>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies
>Bad Opening Lines Anonymous 04/04/16(Mon)18:03:19 No.7885828▶
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies
>>7885828
>in media res
Disgusting.
>>7885838
>googling infinity
>>7885828
"who's there?" (Hamlet)
"I am" (Infinite Jest)
was this planned or is it just a coincidence?
>>7885852
10 pts to griffin door
Its me, Ishmael.
>>7885852
well in my fanciful framework of mind u take all as intentional
soooo ya??
>>7885852
cool
>>7885828
Uh,. Mods?!
>>7885852
Whoa
>>7885852
>tfw you noticed this but kept it to yourself
>>7885852
somebody explain this
>>7886533
are you retarded?
>>7885852
Nabokov would be proud
>>7885852
This is literally spelled out for you in the Dave Eggers introduction to the book.
Holy shit this board really doesn't read anything nowadays
>>7886585
>reading introductions
>>7886639
>not returning to the introduction after finishing the book
>>7886585
> /Lit/
>reading
At our best days we are goodreads
Hamlet opening: who's there
IJ: I am...
>>7886711
Whoa......,
>>7885852
BRAVO DFW
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>>7886711
Hamlet opening: who's there
Ulysses opening: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan
what?
>>7886780
>literally
i wish people would stop misusing this word
LITERALLY
>>7886784
how is that a misuse of it?
>>7885852
Moby dick:
Call me
>>7886784
I wish you would be less autistic and capable of accepting the fact that language changes and 'literally' can now also mean 'figuratively'
>>7886823
>translation
>>7886823
usually criticisms are sufficiently vague that they're able to be accepted (e.g. stranger 1)
but stranger 2 is just bafflingly misguided
>>7885828
>It wasn't an interesting night yet, but it was about to be soon.
>>7886823
poor form. you could at least choose something from shakespeare to shove it up red's ass
>>7885828
>How much suffering does it take before you lose your grace?
>>7885828JIBUN WO
"I still get nightmares."
God dammit I'm reading this book now and I'm really enjoying The Navidson Report but every fucking time Truant starts writing it's so unbearably try-hard and edgy that I wan't to skip it but I can't bring myself to skip part of the narrative. I don't want to hear about his fucking wacky paranoia anymore
>>7885828
>Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.
Worst opening line to any literary canon ever. Dropped the entirety of western literature then and there.
>>7885868
lmao
>>7888446
haha i really fucked up the formatting
>>7888404
What book is this from?
>>7886585
>uses shortcuts
>calls other people lazy
In all seriousness, anon, I understand that I introductions and further reading are all valuable resources, and it is imperative to direct all resources at your goal, but I think of this as chewing your own food vs having it chewed for you. I mean, who do you think will remember the taste more?
I know I have no reference for how you personally made that connection, and I acknowledge that it is better to make it anyway you can than not making it at all, but do you have to be such a dick up there on that huge cock pedestal?
>sing goddess, the wrath of Achilles.
>>7888446
Who translated that?
>>7890456
Seriously
>translations
>>7886823
There's something terribly sad and banal about that.
Hwæt
>This is a story about a little girl and a game that she didn't want to play.
Beginning of a horror story I'm working on. Ligotti-esque mood piece. Trying to convey the emotional experience of a nightmare.
>Muse, tell me about the time Achilles got really mad
>>7888446
A good part of this text is entirely made up.
Andra moi ennepe, mousa, polutropon hos mala polla / plagchthè, epei troiès hieron ptoliethron eperse.
Ennepe moi, mousa = Tell me, Muse,
Andra polutropon = the many-rused man
hos plagchthè mala polla = who wandered very much
epei eperse = after throwing down
ptoliethron hieron troiès = the holy city of Troy.
For some reason, the author considered "stronghold" a valid translation of πτολίεθρον, which is a lengthened form of πτόλις, doric for πόλις, city.
I don't know where he got the "proud height of Troy".
>>7885828
It's in response to the first line in Hamlet.
Kinda bland if you don't notice it at first though, desu.
>>7890507
Also there are heads (yorick) and bodies (many) in Hamlet.
>>7890516
also Hamlet mentions "the insolence of office"
Mother died today...
>>7890557
Is this from Faulkner?I remember something about "a-walking a fur piece".
>>7890562
Aujourd'hui maman est mort. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas.
>>7890575
Something something télégramme...
>>7890575
>mort
Was his mom Bruce Jenner?
>>7890595
Mortimer Jenner
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Yo man! Spoiler!
>>7890557
>not Maman
Go to start do not collect $200
>>7888426
I just put it down about 50 pages from the end because I'm not willing to skip over shitty parts but also not willing to read complete shit.
So yea, I had enough of Truant
>a screathing jumps across the sky
>This revision of what was previously called Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Alternate Edition was written with three objectives in mind.
