/lit/ - Literature

>>23299826

>diary is written in third person

>>23064167

>postprandial

>>22761148

>marry complacent

>>22672663

>faute-de-mieux

>>22628973

>lest

>a propos of

>>20389815
I read The Cement Garden but it was mostly incest-bait.
Siscon Ani To Brocon Imouto Ga Shoujiki Ni Nattara is a manga, which surprised me with it's follow-through of the incest theme.
Apart from that I'm in this thread to learn

>>20329337
>be professor of literature at prestigious university
>write introduction for classic work
>begin introduction by admitting you haven't read the whole book yet, but what you have read of it is jolly gpod
>go off into rambling anecdote about something-or-other to hit your word quota

Why can't we see this, just once?

>>20302056
><TITLE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS>
>(OR,
><LONG AND UNNECESSARY ALTERNATIVE TITLE WHICH NO-ONE KNOWS>)

>>20017862

>as the perceptive reader will doubtless be aware...

>>19945684
Remember, tradchads *always* put the apostrophes on abbreviations, even when the shorter form has been accepted for decades.

'phone (telephone)
'bus (omnibus)
'paper (newspaper)

>>19834322
>>19834333
>>19834344
A new Messiah is born.

>>19722654
Unlikely. Probably just a combination of too young, too not-Russian, too not-nineteenth-century and too not-educated-from-youth-to-enjoy-long-novels.

>>19591875
>imaginary girlfriend who is getting a bit pudgy goes off with another anon

— Nashki (noun)
Arabic calligraphic script.
EXAMPLE:
He gazed grimly at the first question. It might as well have been in Nashki. Perhaps he shouldn't have skipped quite so many lectures.

— inquilinate (verb)
To dwell in a strange place.
EXAMPLE:
Any Westerner who inquilinates in Japan will soon find, to his dismay, that anime has lied to him about the number of cute cat-girls in the country.

— glime (noun)
A sideways glance.
EXAMPLE:
His companion's book looked much more interesting, and he was unable to resist the occasional sly glime.

— globber (noun)
A glutton.
EXAMPLE:
No-one in real life would have called Stephen a globber, but when it came to humorous penguin gifs, his gluttony knew no bounds.

— exacinate (verb)
To remove the stone, pips, etc from fruit.
EXAMPLE:
With delicate, finicky precision she exacinated the date and began to nibble. Rupert felt a sudden strong desire to take her somewhere and bend her over something.

— rumbo (noun)
A strong punch made from rum.
EXAMPLE:
"Mother says I mustn't drink beer," said Gerald.
"Don't you worry, mate," said his host cheerfully. "This is rumbo. Not a drop of beer in it."

>>19510070

>mise-en-scène

>>19451019

— Noxal (adjective)
Describing damage caused by another's property (animal or slave)

— Irridentist (noun)
One who wishes to reclaim a country's lost territory

— Glabella (noun)
The space between the eyebrows

— Groak (verb)
To stare longingly at someone eating (the way dogs do)

— Epigone (noun)
Mediocre follower (e.g. someone who copies an artistic trendsetter)

— Rodomontade (noun)
A braggart (from a character in Orlando Furioso)

>>19393973

>Nivation
— ground erosion under snow

>Ithyphallic
— having erect penis

>Glabrous
— smooth, hairless

>Griffonage
— illegible handwriting

>Esplanade
— seaside walk

>Rantipole
— wild youth

>>19307907

>indubitably

>>19267709
>nonetheless

>contrariwise

>heretofore

> meme pic
> B8 Filename
> irrelevant time-wasting thread
Based, jannies and book-fags BTFO. They're going to be sore for a while after this one.

SAY IT AGAIN Y'ALL!

>>18938015
>Pieu in lieu

None.