/lit/ - Literature

>>10047729
And Vance only got into the Merchant Navy by memorising the eye test, which is exactly something Cugel or Kirth Gersen would have done. I'm also surprised he would stick his neck out on this, when his fiction is full of protags who value discretion and inscrutability. This suggests it was a very well thought out and heartfelt opinion.

Apropos of nothing, was Joe Haldeman's critical ascent down to his service in Viet Nam and some kind of collective guilt by peers and Hugo Judges?

>>10048049
No but he has been on my radar for a long time. I chose to get reasonably upto speed on Arthur Machen when I might have chosen Blackwood in another instance.

>>9717720
What kind of witchcraft anon? The pagan kind or the Shakespearean,or the Emo teen kind or the Satanic or the Crazy dark Mexican shit or some other tribal voodoo type shit? Honestly /x/ might be able to help more if you're really trying to get deep into grimoires and the like.

>>7174995
bump.

I lay dying upon the earth with the sword in my body, and raised my
hands to kill the slut of a murderess, but she slipped away from me;
she would not even close my lips nor my eyes when I was dying, for
there is nothing in this world so cruel and so shameless as a woman
when she has fallen into such guilt as hers was.