/lit/ - Literature

>>20101930
>mental illness is useful to me

>>8064661
>opposed at most to radical precepts of rousseau's liberalism

The general will is literally spooks.

Write an original, terrible opening line. The worst you can possibly come up with.

>>7516308
Why don't you do me a favor and start asking better questions?

I work in a bookstore

Today a girl who looks like Lolita asked me to show her Lolita.

Bookstore stories.

>>7025261
OP, if you're going to do this, you better do it the right way. I copied every response (save one) in this Google Doc, now contribute freely, you scoundrels.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YaTmYBhWoFMWZ6GCL5hwzc1wKQzuZPGCeUVxt9XQf44/edit?usp=sharing

/lit/, I am not and never was an English major, a lit crit marjor, or a lit theory major.

When I read something like Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, I wonder how much I am not getting because I didn't study what they studied.

What do you read or study to get this kind of knowledge besides an annotated copy of a book? To understand how literature has changed over time, for example, how Lolita and Lost in the Funhouse have very big undertones of "pomo" going on that are usually laughing and sneering at modernism but at the same time trying to be like modernism.

tldr; do English majors read literature about literature that reveals why books like Lost in the Funhouse are pomo?

>>6498142
Ok but what did you think of the story

>>6484044
Anyone?

I'm still not sure if I'm right in my advice.

Let's just say you decide to go to America, specifically San Fran.

If you live in the state for a year your tuition will drop dramatically. You can after that go to a community college in California and after those two years (sort of) you will have a very high chance of getting into a UC, specifically Berkeley.

You don't have to do this. You can of course live here for a year and then apply straight for Berkeley.

If you decide to go this route I don't recommend living in San Fran for that first year. You'll already be going there (Berk) and there are very few blocks or neighborhoods that are starving artist reasonable.

I'd recommend living in one of the poorer areas of LA. The scene in LA is very different from the bay and it has quite a lot going on, even compared to NYC.

As far as choosing between Paris, London, or San Fran, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what you like specifically and the context of how you like culture. If we are just talking about English versus French without looking where you will be moving to, I'd say English. Seems to have more freedom from the little I know of French.

If you choose English I would choose San Fran over London. I've never been to London but I don't hear many good things. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

However don't come to California if we run out of water

>>6303690
Hmm, I just can't go with it. I can understand the desperation for clear and satisfying communication coming from the author. The real want for sincerity that is good and honest. Sure.

Still, there is something about it that is so flat. What exactly is it doing that every creative writing freshmen last year didn't write to themselves in their journals?

There is definitely the want as a writer to create this connection, but the writer also has to imagine themselves as the reader taking this in. There are no limits to how he could have presented this idea to the reader, and this way really seems to fail.

BUT, maybe I should give the octet another go.

A very slow board has some HAPPENINGS

Some people come over and things get a bit degenerate (two or three threads a day now to be specific)

People will overreact because it is drama

People will get over it when other drama happens somewhere else

Everything will be the same except the mention here or there of the current now

Every time. Every fucking time.