/lit/ - Literature

>>18247884
>read entire thread
>now I want to masturbate
Why

>>12572807
Is that what you're into t-chaser? You seem way too fixated on it.

GIVE ME A FUCKING PILL THAT MAKES ME LESS LAZY AND STOP PROCRASTINATING

>"and so, to stout Labor's iron lullaby, the blacksmith's infants were rocked to slumber"
WHY DOES A RANDOM, PASSING SENTENCE IN MOBY-DICK OUTCLASS TENFOLD ANYTHING I CAN WRITE
HOW DID MELVILLE DO IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>tfw wasting my life doing nothing and too lazy to do anything about it
>tfw mfw ywn be fulfilled

>never read moby dick before, know barely anything about it, especially about how the story goes beyond Ahab killing himself to try and get the whale
>introduction tells me the whole crew dies as well

Hey guys I have this drama audition in a couple of weeks and one of the jury members told me it'd be sweet if I wrote something myself.
Now the play is on Homer's Odyssey. Now I need some help. What do you think of this script?

If it isn’t Odysseus!
Tell me, why have you come on this … never mind, I already know why.
…
It has been quite the adventure, hasn’t it? A long one, maybe a little too long… You know Penelope is really losing her patience!
Oh, my… have I upset you? Don’t be, I haven’t even told you what Telemachus has found himself in. I’ll greet him in your regard, don’t you worry.
…
Alright, let’s get back to business since I know you didn’t just come here for chit chat. Want to get home? That’s going to be very hard, champ. Poseidon’s onto you and he isn’t going to give up that easy! You’re lucky to have Athena on your side, and if it wasn’t for your moron crew you would have returned in a matter of weeks.
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Now it is almost impossible for you to return, however if you get real lucky you will get as far as Thrinacia! Harm won’t befall you if you restrain your crew and yourself from eating Helios’ cows. Of course I don’t expect you to succeed but, then again I can’t expect. I only know.
...
You’re a lucky fella, aren’t you? I would have expected you to roam here several years ago - didn’t think you would even get out of Troy… Syke, I can’t expect anything anymore, I know it. Really a bore, not being able to predict. Ah, you wouldn’t know. Hihihihi, hahahaha, hohoho. I haven’t laughed this hard since I saw Agamemnon’s expression!
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What? Are you leaving already?! Shame on you … You stay with Calypso for years and rush in and out of here! Well, you were welcome, vale!

>tfw Americans will bicker about the best way to do arithmetic as if it fucking matters when there are a bunch of people in the country who unironically think that students shouldn't have to learn algebra and need to be explicitly taught how things like interest work because they can't understand that math classes are for learning concepts and reasoning skills and not for memorizing how to do 50 types of word problems

Guys help me finish my essay, It's 3 words about "what I learned in boating school" and it's for tomorrow oh fuck

What's the general rule of thumb when you're using a phrase as an adjective?

Like for example "Remember that beaten-by-life comedian that was in that show?"

Is it correct to hyphenate like that?