/lit/ - Literature

>>17955011
not funny

what was the last "great novel"?

I heard you were using adverbs?

>>10907962
its about the journey not the destination
its about how you behave in the present rather than how you did in the past or whatever the future brings

follow ur heart, just b urself
>deciding where to go from here
if you don't know u don't no but maybe thats fine, u don't know really
im not one to tell people what to do so maybe ill talk about how i would answer the question and let u figure it out for urself: i am going from being a loser to being a winner, weak to strong, feminine to masculine, acted to actor, coward to gorilla, consumer to creator, academic failure to phd, 100k debt to millionaire wallstreet quant, 160lbs to 260,0 girlfirends to more than 0 girlfriends, ignorable to inimatable, unflexible to flexible
GODDAMN I HAVE LIGHTNING IN MY VEINS NEVER BEFORE HAVE I WANTED TO FIGHT AND FUCK AND SCREAM AS I DO NOW, AND I DO SCREAM, the fighting and the fucking should come later i imagine, rather, they will come later ;)
whether you believe you can or you cannot, you are right! fuck 4chan i gotta reel in my addictions, its too easy to open my laptop and waste time on the internet hunched over hungry neglecting responsibilities and the possibility of what i could have done with the time. when you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successfull also i should stop starting smoking pot since im never use responsible like i trick myself in to thinking i could

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>>9707723
except unless they start editing the texts themselves his novels are all still going to be no girls allowed masculinity machines. reading hemingway as an impressionable teen made me start lifting. no amount of new yorker articles recontextualizing his life is going to change the content of his books and how they are received.

So, what is the purpose of writers? They reach a pretty small audience today (even shitty potboilers aren't super influential) and for most of history literature has been exclusive to the affluent and literate upper class.

So, why are writers just as or more important than religious leaders, actors, and politicians?

>>9238520
Why did the dimensions fuck up?

SAY THAT TO MY FACE AND NOT ONLINE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS

THE STRANGE thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight. I do not know why they screamed at that time. We were in the harbor and they were all on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. We used to turn the searchlight on them to quiet them. That always did the trick. We'd run the searchlight up and down over them two or three times and they stopped it. One time I was senior officer on the pier and a Turkish officer came up to me in a frightful rage because one of our sailors had been most insulting to him. So I told him the fellow would be sent on ship and be most severely punished. I asked him to point him out. So he pointed out a gunner's mate, most inoffensive chap. Said he'd been most frightfully and repeatedly insulting; talking to me through an interpreter. I couldn't imagine how the gunner's mate knew enough Turkish to be insulting. I called him over and said, "And just in case you should have spoken to any Turkish officers."
"I haven't spoken to any of them, sir."
"I'm quite sure of it," I said, "but you'd best go on board ship and not come ashore again for the rest of the day."
Then I told the Turk the man was being sent on board ship and would be most severely dealt with. Oh most rigorously. He felt topping about it. Great friends we were.

1/2

>>8485968
b-but anon, I'm 61. Isn't that a bit too old to change tracks?

f-fuck

I guess you're right

so long everyone, thank you for making me see what I have to do

pic related: me preparing to do it

PS: tell that pussy F. Scott that he can F. Suck It

'Sup Nancy, heard you think you're into literature.

Purple prose is for sissies and nerds, so keep trying to figure out Faulkner while I fuck your wife.

>>8376293
Obvious Answer

>>8243244

>tfw Socially Liberal , Fiscally Conservative

"Fuck literature"
- Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters 1917-1961 pg 113

I walked, very quickly, into the hospital room. The room was cold and lined with linoleum and there was a woman at the desk. I asked her where my wife was, and she told me that she was down the hall.
I walked down the hall, which was also cold and jarring. I saw a man with a clipboard outside of my wife's room. I asked if she was okay. hegave no response, he simply waved me in. And there, on the bed, I saw her crying.

It is often in situations like this you know what to say, but you don't say them, and so you pretend that you do not know what to say. you simply outstretch your arms and pretend like you do not exist. I did as such. The room felt cold. I do not think that moments like this are especially meaningful, but they are especially poignant and there is no denying this.

After a little bit I left the room and walked back to my hotel in the rain.

how do you improve your skills in dialouge writing

>Hemingway (I just love his larger than life persona, and the manly subject matter in his writing)

>Blood Meridian

>Blood Meridian

>On the beach, facing the sun

>In the morning and then after lunch

>3-4 hours a day, 21 hours minimum a week.

>I'm about to start my freshman year of college

>Physical copies. There is no comparison to having a book actually in your hands.

Show me a manlier author.
Protip: you can't.

>>6732135

Yeah! We should all be freedom-loving reel human beans!

So what if I want to say nigger or fly the confederate flag? Stop calling me a racist and trying to police my behavior. I ain't harmin' nobody!

I can say and think what I want

>>6691101
muh phallic insecurity

>Socially defined the Masculine
>beta

Riiiight. Inb4 deconstructionist feminazis attmept the glorious monolith of man meat that is Hemingway.

Beefcake.

>>6435813
bumping this bc I'm a sad loser