/lit/ - Literature

>>11487623
>I need a recommendation here.
The Loeb edition of the poetry of Catullus.

>XXV
>Effeminate Thallus, softer than rabbit's fur or down of goose or lap of ear, or dotard's drooping penis and its dusty cobwebs; and also, Thallus, more ravenous than a sweeping storm when a well-stocked clothes chest exhibits gaping cracks, send me back my cloak which you pounced upon, and my Saetaban napkin and Bithynian tablets, you silly fellow, which you keep by you and make a show of them, as if they were heirlooms. Unglue and let drop these at once from your claws, lest your soft downy flanks and pretty tender hands should have ugly figures branded and scrawled on them by the whip, and lest you should toss about as you are little used to do, like a tiny boat caught in a vast sea, when the wind is madly raging.

>XXVII
>Come, boy, you who serve out the old Falernian, fill up stronger cups for me, as the law of Postumia, mistress of the revels, ordains, Postumia more tipsy than the tipsy grape. But water, begone, away with you, water, destruction of wine, and take up your abode with scrupulous folk: here is an unadulterated devotee of Bacchus.

recommendation pls

>>11009233
unironically this. according to agamben, the greeks were famous for their perjury as well. they are natural born liars, and poets, and thinkers. very /lit/.

boy, you there boy, in the pic, bring me the mixed wine.

>at the Symposium
>sophists everywhere, feet hurt
>pic related offers you mixed wine
>"I- uhh..."
why are you so nervous anon

>>10687142
Finn “ill let you suck my boitoes and pucci for a role” wolfhard

How do i get better at analyzing books? I feel like i miss all these little cues that other people pick up on and i can never see past the surface level.