/lit/ - Literature

>>23191286

>Aluminium
>Oestrogen
>Paedophile

>>23155365
This is “Glue Two Quotations Together” day, is it? Sounds good.


Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.

>>23052125

>“ballyhoo”

>>23041153
This.

Prose translations are OK, sometimes. Poetry translations are almost never anything but awful.

>>22926574
Someone dropped his wallet down a storm drain.

>>22407028

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must want to get married.

>>21869991
yes

>>21545175
Almost like a wound trying to heal, it wouldn't stay open.

>>21488174
Gentle comes the test of erudition that has been anticipated.

>stake out little library
>follow portuguese woman home without being seen
>find out where she lives
>take all the CDs and knickknacks to her home
>throw them against the doors and windows so they explode and shatter all over the place
>repeat until she stops

>Is it ok to try and strike [...] women in particular?
Yes

>>21020412

>Fill this form in
>Fill this form out
These mean the same.

>Write your notes up
>Write your notes down
These mean the same.

>Screen the movie
>Screen the girls changing their clothes.
One means show it, one means conceal it.

>Dust the shelves
>Dust the cake with sugar
One means remove the dust, one means put the dust on.

>The stars are out
>The lights are out
One means things are visible, one means they aren't.

Why is English so playful and whimsical?

BECAUSE IT CAN BE

>>20605682
>thesis: man who reads
>antithesis: man who doesn't read
>synthesis: man who pretends to read, aka /lit/ anon

>>20305908
>Competiton rating the hottest babes of the year.
>It's called the "looker prize".

>>19313199

>be me

>have read nothing more literary than the instructions on the backs of packets of Pop-Tarts since 2003

>survive and indeed thrive on /lit/ with a combination of cheap verbal sleight-of-hand and inspired guesswork, deducing salient facts about the works under discussion entirely from other posts in the threads I am purportedly leading

>eventually become so addicted to the thrill of danger I make a point of never entering an argument if I know anything whatsoever about the author(s) in question

>"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them."
— Friedrich Nietzsche