/lit/ - Literature

>>22232624
That's the rough diamond look, but Faulkner was generally quite a dapper fellow. He liked to wear his handkerchief in his sleeve because that's what R.A.F. officers did, or something.

>>20785306
All pipe-spokers are honorary Englishmen.

Longest chapter I can think of:
Chapter 2 of The Sound and the Fury. (104 pages in my edition.)

Shortest chapter I can think of:
"My mother is a fish." (As I Lay Dying).

Pretty cool of WF to hold both records, if you ask me.

(Bonus: longest paragraph I can think of = second paragraph of Molloy by Samuel Beckett, which is 83 pages long in my edition.)

Can anyone beat any of these?

Longest chapter I can think of:
Chapter 1 of The Sound and the Fury. (73 pages in my edition.)

Shortest chapter I can think of:
"My mother is a fish." (As I Lay Dying).

Can anyone beat either of these?

>>19698945

>Yessum

YWN gaze into the middle distance, puffing on your pipe and thinking about words like "circumambience".

>>17751650
>effluvium
>circumambient
>miasmal-distillant

Is smoking a pipe litty?

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

Faulkner never fails to put into words that which I try so desperately to convey to my peers on the subject of writing. I've tried so often and so desperately to tell people that I see potential in that all it takes to ignite the creative process is the simple observation of literature.

Thoughts? Arguments?

ive never seen a picture of Faulkner with a full beard.

nuttin bro just chillin

Which of the following does /lit/ think I should read next? I can't decide.

Steppenwolf
The Dharma Bums
Blood Meridian
The Dharma Bums
Blood Meridian

oscar wilde isn't even a good writer, much less one of the best.

Hemingway is overrated as fuck, Salinger is underrated, Faulkner is appropriately rated

it was men who invented virginity not women

men can't be virgins