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rate my routine /lit/
Sounds like you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Rate my description of your mom's Friday night, OP
>BBC: A, BB
>BB: A, BBC
>BBC: A, A, A, A, A
>BB: A, A, A, A, AAAAAAAAAAAAA
>BBC: AAAAAAAAAA
>when /fit/ goes reading
Who are the best authors from your country?
1. Faulkner
2. Twain
3. Emerson
4. Melville
5. Hawthorne
Thomas Wolfe should be on that list
>>7961232
OK Kerouac.
>>7961229
>2. Twain
(you)
Poetry thread? Original poems?
I'll start.
stormy seas
relaxing sound
3 hours
her liquid red, wet
in the slit and warm
around my curved sex, and
moaning for release
punch me
punch me
>>7959439
I'm not so sure about the scansion; maybe it's just the use of a numeral? It's chill though, if a bit clichéd.
I broke my hollow world
And petulant tears dripped down its curved surface;
Tidal waves that didn’t distinguish between
Fake true blue waters
And verdant lands (and the vermillion deserts where plastic vegetation cannot grow).
It had fallen out of its orbit-stand in my bedroom
Solar system shattered, and it fell out of
23-degree-tilt-spinning-round-with-my-magnetic-shove skies
Of countless unstars not glittering like gravel.
And into my small hands. I extended it to my brother’s (he’d already got the whole world in his bigger, calloused hands).
He took the globe and spun it like a Globetrotter
Balanced it on his nose, barking like a seal
He threw it to me and I did the same; my sad hiccoughs turned to gleeful guffaws as we tossed Earth back and forth.
Hurricanes billowing across Beirut; Berlin; the Red Sea and the Dead Sea; Antarctica.
Pissed off pedestrians were smothered underthumb and flocks and herds and shoals of endangered animals got scuffed into extinction when I dropped it.
The Sun sets on our side of our Earth and it goes black but we go on.
Both sides of my own Earth go black
But it gets no rest until we tire of this game and open it up.
A tectonic bisection:
cutting Africa in two with sharp colonial boundaries
rendering a Mexican border wall obsolete
leaving tourists stranded on the wrong hemisphere (with impotent souvenirs).
We found we could hide sweets inside.
rain
phone
autism
Post opening lines of the next great American novel.
>>7956343
"When I was six years old I asked my friend's dad to wipe my ass."
Cuck Mulligan clucked lewdly.
Call me cis male.
At what point did postmodernism go too far?
It will never go too far.
The ancients were much bigger degenerates
At least the boy isn't a forced eunuch harem servant
>>7953971
pretty much this. It can't go too far.
Is he misinterpreted?
For you
I don't know but man that's one fucking amazing mustache
Yes, but given how grossly he misinterpreted the Bible (to the point where I don't believe he ever read it), he deserves it.
What does /lit/ think of this?
>>7957996
NGE is supposed to be at the bottom. Past the San Andreas Fault.
>>7957996
>tfw you've sort of hit level six with the burroughs and mcelroy
bow down
What is the literary equivalent of this informative chart?
>>7957518
What are all of these
>>7957527
motion pictures
Cervantes > Shakespere
prove me wrong.
>>7956236
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.
Q.E.D.
>>7956236
Cervantes was a one-trick pony. Same joke for 900 pages
I won't because I can't because Cervantes really is better
>Divine Comedy
>not funny
>The Birth of Tragedy
>Tragedy was never born it has always existed
Guh
>>7952339
The real comedy is our existence.
>Infinite Jest
>finite
Rec me some good non-numale books. I'm looking for something Un-PC with lots of traditional, healthy masculinity
>>7963930
Reading is gay you faggot
when did Last Man become nu-male?
>All hail the greatest of all poets.
>All hail the supreme master of metaphor.
>All hail the greatest language craftsman of all time.
Shakespeare: 400 years of glory.
ehh, he's bretty gud
his sonnets aren't that good.
>>7954283
>>All hail the supreme master of metaphor.
He truly is. Opening at random a volume, I see this:
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowelled bosoms—this foul swine
Is now even in the center of this isle,
Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn.
not even a famous passage, and yet how powerful it is
>david foster wallace you have only read four books in the first sixteen weeks of the year
How many books have you read so far this year, anon?
8
>tfw it's been long enough i'm re-reading
feels comfy like when you find an old sweater you thought you threw out but it's still here and it fits as well as always and smells slightly of your exgf who still loves you but has to live the hell of fucking other people because she lives elsewhere now and you put it on and have a happy day knowing life fulfills you. i think it's about six
if you don't make 52 books a year you're pretty much a non-reader
Am I likely to be banned (permanently) from /lit/ should I begin pasting my entire six-part debut memoir here, which at this point totals over 600,000 words?
I have reached a point in the process of submitting my work whereby I am convinced that the hierarchy of the contemporary publishing world has conspired against me, even if they themselves are unaware of having done so, in refusing to acknowledge the profundity and purity of articulation in my work. Already I have been accused of threatening an agent who mistook my eagerness for hostility, one who took offence at my submitting the same work several times under different pseudonyms, and have been otherwise dismissed either reluctantly or frankly and without encouragement both by literary agents and their pimps in the publishing establishment.
At this point I am considering offering my work for free to the readers of this board in the hope that at least a small group of precocious and emotionally sound individuals will appreciate my profound genius and Christ-like vulnerability.
Is it worth it?
I really do feel I am trapped in a maze without there being a guarantee of either an exit or a reward of some sort at the centre. My mommy has yet again entered one of her moods and has been attempting to gain access to my bedroom all day in the hope of persuading me to go to work with the husband of one of her colleagues who I gather works at some sort of construction site. Despite her being aware of my sensitive disposition and my aversion to physical labour she seems more insistent than ever that I should fulfil my alleged social duties.
>>7953738
>mistook my eagerness for hostility
lol what the fuck did you do
>took offence at my submitting the same work several times under different pseudonyms
that's standard. if they don't want to publish you, they don't want to publish you. you're a fucking idiot if you thought they wouldn't notice, and all you did was piss them off
>offering my work for free to the readers of this board
>Is it worth it?
what you should to is take a creative writing class and develop a thick skin, because the odds that the publishers are right and you're writing is shit far outweighs the odds that you are some sort of misunderstood genius
just know that if you post your thing here, you can't sue anybody for plagiarism/copyright infringement and if you're serious about getting published you'll have to come up with something else
Go for it.
Calling for a pre-emptive permaban
What's the Top 5 look like for Japanese literature?
Like, who are generally considered the greats?
>>7961870
Kind of helpful, but that still doesn't tell me who the five or so brightest lights in the Japanese literary firmament or whatever are. That's really the info I'm looking for.
>>7961883
Yukio Mishima is probably the "best" author they've had in the 20th century. Haruki Murakami was considered for a Nobel prize in literature (based on rumours I've heard) and the Tale of Genji is kinda like the Japanese Illiad afaik
