/lit/ - Literature

>mfw I have

>mfw Quentin hearing that Henry Sutpen could protect his sister's "honour" and kill Bon in Absalom, Absalom! was probably the final humiliation that forced him to suicide

Seriously, the entirety of Absalom, Absalom! could be another chapter of The Sound of the Fury, so much that it tells us about the Compsons in their recounting of the Sutpens.

>gleaned that even taking a Lit course would be a waste o' my time, I'm well read. Let alone major in it...
>sneak into a Milton 200 course per the invite of a cute English major girl
>prof mentions Aquinas in the first minute
>oh damn, sounds good to me
>ignore his doctrines as Milton applied them in Paradise Lost
>leads a team through their own presentation on some section
>I look up from annotating a copy of La Commedia, the part where Dante is applying Aquinas' philosophy
>"OK class, so how does the relationship between Adam and Eve in Paradise compare to the 21st century relationships between men and women?"
>The girls take over the discussion, tossing in their clichés everywhere
>Oh yea, it's like Twilight because -
>Keep on reading about il poeta and Beatrice while shitstorm uprises
>Leave class
>Girl who invited me approaches me
>"So what'd you think?"
>I suggested she read Milton on her own, outside of class, and take notes independently, she'd learn more than sitting through a whole semester of this class
>We quit talking for a while
>Asks me later on why her other English prof would ask her to write an essay on Paradise Lost as an entire work without reading it to its entirety
>Tell her it's not cheating, nobody writing on a book can analyze every line, not even those who annotate books while reading them to their entirety analyze every line
>Switch subject to Keats' negative capability
>I respond that yes, I've read that Eliot used a negative capability on the paradox of good/bad for The Waste Land, though the important parts are what he implies about love in the poem
>She says that The Waste Land wasn't about love
>mfw