/lit/ - Literature

>My first novel got picked up from the slush pile and is getting published by a small but reputed subsidiary of a major publishing house

We're all gonna make it.

"Since dark antiquity the words have been spoken by women of every caste to sailors in every port; words of docile acceptance of the horizon's authority, of reckless homage to that mysterious azure boundary; words never failing to bestow on even the haughtiest woman the sadness, the hollow hopes, and the freedom of the whore:
'You'll be leaving in the morning, won't you? .."

>Return to rural home after years in the city
>Take pleasant morning walk
>Overwhelmed by the divinity of nature
Books for this feel?