/lit/ - Literature

>>16878028
go back

How sad will you be when Bloom dies?

>>9158211

She's not really a child though in the strict sense of the word. Some younger girls can appear quite grown up, and it's not like your penis knows what an age of consent is.

Yeah it's illegal and wrong but so are a lot of the things that happen in books so I don't know why you're being such a moralfag.

>>9014485

>buying anything in e-book form

Is generation Y so attention deprived that they need a device with a plastic screen for everything, even the most basic activities?

>>8713842

The answer is, of course, Yale.

Harold Bloom aside, the English dept. is legendary. In my experience it's the only real well-known literature department, even among the smart set.

>>8717773

The creative writing program is top notch, but that's where you get your MFA after you've been out there hacking away for a while.

>>6610775
>expending physical energy that could be funneled into mental energy for reading
>exercising any muscle that isn't your brain
>not spending your life laying motionless, devoting your every movement purely to literature
>not becoming a corpulent, corporeal embodiment of literature

By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

> more than one person wrote/edited/perfected Shakesqueer's works!

Wrong. Great works of art do not occur in collaboration. Shakespeare invented the human condition. He is the smartest, most genius person in the history of the world!

>>4188089
> Borges
> traditionalist

lol you mean the guy who wrote non-stop tirades against Nazi germany and all Argentine Hitler fan boys?

The guy who loved Jewish mysticism? The guy who invented deconstruction?

>Yeah, I'm an alumni of Yale.

If your favourite book doesn't have a creased spine, worn pages and notes in the margins, it's not your favourite book.

Books are meant to be read, not collected like mint condition anime action figures.

Was there ever a genius writer who went to grad school or studied creative writing?

I can't think of a single one.

inb4 hurr durr higher education has changed over time. There's no genius writer who spent more than 4 years studying in the humanities.

You're not as good as Shakespeare

>>3819967
FUCK.

I'm pissed now. Same thing happened when I told my friend about a short story I was working on and he was like "sounds just like a Ginsberg poem." I was pretty proud of it too and I thought it was a really original idea.

> tfw so belated

>>3332487
>if I had to vote for one novel by a living American, it would be "Blood Meridian," ... because "Blood Meridian" is the ultimate Western. ... You get an extraordinary landscape. You get an extraordinary visionary intensity of personality and character. You get a great vision, a frightening vision of what is indeed something very deeply embedded in the American spirit, in the American psyche. It is as close, I think, to being the American prose epic as one can find, more perhaps even than Faulkner ... I think you would have to go back to "Moby Dick" for an American epic that fully compares to "Blood Meridian."
Stay pleb.

>>3285734

>i checked a single list of critically lauded /lit/ and just started casually buying shit that was on it, can i be a literati now u guise? please

you have good picks but this is so cookie cutter and generic. in fact i think i even remember saying this shit to you in the past. why do you keep posting your boring ass /lit/-by-numbers shelf all the fucking time?

>>3255293

>Brett Easton Ellis

>>3214490
Neckbeard literary critic or Neckless literary critic?

Choose your weapon.

>>3178802
bible is literature
so is on the origin of species

>>3168409

>cleche

Just leave.

>>3143832
if you haven't come across any fairly well-reasoned secular arguments for christianity you've read pretty much nothing haha. read a book beeeitch

What's the deal with Harold Bloom? I watched an interview of him and he didn't look or sound like a human being.

>Yoni's lyrics equal to Joyce

/mu/ you never fail to reach new heights of embarrassment, bravo

>>3047189

>seldom

This word doesn't mean what you think it means.