/lit/ - Literature

>>20733676
Based. Reminded me of when I was the cashier and a cute and overly hyperactive girl with soft hands paid by grabbing my hands, putting the money in my palm and then she physically closed my hand around the cash and cupped her hands around mine. She then proceeded to talk very energetically at me for the next twenty seconds while still clasping my hands, excitedly gesticulating with both of our hands as she spoke, tenderly squeezing and affectionately rubbing my hands with her thumbs. No joke. At one point we even interlocked fingers. Twenty fucking seconds. I was utterly speechless. I didn't process much of what she said beyond her complimenting me on the size of my hands, I was too flabbergasted by her sheer boldness and how surreal the situation was. She then just walked out and I never saw her again. I don't even think she was trying to be intimate, it felt like I was a cat or some shit

>>20675527
A lot of the writers he didn't like he either disliked their style (he was an aesthete) or thought they were too black and white, "rank moralists." Basically, Dostoevsky focused on suffering too much for him and it got on Nabokov's nerves. An author like Chekhov was more palatable because he wrote a much wider range.

>>19887996
I bought a used textbook and there was a warning note from a tax collection agency inside, I'm guessing it was the bookmark.

>>19861047
Quigley actually dispels a number of conspiracy theories in it particularly ones from before WWII. Did you even read the book? One of the few things that I suppose is a conspiracy is the followers of John Ruskin all forming clubs that founded many of today's dominant news media. Quigley didn't accuse them of some schizo conspiracy, merely that they abused their positions (such as in South Africa) as trailblazers in the 2nd wave British Imperialism.

>>19790700
>never married
Based Catholic femcel. Reading Wise Blood right now, already read all the stories in a Good Man is Hard to find. Besides the eponymous short story, I recommend the River, Good Country People and a Circle in the Fire. Still need to read her other novel and short story collection, guess I'm halfway through the bibliography besides the letters. With a bit of knowledge in theology or reading the Bible a few times, the messages in O'Connor's stories become very clear. I really like how she twists Biblical lessons to come not just from the mouths of fools but the villains, such as Circle in the Fire where the three boys are likened to Shadrach, Meshrach, and Abednego, escaping from the "fiery furnace" to consume the protagonist who then realizes that all she took pride in wasn't hers to begin with and that God could at any moment take it, implying her possessions are a false god like Nebudchadnezzar's statue.

Honestly, anyone that likes O'Connor should read Eudora Welty too. Welty had a different style but it's from an older perspective (born 1909 compared to O'Connor's 1925) and she wad particularly fond of Chekhov iirc. I'd say it's less grotesque but can still be really dark and dramatic, and she was far less pedantic. The Petrified Man, Flowers for Marjorie, Lily Daw and the Three Ladies and the Wide Net are some good ones. Some of the women she portrays are just downright manipulative and terrible especially in Asphodel, but in a Piece of News and Clytie have some extremely timid, suffering women. Essays are pretty good too.

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