/lit/ - Literature

>>2524000
Try Cormac McCarthy.

>>2522927
You forgot cunt you
Cunt; don't forget doggerel
Means a garroting

>>2522762
Charles Burns's work is always pretty consistent.

Blankets by Craig Thompson is also good, even though the story is pretty schmaltzy.

I've never been to the comic board, but I'm sure those two get brought up enough; I'm not really that into comics.

Scott Pilgrim was dumb and fun.

>>2521020
potentate
demimonde
filament
spirogyra
ojalá
circumspect
autopista
cryptograph
glasz
desafortunadamente
unction
uxorious
punctilious
bajaj
suction
adduction
obsequiousness
anisotropy
syzygy

Is someone trying to corrupt and poison our fair /lit/?

>>2517420
>Tolstoy awakens on his Texan dude ranch, the sun is low in the sky. He fries three eggs and eats them sunny-side up. Sophia comes into the screened-in porch, where her husband is silently watching the sun rise over the shrubland.
>Gonna be another hot one today, Soph.
>Mm.
>Gonna need ta get more rope from the shed yonder. Horses've been spooked since the heat lightning.
>Mm.
>Tolstoy takes a swig from the open brandy bottle kept at the side of the door and leaves as Sophia stares after him.
>The Silverton Sonata

>>2515379
Talk about dendrology for about 35 pages.
Then WHAM, a line or two about some shit about animals running and you're done.

>>2515174
Infinite Jest has a ghost in it.
>modern
Ehh...Hamlet.
The Changing Light At Sandover
Ubik sort of has ghosts.
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Sleepy Hollow, which is actually kind of funny
The Turn of the Screw

>>2515107
/diy/ and /n/ are nice too, if you're into that kind of stuff.

>>2515006
Because some people pursue it as an area of study, and need to be taught in some way.
Development of theory, development of arts, rearing of another generation of lits.
The "you can learn it all on your own" argument is perfectly valid, but a teaching environment complete with correction and guidance, etc. pretty much streamlines the whole process and homogenizes the literary community and guarantees at least something like a standard of excellence.
Strictly speaking, they aren't necessary, but they serve a purpose.

>I've realized that I have no passion for literature, and I feel like it's, on the whole, vapid and pointless.
The other side of the coin is that humanities students are always stereotyped as saying that the sciences are dull or pointless. It's true for them if they think that. For society? No. But for them, sure.

OP, why would you pick this to be your Ihateit career path? Pretty much everything else is more likely to happen/pays better/is more respectable.

You might as well be a surly, miserable cardiologist or something. Nothing's funnier than a wisecracking surgeon.

>>2514963
Then be an engineer.
The world doesn't need another shitty English teacher.

>>2514635
10/10

>>2512273
Haha, oh yeah. Tolstoy.
TS Eliot didn't have a very high view of Hamlet, either:
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html

>>2512051
>You want a internet based version of the eschaton or what? This will go S A C P O P.
REDCHI standing by.

>>2510832
>= _______?
Weird west.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_west
It's more of a catch-all term, and there's a larger sci-fi crossover contingent, but.

>>2510732
Satan, satan, version 2
Stan the man, and faggots, too
Gallows built of wood and steel
High noon, raccoon, Rococo's zeal
And zeitgeist, Stealers Wheel
Dirty cop and feels for years, weasels
Wheezing, wheedle, ekans, nidoking
Eking out a bleak existence in safari
Spirogyra, Clytemnestra, festering
Wounds, coonhounds, goons, dead crooners
Johnny B. Ghoode in tha hood, homie
Cronies be how they should, bidding wars
In discount stores, dead Borders
B&N next on the chopping block fo sho
So-so sad, spread eagle cross the block
Hobo rap, playing craps with Phil behind
That natty coat store
Lost all my money and got big-nig
Gang-raped, too

>>2509546
>Also, from what I have been able to read it is pretty awful..I mean, the craziness does not translate into genius.
>In the Realms of the Unreal is a 15,145 page work bound in fifteen immense, densely-typed volumes (with three of them consisting of several hundred illustrations, scroll-like watercolor paintings on paper derived from magazines and coloring books) created over six decades.
Yeah, that was kinda the joke. Damn you Behemoth, with your chemistry.

>I like the band though.
The Vivian Girls, you mean? Yeah, they're pretty alright. Seem like cool people from your story, too.

>>2509533
The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

>>2508718
>Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77~Brahms
>violin-abuse-core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3EMYebPJTs

>Symphony No. 3 'Organ'~Saint-Saëns
>agony&ecstacy-core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bV11c91D4k

>String Quartet no. 7~Beeth-oven
>relatively-upbeat arpeggio-core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwOufFcKs

>Banshee~John Abercrombie
>trucker-moustachio'd guit&strings late-fusion-core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKhrKB4mr0

>>2508806
That's great, just got it a little bit ago.

>>2508787
Mah nigga. Sometimes I wish I lived in Seattle.

>>2508803
I <3 Jeff Mangum.

>>2508731
http://www.theonion.com/articles/grad-student-deconstructs-takeout-menu,85/

>>2507992
Nah.

>>2507967
Palahniuk

>>2506647
>flowers, flowers errywhere

>>2506636
>Shakespeare
>lovers
You forgot about the first 126.
>dat rose

>Dante
>Beatrice

>Eliot
(again, and in allusion)
>multifoliate rose
>Beatrice
>Vivienne
>And the lotus rose, quietly, quietly
>alluding to Buddha and Christ
>you now realize Eliot had a thing for shirtless guys
>Jean Verdenal
>lilacs

Flowers, flowers errywhere.