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>>>/blog/

>writes women "absolutely amazing" sonnets
>gets buttmad at being rejected, literally hates women

wow you're such a humanist

hopefully everyone else thinks as lowly of you as I do so you can go write another sonnet about getting BTFO on /lit/, faggot

>>8175354
>She uses quotes from my sonnet 2 years later in selfie instagram posts

Give us the quote she used at least. If you were a real man, you would post both of them so we can critique it if not this thread isn't worth anything.

My diary has the latter half in spades to be frank familia

>>8175329
Gatsby, old sport

>>8175329
who is alger?

I wrote a letter to my pen pal yesterday.

yesterday.

it's hard to shake off the feeling of artifice.

>>8175304
kill yourself

I'm a real life Byronic hero. Everyone thinks so.

>>8175285
Mostly gentle male homosexual love

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I make sure to be consistently pathetic and defeatist

>>8175284
Fap to the French

>>8175284
stop reading based on geographical location.
By this point you should have a firm grasp on differing positions of philosophy.

Now you can just go absolutely ape shit and read w/e the fuck you can get your hands on.

try spinoza.

>>8175397
>geographical location

its more about the time period, faggot, when people say "start with the greeks" they mean the classics, not whatever modern shit greeks are putting out about how poor their country is

Often the one most plagued with lust is the one most capable of restraining it. The monk and the philanderer are likely to be the same person.

>>8175264
Stoner, where Lomax is at the housewarming party and talks about growing up with his deformity. "...shame which had no source that he could understand and no defense that he could muster."

there's a lot I like, but that's the shortest excerpt.

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He glanced at her and did not answer. Then he said, "I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-- and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette at his one expression.

>>8175256
Like, historical?

yeah, non-fiction

>>8175256
>>8175296
bump for interest

preferably different sides of the story.

in search of lost time is so comfy it will redefine your very definition of the word

>>8175193
kill yourself

Re-read books 1, 4, and 6. Those are the comfiest books in the series IMO.

>>8175177
What?

>>8175177
Terá valor ou cortesia?

>>8175180
Você é o anão do outro fio?

Not sure if trolling but ill entertain you. Its bad. Like fucking horrible. Read some poetry and try again. Stay away from abstractions for now

"One"

I can’t remember anything
Can’t tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I’m waking up, I cannot see
That there’s not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, wake me

Back in the womb it’s much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can’t look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I’ll live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, wake me

Now the world is gone, I’m just one
Oh God, help me Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, help me

Darkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

I love it, OP! Can you comment on and crit a similar poem by me, as we appear to be on the same wavelength?

There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, confusing what is real
This lack of self-control I fear is neverending
Controlling, I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
Without a sense of confidence
And I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take
I've felt this way before
So insecure...

>>8175104
oh my fucking god just read it, faggot

>post-modern
>historical/literary context

I'm having worried keks here m80.

>What historical/literary context is important to understand these guys?

gee i wonder

Check this thread

>>8174849

Also if you're studying humanities in the US, I'd advise you to learn a new language and move elsewhere.

Finance or economics will give you a good ratio of difficulty in major to job prospects. You can also chad your way through those jobs

>>8175073
Anything STEM senpai. It's not good for a man to make literature his career.

>>8175009
oh fuck off

>>8175009
I remember reading that and always imagining the dogs as tiny puppies all throughout the book.

Sideways at wayside school or whatever the hell it was called by louis sachar.

>>8175005
take a pencil and stab yourself in the neck

>>8175005
A man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up ones watch, since, together with the man, the whole work is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

>>8175005

Buy a tiny pistol and shoot yourself through the eyeball.

>>8174911
/lit/ has recently taken interest in Nobokov's opinions of others authors and, not having read anything by Dostoyevsky, they piggyback his unfavorable opinion of Dostoyevsky.

>>8174911
>>8174920

The only russian author people talk about is dostoy I don't understand what people are trying to make out, that's an honor in itself.

Out of all the russian authors from the 19th century on dostoy is what comes to peoples mouth, he's the murakami of russia but better.

>>8174920
>/lit/ has recently taken interest in Nobokov's opinions of others authors
That's been a meme for a while, but I don't think anyone takes it seriously. I further don't think that is the reason, since there a lot of posters are viciously slandering Dostoevsky as a person along with his writing, and Nabokov never did that.