/lit/ - Literature

>>4644721
>not righting what you think as you think it
Shit's fun. You can almost see my train of thought derail and get off topic.

For a few months now I've had this idea brewing in my brain about writing a musical.
The problem is, I can't even think of a theme or idea for it. I have absolutely nothing. I think part of the problem is that I don't want to commit to something that turns out to be a shitty idea.
What do you do when you have writers block like this?

>amazon, secondhand, or "Chapters" canada's B&N
>$6-$20
>approaching 500 books, definitely more than 350

I almost always keep books I have read and have been reading and thus collecting for a while.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/thishould-not-be-a-love-story-readindt-maxs-biography-of-david-fosterallace/
>When [Wallace’s sister Amy] was three, he knocked out her front teeth. When he was in ninth grade, he got so mad at her… that he pushed her down and dragged her through the backyard through the excrement left by their dog.

Daily reminder that DFW dragged his sister in dog shit when he was 14.

>>3688844

Work by David Foster Wallace available online:

Essays:
>Consider The Lobster- http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster
>Federer as Religious Experience- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&
>Host- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/303812/
>Just Asking- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-asking/306288/

Short Fiction:
>All That- http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/14/091214fi_fiction_wallace
>Asset- http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/06/21/1999_06_21_093_TNY_LIBRY_000018447
>Backbone- http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/03/07/110307fi_fiction_wallace
>Good People- http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/02/05/070205fi_fiction_wallace
>An Interval- http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/01/30/1995_01_30_080_TNY_CARDS_000369136
>Several Birds- http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1994/06/27/1994_06_27_164_TNY_CARDS_000367759
>Wiggle Room- http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/03/09/090309fi_fiction_wallace

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/thishould-not-be-a-love-story-readindt-maxs-biography-of-david-fosterallace/
>When [Wallace’s sister Amy] was three, he knocked out her front teeth. When he was in ninth grade, he got so mad at her… that he pushed her down and dragged her through the backyard through the excrement left by their dog.

Daily reminder that DFW dragged his sister in dog shit when he was 14.

>>3394877

>>3235711

Male: Hal Incandenza
Female: Hal Incandenza
Child: Hal Incandenza
Non-Human: Hal Incandenza

I'm coming mister Foster Wallace!

Love, Anon.

>implying I won't light my candles on that date

Are you the best poster on /lit/?

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>>2817144
It's not the words, but whole sentences that look obscure to me. I have in my hands a copy of Macbeth, and here's an excerpt:

A good and virtuous nature may recoil
In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon;
That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose:
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace
Yet grace must still look so.

I understand every word but I have no idea what I just read.

>>2728723
Pretentiousness.
Okay, maybe Plato. But Aristotle is a no no.

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>>2599204
I beg your pardon?

>>2581822

What are /lit/'s thoughts on Comparative Lit? I have a few books on the subject in the mail, and I want to be as cynical as possible before I read them.

How does this make you feel /lit/?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110505002257AAXueMU