/lit/ - Literature

>>18910130
once u get that sinking feeling
then uknow what its about

>>17424766
coprophilia

Is Villanelle of the Temptress a good poem?

Are you not weary of ardent ways,
Lure of the fallen seraphim?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Your eyes have set man's heart ablaze
And you have had your will of him.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

Above the flame the smoke of praise
Goes up from ocean rim to rim.
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Our broken cries and mournful lays
Rise in one eucharistic hymn.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

While sacrificing hands upraise
The chalice flowing to the brim,
Tell no more of enchanted days.

And still you hold our longing gaze
With languorous look and lavish limb!
Are you not weary of ardent ways?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

>What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?

- James Joyce, Aquarius

Joyce knew what was up.

>>14772534
I grew up thinking I was dumb. Didn’t do well in school (big daydreamer). Drifted along in life, always unhappy and angry. I used to post on a forum and started talking to this guy. Unbelievably cool and smart. One day he PM’d me about something and we started talking.

I asked him one day for a book rec and he suggested ‘Portrait of the Artist’. He said to me to look for the “womb-like’ imagery in the opening paragraphs. That really appealed to me. It never occurred to me you could read a book like you look at a painting (I’m good with art stuff).

Anyway, I wrote back a whole thing about my thoughts and little things I picked up I thought were clever (for instance, Joyce uses the word ‘dark’ something like four times in the same paragraph roughly but every one is different usage).

He then replied to me and seemed really impressed by my observations (he’s now a writer). After that, we spent a few years where he would give me a book (Hamsun, Coetzee, DFW, Roth, a whole lot), and always a ‘key’ (so something to riff off, I guess). These are the happiest interactions I’ve ever had with another human being.

We then stopped talking and I was at a loss. I felt so lonely, and more than that it was like something was opened in me that I didn’t want to shut down again. I suppose that my opinion mattered. Anyway, I signed up for some correspondence university courses. Every essay I wrote it was like I was writing to him again which made me so happy. So I did really well; first time in my life I started getting distinctions.

I then thought it was maybe possible I could do an actual degree. I was interested in religious studies (not religious, just find them interesting) but it doesn’t have a problem solving component so I thought ok, I’ll try law. Called the uni i wanted to go to (not a great one but as good as I thought I’d get) and they said my marks were too bad from school so I had to go back to adult education college.

So, I found a college and did the year and landed up with 45/45 distinctions and 3* A levels. Fuck me. At this point, they’re like you can apply to the best universities so I googled them (seriously, I didn’t know any) and applied. I had to do the LNAT (law aptitude test) but, again, I just approached the day I did it like I was talking to him again.

Anyway, I scored massively highly on the LNAT portion and I guess my essay must’ve been good, too, because two weeks after the test, I got an offer from one of the best universities for law in the country. I graduated last year with a 2:1 (upper class) and now I’m starting my LPC training. My future is certain to be pretty secure. Every essay, every exam I ever wrote I wrote like I was talking to him.

So yeah, literature changed my life. It’s so strange to think how it would’ve turned out if he hadn’t DMd me that day. I will love him forever, and James Joyce has a massive place in my heart forever more, too.

how do you think James Joyce would think of the internet's bastardization of human communication with the likes of kek, Tit or GTFO, leetspeak,etc; also, perhaps his thoughts on the evolution of langauge since his death

How do you imagine Raskolnikov?
Me like pic related

>>11137333
You could publish what you deem to be "true literature" and use Facebook/instagram to target people who have certain levels of education in certain fields, and have interests/follow pages related to true literature (like the James Joyce fan page on Facebook or something). You could sponsor podcasts with related audiences. You can send a copy to influencers like professors and critics or whoever and have them review it. Maybe you serialize it in a digital format.

Maybe you straight up release it for free (or donate 100% of proceeds) if you're serious about it being "true literature", art, and are not in it for the money. Donate copies to orphanages, schools (maybe with a study/lesson guide for teachers, just to get them to say "yes" more easily to adding it to their curriculum), even prisons if there is a demand.

>"After Flaubert the best work in novel form has been done by Tolstoy, Jacobsen and D'annunzio."
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

What does /lit/ think of this?

Also, who the fuck are Jacobsen and D'Annunzio?

>greatest writer of the 20th century
*blocks your path*

>>10390936
Joyce wasn't a Chad, I think, but fuck if this portrait isn't inspiring