/lit/ - Literature

>>3111508
That's nice.

>>3111503
And why did you give me this data?

>>3111496
True.
A novel is a really long poem which will undoubtedly lose it's rhythm, right?
Someone would have to be able to memorize a whole book if they wanted to be able to write it like a poem, right?

Did I phrase myself wrong, I wonder.

Has /lit/ ever considered that fiction might be a load of shit?
It seems like philosophy and scientific theses are a lot more valuable and could potentially be just as entertaining, since they relate at an end to the things in our life.
I mean, I still read fiction all the time.

>>2963162
>>2963164
This narrator shows no emotion.
Also, I'd like a background score to it, that would make it way better.

Fucking audio book.
Fucking book.
I'm not even paying attention.
Fucking book on-tape.
Fucker.

Oh lord, where do I begin. I don’t know how to tell you this story because it’s so simple that “story” isn’t the right word. I was born in the front passenger seat of a pickup truck doing seventy on I-9. At the hospital the doctor told my parents, “forget it, he’s dead. Blue-in-the-face and something’s weird with his arm.” My father lunged at the doctor, but male nurses held him back. I made it, obviously, but my right arm just hangs there from my shoulder like a sock. I learned to write left handed (my handwriting’s pretty bad) and I stuff my dead right arm into long sleeves and bury the purple hand in my pants pocket. People think I’m just really casual. At parties I freak people out by slamming my dead fingers in doorjambs or sticking my bicep with kitchen knives. I’ve been called “dead arm” and “Ahhhhhhhh!” My life got interesting last October when I got a job as a public speaker. When I want to gesture, I fling my meat-bone arm in a big arc by twisting my shoulder. At the bottom of the arc, the arm disappears behind the podium. No one has said anything. I’ve considered clipping the arm off and experimenting with synthetics, but I’m a bit of a luddite. This is my girlfriend, Sam. I found her packing acorns into a hollowed out tree and lured her home with birdseed. She lives in this aquarium here with my goldfish, Madonna. I had no idea squirrels could breathe underwater, but apparently no one thought to find out. Sam and Madonna hate each other. Once I found the furry one floating face-down on the water surface, but she was just playing.

[spoiler]I just finished reading The Hunger Games trilogy, and I have to say: it's pretty decent. Though there are parts that I saw coming, I feel it was balanced out with parts that just were impossible to predict.
Lots of plot twists, ect.

Overall, they're good books and I suggest reading them.</spoiler>

>>2250398
Strange and Norrel is a fantastic book.

A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

>>1716364
well my a-levels at the moment are Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Russian, so I may well go into something more scientific coupled with my languages degree.

Hopefully though I'll be able to do journalism.

I'm studying Russian and Japanese next year at university, I'm fairly sure I'm going to have a great life regardless.

>>1670878
I am Sam Vimes. I am my favourite person and the favourite part of my life so far is 'Men at Arms'. Vetinari is a cunt.

>>1019264
Generally, go browse soc.history.what-if.

Try some of mine:
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/3bfba34cad916064
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/613bf609e1eb35da
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/2aee061ddd882f99
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/b8e8e64b9151bd68
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/94d4c174e3e42195
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/e8e442e8ed44874c
https://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/msg/104668409bbac140

KONRAD LORENZ
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KONRAD LORENZ
KONRAD LORENZ

>Come on /lit/
>/mu/ tripfag drama is here as well

Fucking 4chan!

>>821231
implying I wrote it, I was saying I liked it.

>>821225
I didn't write that! that's a translation of Dante

>>821218
I don't know, I don't claim to be any kind of penman.
also, this is the best sonnet ever:
My lady looks so gentle and so pure
When yielding salutation by the way,
That the tongue trembles and has naught to say,
And the eyes, which fain would see, may not endure.
And still, amid the praise she hears secure
She walks with humbleness for her array;
Seeming a creature sent from Heaven to stay
On earth, and show a miracle made sure.
She is so pleasant in the eyes of men
That through the sight the inmost heart doth gain
A sweetness which needs proof to know it by:
And from between her lips there seems to move
A soothing essence that is full of love,
Saying for ever to the spirit, "Sigh!"

>>821204
Da-dunda-dunda-dunda-dun
Da-dunda-dunda-dunda-DUN
Da-dunda-dunda-dunda-dunda-dunda-dunda-dunda-DUN

I'm literally knocking this out

>>821196
grow up! seriously, I'd take 3 seconds of your time. you don't HAVE to say anything.

/lit/ I'm trying to write this sonnet, and the word beauty just seems so boring and obvious, can anyone give me synonyms for it? I'm at a block.
Thank you