/lit/ - Literature

>>6832322

>tfw you liked the lotr movies
>tfw you tried reading the book and it's kind of boring

>mfw I'm the protagonist in The Double

Just graduated

>mfw I realized analytic philosophy is a troll

>tfw you feel like any degree but STEM is worthless

>tfw you finally realize you only like the idea of being an author and not actually writing

>tfw the more you read the more uncertain you become
>tfw everything just seems to become more and more meaningless

>tfw finished the histories a weeks ago
>tfw couldn't tell you the best part because i have forgotten most of it already

>tfw 800 book backlog
>tfw read an average of 10 books a year
>tfw I will never finish all these books
>tfw the list just keeps getting longer

>some qt nsa agent in Washington thinks I'm a pleb

I let my dad use my kindle, honest

“'Oh, Willy,' she said. 'You're all eaten up inside.'”


hold me, /lit/

>>5474076
>Get his by some heaviest and most unique feels felt in whole live
>Clever verses are the only thing that are on my mind
>Cannot actually put anything on a paper because I am an illiterate hack, never written anything beforehand and only started to read not too long ago
What the fuck do I do now?

>tfw my fiance is way more read than I am
>tfw when she teases me for not speaking Gaelic and Ancient Greek
>tfw she laughs in my face when I told her I read Krasznahorkai in translation

>tfw i was too dumb to even contribute something of worth to this piece of crap

I just want to be a good writer ;_;

And I, my mind in turmoil, how I longed
to embrace my mother’s spirit, dead as she was!
Three times I rushed toward her, desperate to hold her,
three times she fluttered through my fingers, sifting away
like a shadow, dissolving like a dream, and each time
the grief cut to the heart, sharper, yes, and I,
I cried out to her, words winging into the darkness:
‘Mother—why not wait for me? How I long to hold you!—
so even here, in the House of Death, we can fling
our loving arms around each other, take some joy
in the tears that numb the heart. Or is this just
some wraith that great Persephone sends my way
to make me ache with sorrow all the more?’

Are there any authors or books that can make up for having no father figure?

>250,000 word thesis due tomorrow
>still browsing /lit/

How do you read poetry /lit/?