/lit/ - Literature

>>2052812
>>2052812

I've thought about this sometimes - the idea that the only progress from here would require us to literally begin to sever at our "humanity" slowly.

The strangest thing would be the fact that as we do it, that is become a more robotic and cold society of purely mentally mechanical beings, we wouldn't really find the problem of seeing the downsides of it from the artistic sort of side. We wouldn't even realize nor care about the things we miss from freedom, or colorful expression.

It'd probably still happen all the time, we'd just not live to point it out so.

I would only play Pynchon or Faulkner - I know they'd be overpowered.

Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love's
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree's yellow
emerges,
the lemons
move down
from the tree's planetarium

Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation's
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.

So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a nipple
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.

Here's another good one:

> be in Barnes and Noble
> just kind of browsing because I'm broke and thinking about just reading here
> see girl from school doing the same like two rows down
> don't mind it really and continue
> she eventually realizes I am here and approaches me
> "Hey Pointman, you must be here to grab that book for class huh? blah blah blah I don't even get why we're reading this crap, I mean, just push aside AP Literature for a class slot more worthwhile."
> she laughs with a face expecting me to agree
> mfw

She was Asian and smart as hell, but wow, we are two different people.

> mfw I immediately thought to mix the whiny story of coming to age with the BDSM

I don't know if it would work OP, but man it'd be one heck of a tale.

>>1972587
>>1972587

I'm just glad there wasn't any comment to be made on Tears for Fears.

I honestly thought I might get chided for liking them, but they are so good.

> Today, I self-controlled putting the Bible in my ass because I don't think God would like that, unless it is a form of prayer. In that case, my attitude towards God is that he is gay lol.

> also the Bible implies I should not write the first page but instead draw a big x on a page as in the story of moses.

Toss-up between Gamer Girl and this...one book.

It was written by what seems to be like an autistic child.

It was called Warriors of Darkness or some shit.

/lit/ is primarily:

1. "I HAVE READ THIS. SUGGEST OTHER THINGS TO ME" threads.

2. "I AM READING THIS. EXPECTATIONS?" threads

3. "I READ THIS. OPINIONS?" threads

4. <Insert philosophical debate question> threads that are half trolling and half good show

5. Straight up "lol trolled /lit/" threads or something relating to tripfriends/tripfags

6. Random people's poems or short story intros that get critiqued on a scale of 10 to /lit/ is on it's period.

Bout' it.

>>1948326
>>1948326

I can't believe you were a faggot this whole time.