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Was Ralph Waldo Emmerson the greatest American Poet?
>>7891047
Frost?
Whitman?
>>7891047
Bane?
Last thread hit bump limit.
I'll start:
How do you guys come up with plot ideas? I can think of certain motifs, scenes, characters, etc. for novels but motives, rising action, and just the main story really gets me. I mean what sets the entire thing into action. Really, just the conflict, to be honest family.
>>7878813
I think of two very unlikely people to meet and then force them into something really hot.
Speaking of.
Last thread I was discussing with an anon what kind of conflict I could bring into a novel about a devout young man who submits to a BDSM Dom and thus has his world view and beliefs tested.
Keeping that open.
>>7878821
Not everyone writes erotica, anon
>>7878853
Sex is simply the climax of two people becoming entwined beyond all expectation.
Conflict getting too heavy? Just fuck it out.
Those of you who earned degrees in literature, philosophy or lit: what are your jobs now?
I have a degree in philosophy and I'm a barista.
>>7893018
I model for mainstream clothes shop catalogues and websites
>>7893018
I teach literature to undergrads at a university. I also do academic research and publish articles. I also fuck around on /lit/ between meetings with my students.
What is the best cover of Orwell's 1984? You can consider this a general "Best book covers" thread as well.
im so gay for folio society
The Everyman's Meditations is one of my personal favorites.
>>7892606
Not a huge fan of that one in particular, but most Folio books look amazing. Shame they cost a fortune for 3rd world Europoors like me.
I'm a big fan of these covers for Gravity's Rainbow.
>>7892606
Folio do some really great ones too, I love the Dubliners cover
Just found out via /r/books that Jonathan Franzen has announced his next project: a six-volume novel based on his life, called "MY Struggle."
What we know so far:
>Franzen feels we need an American autobiographical epic in the vein of Proust or Knausgaard and that he's the novelist to take it on. "Those Knausgaard books are popular," he says, "but all the names of the places are weird. What if instead of reading about Geir and Yngve in Bergen you were reading about Jon and Dave in Boston? That's more relatable. Everybody can relate to that."
>Franzen has the entire book mapped out. The fifth book will be "the sad and serious one where I meditate on death, particularly the death of my good friend Dave Wallace."
>This will be Franzen's masterpiece. "No doubt about it," he says. "Forget Freedom. That was child's play. This is going to make Freedom look like complete shit. Get ready for it. I may even do seven volumes just to up the ante."
Are you excited?
I can't wait! Thanks for sharing, I am huge fan of Johnathon Franzen!
i never actually read anything by him, i just buy his books to cause Jennifer Weiner asspain
"irony was a mistake" -
Hey /lit/, I have given myself one week to live.
What book do you consider a must-read before departing? I'll be choosing 2 at most, depending on the size of the book.
I have read most of the canon.
>>7890655
talk to your doctor about SSRIs
read the sticky and fuck off cunt
The Old and New Testament.
Did he finish philosophy?
He never even started.
There he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?! Oh my God.
>>7889485
>he thinks it's a joke
>he's not been enlightened
Ahahahahahah. Oh dear. Oh dear m8.
What do you study, /lit/?
What do you study? Lit.
economics and mathematics
Photography.
Bad career choice. I mostly read philosophy nowadays, but at least I get to apply it/cover myself in chemicals.
What's the most influential piece of literature?
The Odyssey? The Mahabharata? The Illiad? The Ramayana?
The Fault In Our Stars
Gilgamesh.
dante's divine comedy. the man was a revolutionary in literature let alone art in its entirety
I need help /lit/ , I became obsessed with reading to the point of no return. The only thing I want to do in my life is to shut myself inside my room and read the countless books in my shelf. I don't want to talk to anybody or do anything else. I've got money to survive. Do any of you had a similar phase? Do any of you have the solution to my problem?
>>7893678
That's a great obsession.
Just read.
read this to snap out of it
>>7893678
How do I enter this phase?
What degree is more patrician, Classical Studies or English?
>>7891012
high school degree
Neither
Philosophy and Classics B.A. here.
Is being a NEET patrician?
/lit/, what is the most literary sport and why is it baseball?
Tennis, by far. And no, not because of le meme man.
>not road cycling
lmao@ur life
>not bullfighting
>not gladiatorial combat
Wew lad
>You will never as comfy as me
>pic related
Post your comfiest reading spots.
>>7887308
My word. that looks so comfy. Hopefully the lighting is ok
pic unrelated
I died. The sycamores
and shutters
along the dusty street were teased
by torrid Aeolus.
I walked,
and fauns walked, and in every faun
god Pan I seemed to recognise:
Good. I must be in Paradise.
Shielding her
face and to the sparkling sun
showing a russet armpit, in a doorway
there stood a naked little girl.
She had a water-lily in her curls
and was as graceful as a woman. Tenderly
her nipples bloomed, and I recalled
the springtime of my life on earth,
when through the alders on the river brink
so very closely I could watch
the miller’s youngest daughter as she stepped
out of the water, and she was all golden,
with a wet fleece between her legs.
And now, still
wearing the same dress coat
that I had on when killed last night,
with a rake’s predatory twinkle,
toward my Lilith I advanced.
She turned upon me a green eye
over her shoulder, and my clothes
were set on fire and in a trice
dispersed like ashes.
In the room behind
one glimpsed a shaggy Greek divan,
on a small table wine, pomegranates,
and some lewd frescoes covering the wall.
With two cold fingers childishly
she took me by my emberhead:
“now come along with me,” she said.
Without inducement,
without effort,
Just with the slowest of pert glee,
like wings she gradually opened
her pretty knees in front of me.
And how enticing, and how merry,
her upturned face! And with a wild
lunge of my loins I penetrated
into an unforgotten child.
Snake within snake, vessel in vessel,
smooth-fitting part, I moved in her,
through the ascending itch forefeeling
unutterable pleasure stir.
But suddenly she lightly flinched,
retreated, drew her legs together,
and grasped a veil and twisted it
around herself up to the hips,
and full of strength, at half the distance
to rapture, I was left with nothing.
I hurtled forward. A strange wind
caused me to stagger. “Let me in!”
I shouted, noticing with horror
that I stood again outside in the dust
and that obscenely bleating youngsters
were staring at my pommeled lust.
“Let me come in!” And the goat-hoofed,
copper-curled crowd increased. “Oh, let me in,”
I pleaded, “otherwise I shall go mad!”
The door stayed silent, and for all to see
writhing in agony I spilled my seed
and knew abruptly that I was in Hell.
>>7884000
My what wondrous trips thine OP has wrought
Doth ye think that this man be the tripgod we sought?
Bought they were not
As I jot this post will I have got the dubs I have thought?
that first poem was good
Have you ever done fanfiction?
I wrote a Warhammer 40k story when I was about 13.
>>7880422
Writing a fallout story in Canada.
>>7880422
I've never understood why so many people do, but what I really don't understand is the people who are so deep in the fandom that they actually read them.
