/lit/ - Literature

>Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears... It was Argos, long-enduring Odysseus' dog he trained as a puppy once, but little joy he got since all too soon he shipped to sacred Troy. In trhe old days young hunters loved to set him coursing after the wild goats and deer and hares. But now with his master gone he lay there, castaway, on piles of dung from mules and cattle, heaps collecting out before the gates till Odysseus' serving-men could cart it off to manure the kings estates. Infested with ticks, half-dead from neglect, here lay the hound, old Argos.
>But the moment he sensed Odysseus standing by he thumped his tail, nuzzling low, and his ears dropped, though he had no strength to drag himself an inch toward his master. Odysseus glanced to the side and flicked away a tear, hiding it from Eumaeus, diverting his friend in a hasty, offhand way: "Strange Eumaeus, look, a dog like this, lying here on a dung hill... what handsome lines!

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>tfw on chapter 71 of part 2
holy shit bros, i don't want it to end, this has been the most fun reading experience i've had yet

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https://youtu.be/4RRe40O6QKU

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Beautiful. Someone better save this, something about this particular oatposting is quintessentially /lit/

"Maximilien," the Count said, "the friends whom we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts, and that is how God wanted it, so that we should always be in their company... The spirit of both lives in me. I consult them when I am in doubt and, if I have done good, I owe it to their advice."

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true heroes

>Dumbledore will never be your own personal teacher
>Ginny will never be your gf
>Molly will never be your mother
>Hermione and Ron will never be your best friends

Why even live?

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Beautiful.

Post more.

>mfw Priam and Achilles' meeting in the Iliad

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>Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.