/lit/ - Literature

I love that picture of yours, OP. It's a dumb bitch that happened to become an icon because of one of those twists in media and politics and death, in a playground, in childish clothes, but showing her sexy thighs anyway. But she has that look in her face in which it seems she doesn't understand, not only the book but all else that is going the fuck on. And Ulysses, in that simple cover, opened in the last pages in a way that combined with her eyes seems as if she opened the book, read a few lines and then skipped to the end to see what she would make of it, but she can't even begin to grasp, it's completely alien to her. And Ulysses divides people up, not in good or bad or clever and dumb, but I mean, it's already a piece that among those who read may be taken as absolute crap or a fantastic piece, usually the later. And that difference is a reflection of the main difference between the modern and the classic. And Monroe is modern, but modern in the most shallow sense of the word, contemporary, but in a way that she wouldn't have been known if she was born 50 years earlier. It's not her merit, its society's. Society was modern, but she was not, she was just thrown into it. So there you get a sunny afternoon with nothing to do, this half-princess half-whore girl, symbol of a generation that is modern, but also rejects the modern, reading a book that is modern but doesn't make a noise to those who are not interested in reading at all. I don't know, it's just a fantastic picture.