/lit/ - Literature

you do all know that western civilization cannot be further written within, right?
that the novel died with the end of progress and beginning of decline in the 20th century
that a novel is not meant to express vague feelings but to move a civilization through another civilizational ladder rung
that if you aren't actively trying to invent a new civilization, it's pointless to write anything

>The Great Gatsby is an American Classic and there is nothing I can do about it

>By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
>We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
>For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
>How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
>If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
>If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
>Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
>O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
>Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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bomb corporations
bomb the government
not in minecraft either

rejected by another publisher. It's the sixth one