/lit/ - Literature

You can claim to be well read, but you never did have a sister.

>is actually a beautifully structured and cohesive piece, full of breathtaking insight and beauty

>>2898220

>implying victory isn't an illusion of philosophers and fools

I guess it depends on your definition of 'boring'. People with boring lives can write great fiction. People with boring minds cannot.

"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

No American author has been able to craft language, character, theme and structure the way this man has - the most painfully bleak and beautifully ephemeral writing to ever grace the states. I can't think of anyone from this country or around the world who has even come close.

>>2738254

>>2636250
>Have not read it. Most people on /lit/ seem to like it, but I simply won't read something like that.

Please shed your infantile misconceptions. The book is widely considered a classic and a masterpiece. You're doing a disservice to yourself by avoiding it.

>>2622278

The word 'projection' comes to mind

>>2593328
That's modernism, bro.

Most writers leave a betrayal and bitterness in their wakes.

This man was a true southern gentleman and invented an entire countryside just so he wouldn't be. But most authors do.