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>Write a university girl a love letter
>She thanks me but rejects me on the grounds that she was still heartbroken over her breakup
>2 years pass
>go back to my inbox to read it, expecting myself to cringe
>Nope, still good, still absolutely amazing
Fuck...wasted words on basic bitches.
Here's another one
>Write girl a love sonnet in apology
>She...
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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.
Any good books about someone going from poor, friendless, and unlearned to rich, beloved, and erudite?
My diary has the latter half in spades to be frank familia
>>8175329
Gatsby, old sport
>>8175329
who is alger?
When's the last time you wrote someone a letter?
I wrote a letter to my pen pal yesterday.
yesterday.
it's hard to shake off the feeling of artifice.
>>8175304
kill yourself
Do any of you cultivate an aesthetic in your life? A conduct of some kind?
I'm a real life Byronic hero. Everyone thinks so.
>>8175285
Mostly gentle male homosexual love
I make sure to be consistently pathetic and defeatist
>Start with the Greeks
>Resume with the Romans
What comes next?
>>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
Post your favorite excerpt from the book you're currently reading.
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.
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.
![crusades[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Yu1jNFY.jpg "crusades[1].jpg")
What are some good books about the crusades?
>>8175256
Like, historical?
yeah, non-fiction
I JUST WANT SOME COMFY BOOKS
NOTHING TOO DIFFICULT
NO PHILOSOPHY
I JUST WANT TO FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
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.
Pode relatar, anão.
>>8175177
What?
>>8175177
Terá valor ou cortesia?
>>8175180
Você é o anão do outro fio?
Stuck in my feelings, wonder what you guys think of my first real attempt at poetry.
I believed you.
I did the thing I’m still not sure how I did,
But I did it for you.
You said it was what you needed, and I thought,
Maybe what I needed too.
Was amiss I to unbind them?
These festering wounds underneath my essence.
These ones I sealed away and shunned from existence.
Because now you’re gone, and I fear they’re too much for me to handle.
They’ve tasted the air, and grown stronger.
While I fear I’ve only grow weaker.
They’re...
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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...
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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...
What should I read to prepare for Delillo, Roth, Updike, Pynchon, etc.? (And what order is best to read them/their works?)
What historical/literary context is important to understand these guys?
Is there any start with the Greeks meme when it comes to English literature?
>>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
Hey /lit/, what is a good, safe-ish major that I should choose as my second major besides English? The dream is to become a fiction writer eventually, but I don't want to be financially fucked in the future, because I would feel bad since my family's not that well off and is barely able to pay for my tuition in the first place. English is my real passion, but I feel obligated to also study something "safer," hopefully without having it disrupt my literature pursuits too much. I've been thinking about Economics. Engineering, from what I've heard,...
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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.
Hey, /lit/, what's the funniest book you've ever read?
>>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.
What's in a suicide note, /lit/? I don't want to just make pithy quotations. What's the writer's way out?
>>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.
I notice an increase atheist attacks on Dostoevsky on this board. Now, I could be wrong, but this feels like part of reaction against the increasing "Christianization" of 4chan, particularly this along with /pol/ and /his/. Only reason I say this is because these attacks were not common a couple of years ago.
Is there any truth to this, or is this just a bad year for Dostoevsky for other reasons?
>>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.
>>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.
