/lit/ - Literature

>>14644332
Honestly, same. I just don't mention it to a lot of people.
My professor clowns on me for it.

>>13671019
I love Faulkner. I think he and Melville are the true great classic American writers. I also love him because he dropped out of college and got Ds in English, and wrote As I Lay Dying while working as a janitor, so it gives me hope, however falsely, that if I just try really hard I too can write something pretty good someday.

I want to read more of him, hopefully everything he wrote eventually.

Also he was aesthetic despite being a manlet. Great hair and good facial hair.

When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.