/lit/ - Literature

>>23199517
>stunning portrait
>made by AI

>>20718224
You'd have better luck getting your book published by becoming a minor internet celebrity than by becoming a great writer.

>>20664295
Same and recently I've been reading romance fantasy. It's pure depression AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>I'M NEVER GONNA HAVE A GF WHO LOVES ME AND SPARS WITH ME USING SWORDS

I'll start

EDMUND
Some officers take them away: good guard,
Until their greater pleasures first be known
That are to censure them.
CORDELIA
We are not the first
Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;
Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.
Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
KING LEAR
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.
EDMUND
Take them away.
KING LEAR
Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,
And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;
The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,
Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve
first. Come.
Exeunt KING LEAR and CORDELIA, guarded

To leave Harvard your mother's
dream for sold Benjy's pasture for
what have I done to have been given children like these Benjamin was punishment enough and now for her to have no more regard for me her
own mother I've suffered for her dreamed and planned and sacrificed I
went down into the valley yet never since she opened her eyes has she
given me one unselfish thought at times I look at her I wonder if she can be
my child except Jason he has never given me one moment's sorrow since I
first held him in my arms I knew then that he was to be my joy and my
salvation I thought that Benjamin was punishment enough for any sins I
have committed I thought he was my punishment for putting aside my
pride and marrying a man who held himself above me I dont complain I
loved him above all of them because of it because my duty though Jason
pulling at my heart all the while but I see now that I have not suffered
enough I see now that I must pay for your sins as well as mine what have
you done what sins have your high and mighty people visited upon me but
you'll take up for them you always have found excuses for your own blood
only Jason can do wrong because he is more Bascomb than Compson while
your own daughter my little daughter my baby girl she is she is no better
than that when I was a girl I was unfortunate I was only a Bascomb I was
taught that there is no halfway ground that a woman is either a lady or not
but I never dreamed when I held her in my arms that any daughter of mine
could let herself dont you know I can look at her eyes and tell you may
think she'd tell you but she doesn't tell things she is secretive you dont
know her I know things she's done that I'd die before I'd have you know
that's it go on criticise Jason accuse me of setting him to watch her as if it
were a crime while your own daughter can I know you dont love him that
you wish to believe faults against him you never have yes ridicule him as
you always have Maury you cannot hurt me any more than your children
already have and then I'll be gone and Jason with no one to love him shield
him from this I look at him every day dreading to see this Compson blood
beginning to show in him at last with his sister slipping out to see what do
you call it then have you ever laid eyes on him will you even let me try to
find out who he is it's not for myself I couldn't bear to see him it's for your
sake to protect you but who can fight against bad blood you wont let me try
we are to sit back with our hands folded while she not only drags your
name in the dirt but corrupts the very air your children breathe Jason you
must let me go away I cannot stand it let me have Jason and you keep the others they're not my flesh and blood like he is strangers nothing of mine
and I am afraid of them I can take Jason and go where we are not known
I'll go down on my knees and pray for the absolution of my sins that he
may escape this curse try to forget that the others ever were

>>18925544
>women