018265
>being distracted by prose
What?
Literally what is the point of "post-modern literary techniques" when Delillo can convey all those sentiments and themes in simple, non-meme language?
The book was garbage, friendo.
This is the kind of shit that gets laughed at by Pynchos. Short declarative sentences about fake disaffected New York life. Fuck off.
poolillo is poo my pooey friend
Seriously though, anyone read it yet?of course not...
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>>8018137
First for gay, rape and incest
>>8017997
It was Elantris actually for some points.
DELET THIS!!!!!!