/lit/ - Literature

>>11807941
>tfw no anne gf

>>10067194
>tfw no one saved her in some sort of time machine

>>9597195
stealing from the other thread in case you guys missed it
>Keats was convinced that he had made no mark in his lifetime. Aware that he was dying, he wrote to Fanny Brawne in February 1820, "I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd. "

>>8958799
I guess I'm giving spoilers but I feel like all of you should have read it by now, but if you really care don't read.

Anyway, when it is revealed that Joseph Grand had caught the plague and he burned his manuscript, and in particular this passage, and it's been a few years so I might be misremembering, where he's looking into the window of a store and is reminded of his wife or something like that and he starts crying. I don't know, it just kinda hit me. I don't think any other book has ever made me cry, but that part just got me. That was like the worst moment of the plague before the people defeated it, so maybe it was the whole book making me feel hopeless, or maybe it was because Grand was such a kind, innocent character. Camus probably intended both, I would guess.

Anyway it was all okay in the end because he got better. :)