/lit/ - Literature

>>19057562
Thanks for the explanation, I guess. I'll have to get back to you regarding Lacan, anon.

Will this be the new /lit/ meme? We've had tradcaths, ortho-larpers and Guenon/sufi-posters. Will (un?)ironic taliban LARPing be the next big thing?

too much happiness by alice munro

>>13402714
I once overhead some african junkie hobo threatening a nicely dressed indian man in the library, saying that if he ever saw him in the library again he'd kill him. I told the librarian then went back to browsing Strindberg

>would that it were so

>>9974845

>>9963151

Is Aristotle's Physics necessary before his works on Metaphysics and The Soul?

>>9573310
>to the plot

yeah haha

>>9474909
>tfw been called a good writer but I don't understand the terminology of the grammar I use

>tfw chemistry postgrad and all my peers are emotionally stunted positivists

If only I could stretch the night

I would take to sleep with such delight

If only I could stretch the night


I would seek and ponder the events of days light

And enjoy timeless delight

If only I could stretch the night


A month to opine the day

And a year to plan the fight

If only I could stretch the night


If the clock were broken

And yet still right

An eternity to be thankful

And to let go of all things trite


To be loose of the hurry to bed

And To be untied from the mornings bite

Oh if I could only stretch the night


Perhaps as death lives in me

The chance I just might

Exists in that long goodnight

A chance to hold times hands

And be blessed with an eternity of light

And the times I'd have before bed

Would outlast my spite

And spring me cleanly

Into next life

May time my sins overwrite

And hell hold its flame from my sight

And give me just a little more time

To turn my soul white


If only before my heart stands against me

I could set it right

If only I could stretch the damned night.

post yfw Job, the oldest book in the Bible and one of the oldest books in the world, casually mentions dinosaurs

>>8830445
>I'm worried his book might be garbage
I haven't even read it but based on what you've told us I can almost guarantee you that it is.

>>8679758

it bothers me when someone tells me they read a book but I later find out they listened to the audiobook and didn't physically read the book. maybe i'm reading too much into it, but it makes me feel like they want me to think they're the kind of person who reads books but isn't willing to put in the effort.

what's worse is when they try and tell me that listening to the audiobook is the same as reading the physical book. if its the same, then why are you ashamed to admit you listened to the book?

>>8594845

>>8541951
>29
>Grey bureaucratic administrative government job where I have access to the private data of millions of people
>1984
Kek

>>8540733
>walking through bookstore with female friend
>see Crime and Punishment
>say "hey I just finished that this week"
>who wrote it?
>one of my favorite authors. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>she says nothing
>...Dostoyevsky
>she looks at me funny
>Fyodor. Dostoyevsky.
>anon why do you keep making that sound at me
>mfw

>>8526220
>self-inserting with incest

>>8511354
Mum?

>>8492871

>character has glowing red eyes

>>8326206
Still haven't bothered to learn IPA.

>>8321791