/lit/ - Literature

>>10720173
"the waft of cock"
Okay honestly, this is by far the worst phrase ever put together in this language. Fuck you and fuck the causal chain of events that created you. I hope God erases you from the pattern of possibility so that your perverse obscenities never trouble sentient beings ever again.

Poseur

What does /lit/ think of Samuel Johnson?

How can one man be so based?

http://www.johnsonessays.com/the-adventurer/138-the-happiness-and-infelicity-of-writers/

"Having considered the importance of authors to the welfare of the publick, I am led by a natural train of thought, to reflect on their condition with regard to themselves; and to inquire what degree of happiness or vexation is annexed to the difficult and laborious employment of providing instruction or entertainment for mankind. ... I have, nevertheless, been often inclined to doubt, whether authors, however querulous, are in reality more miserable than their fellow mortals. The present life is to all a state of infelicity; every man, like an author, believes himself to merit more than he obtains, and solaces the present with the prospect of the future; others, indeed, suffer those disappointments in silence, of which the writer complains, to show how well he has learnt the art of lamentation."


It's a very good read, like everything Samuel Johnson ever wrote.

>That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.
— Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare"

Is this the single most titanic fucking sentence ever written? Every time I read it I see a volcano erupting.

>>8131658
>London
>boring

you are tired of life, anon

>decide to turn my NEET life around and go to college
>find I've already learned formal argumentation and rhetoric from shitposting
>the lit classes are all on shit I've already read
whelp, I hear math is fun.