/lit/ - Literature

>>15973393
>>15973781
>cant read 800 pages per hour
lmao never gonna make it

>>15652990
No
Discernible
Talent

you are a little man, OP

You are tasked with choosing a book that came out in the last five (5) years for admittance into the canon.

Which do you think is worthy?

>look mom! I posted it again!

>Keats > Blake > Coleridge > Wordsworth > Shelley > Byron

>>7037799
No, that is fucking stupid.

>whaaaa /lit/ doesn't let me post my casual to extreme racism that the other boards have forced to adopt

>Slam Poetry

Leave this board ok thanks.

>>3978105
"My dear, I don't read "books," I read literature. If your interest is serious, I'd advise you to start with Homer and work your way up. The Lattimore translation is preferred. Good day."

I was a sweet person before our universities yielded to supposed social benignity and chose texts for teaching largely on the basis of the racial origin, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnic affiliations of the New Authors, past and present, whether or not they could write their way out of a paper bag.

>>3847798

>irony

>>3843647
that kid does a pretty good hemingway

strong misreading imo

Hey this went over pretty well yesterday so I think we should try it again. If you're like me and bored on a Friday night, might as well give it a shot.

Flash Fiction: Famous opening authors edition. So just roll first, and then start with what you get and branch off from there in any direction you want.

1. Call me Ishmael
2. It was a pleasure to burn
3. A screaming comes across the sky
4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
5. Mother died today.
6. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man
7. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
8. This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
9. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
0. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
Dubs. Anon, light of my life, fire of my loins.

>>3604876

It doesn't even matter what you mean by that OP, we're not here to do your homework, go back to /fit/!

He didn't "rape her." She accused him of putting his hand on her leg. She was really hammered and puked in the sink and then Harold Bloom peaced the fuck out and told her she was a skank who couldn't hold her Amarillo and questioned whether she even read.

He has read everything he claims. But he doesn't have any new ideas, so he tends have some pretty narrow taste. He's right when he says a book is good, but not necessarily right when he says a book is bad.

Hamlet had an Oedipal complex? Freud had a Shakespeare complex!

Bloom doesn't really explain this, but there you go. "Shakespeare evades Freudian reduction"

>talk of highbrow fantasy
>not one mention of Gene Wolfe

So if I love a girl, and this girl is just a bunch of organs and cells, do I love a bunch of cells?