/lit/ - Literature

>I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone!

Can’t say I blame him desu

>>9969838

>Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned.

Which writer is the greatest humorist?

Mark Twain? Hunter S Thompson? Douglas Adams?

Who is the greatest humorist of them all?

>"To me, Poe's prose is unreadable -- Like Jane Austen's. No, there is a difference. I could read his prose on a salary, but not Jane's"
>- Mark Twain

Jesus Christ...

>This man was a gigantic racist, backwards thinking and grossly overrated
The only thing they're even close on is the last point, and that for the wrong reasons. I've stopped reading supplementary material on him because it's so often off the mark.

>>9159313
top one looks like mark twain. that's all i got.

How do you overcome the feelings of "I haven't read enough to be able to write, i am not educated enough."? Other types of artists don't seem to suffer from this. Also, having a job make it a lot hard to read AND write constantly.

>>8556870
>a simple statistic evaluation
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>why are you even mad
I'm not mad. Do you think you can read minds? Maybe you should inform your beloved scientific community of these telepathic gifts.

Where do I start with Mark Twain? Huckleberry Finn?

>>8060090

I'd be flattered that the education system deemed my novel worthy, but frustrated that multiple generations will grow to despise the book (assuming they actually read it, which they won't) and that hipsters on /lit/ will call it entry-level for not being Finnegans Wake.

>dream of being a knight errant in armor in the middle age
>have the notions & habits of thought of the present day mixed with the necessities of that
>no pockets in the armor
>no way to manage certain requirements of nature
>can’t scratch
>cold in the head
>can’t blow
>can’t get at handkerchief
>can’t use iron sleeve
>iron gets red hot in the sun
>leaks in the rain
>gets white with frost & freezes me solid in winter
>suffer from lice & fleas
>make disagreeable clatter when I enter church
>can’t dress or undress myself
>always getting struck by lightning
>fall down, can’t get up
>see Morte Darthur

-Mark Twain

This guy was more than a century ahead of us.

How old were you when you realized Nietzsche was wrong?

ITT: Post your favorite Twain quote. I'll start.

>"One upon a time there was this big old nigger named Jim."

Rather than everyone start with the Greeks, shouldn't we start with books within our contemporary cultural heritage and work our way backwards? For example, if you are born in the American South, you should start with Mark Twain before intoing the Greeks.