/lit/ - Literature

Why did he sweat so much?

I would like to wish everybody (1) on the /lit/ board a Merry Christmas (2) and hope you all partake in the merry consumption (3) of eggnog (4)

1. Everybody being, of course, etymologically stemming from the compounded Old English ǣfre and Old English bodig, as the grammatical prescripitvists would have it.

2. Crīstesmæsse in Old English: Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, falling commonly on December 25th in Pagan tradition

3. In the dietary sense rather than that concerning νόσος

4. Holiday-themed drink containing the mind-altering substance that is identifiable in being any organic compound in which the hydroxyl function group is bound to a saturated carbon atom: most commonly CnH2n+1OH

should I pull the trigger on

- shhh: the story of a childhood by Raymond Federman
- you bright and risen angels by William t vollmann
- the origin of the brunists by Robert coover
- the Brunist day of wrath by Robert coover
- double or nothing by Raymond federman

>>8723478
>tfw DFW height
I should kill myself now.

>>8627637
oh fuug

>>8624017
>If you're an anime pedophile you'll probably like it

>>8604381
rev up those publishers, let's get this fucking masterpiece p r i n t e d

>already 80 votes

this list is gonna be S P I C Y

>>8464975
>49/100 = exactly half

this triggers me way more than it should. fuck u

>>8397327

How do i get my Korean wife to start reading?

>>8261677
>tfw no jailbait twin asian goofy qt sex slaves

>>8206200
>she will never dominate me

>>8183634
what the fuck

>>8177391
is this bait. pls respond

would you read a book about

a world where male children start to be taught from a young age to be flexible so they can suck their own Dicks. eventually an entire self dicksucking generation is born and they realize they no longer need women to be happy. so slowly women start going extinct and the men start creating more men with test tube babies. the book would follow 2 characters. both male. one character would be a normal guy living everyday life in a womanless world. the other male would be with the last vestige of women. the women have created there own hidden village deep inside the woods where they breed more women. male babies are only kept strictly to be used as studs. meanwhile the women live in fear of the killing squads sent out to eradicate them.

>>8106221
Fuck, this deific intellect dazzles my shit

>tfw orders from bookdepository still haven't arrived
Tomorrow is the day lads.

>tfw haven't had internet for a week

Time for some good old fashion DFW binge posting. Drop what you got lads!

>>7838576
>professor makes us read from standard textbook
>harps on how it's the authoritative textbook for the field, never been beaten
>even mocks students for not recognising passages to it (which was really weird)
>only makes us read parts of it though
>research paper time rolls around
>have an idea I like
>do painstaking, brutal essay on it
>ordering all kinds of rare books from around the country, getting people at other universities and in other countries to photograph/scan stuff for me
>have lots of fun but almost die
>cap off my whole paper with my argument, a solid formulation of the original idea that inspired me
>get paper back after final exam
>"A-. Good job, but [final argument] was a bit gratuitous. Scholars don't really make claims like that."
>calculate my grades based on his grading scale
>essay bumped me out of A+ and into A- final course grade, by a wide margin, guaranteed
>get final grades in, some time later, with an A+ in the course
>???
>few months pass
>reading that old textbook for fun
>page 80, chapter 3, one we never read
>my exact fucking argument, almost verbatim

>>7812685