/lit/ - Literature

>>4265277
>Nothing of value was lost

>One of the FIRST written stories by man kind.

>Hope you die in a fire.

>Nothing of value was lost.

>>3082177
>Large black coffee, please.
>If they try to pull that "tall" and "grande" shit, I just give them an ugly look.

>Large black coffee
>If they try to pull that grande shit

>Large
>Grande

>If they try to pull that "tall" and "grande" shit, I just give them an ugly look.

>>3069080
Five, including Top Gear. That's the only British show that I watch.

Which one is grammatically correct?

1) After knocking at his aunt's door and learning that she was indisposed, he had taken a walk about the town, and then he had come in to his breakfast. He had now finished his breakfast; but he was drinking a small cup of coffee, which had been served to him on a little table in the garden by one of the waiters who looked like an attaché. He was dressed in knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor little spindleshanks; he also wore a brilliant red cravat. In front of Winterbourne he paused, looking at him with a pair of bright, penetrating little eyes.

2) After knocking at his aunt's door and learning that she was indisposed he had taken a walk about the town and then he had come in to his breakfast. He had now finished that repast, but was enjoying a small cup of coffee which had been served him on a little table in the garden by one of the waiters who looked like _attaches_. He was dressed in knickerbockers and had red stockings that displayed his poor little spindle-shanks; he also wore a brilliant red cravat. In front of Winterbourne he paused, looking at him with a pair of bright and penetrating little eyes.

>I guess you could say that they were in a ....... bit of a huff?

So, you guys like reading? Well, what do you read in? I'll put five bucks on English. Perhaps you know another language. But I think that's about it? Why not learn one? A few? Well, go to #/lang/ on irc.rizon.net! If you are as computer-illiterate as you are otherwise literate:
1. Rizon.net/chat
2. Pick a name
3. Channel: #/lang/
4. Say hello, your native language, and Goethe, Dostoevsky, and others await.

>>2355011
Just sound like you Jelly and unhappy foo!

>>2355008
Just sound like you Jelly and unhappy foo.

>>2211318

>anachronic Xism

Is the the worlds worst spelling error?
Or the worlds lamest attempt at pretension?

>>2069148
What? You never read a book that made you look over your shoulder?

I pity you. And why the fuck are you on /lit/ then? People need to read more.

>>1532837

You do realize that mathematically someone has to pay up and that having friends will never "spread it out"? In other words, if you're not paying, someone else is and that makes you a leech.

>65

>>1180048
>George Orwell is one of the worst and most overrated authors ever.

“Sep, why are you taking my pen apart?”

“I just wanted to see how it worked.”

“Well Sep, you could have asked me I would have told you.”

“I wanted to discover it for myself, if everyone just asked another person how something works nothing new would be discovered.”

By the way this is the day I snapped, the day I broke free, the day I never turned back from.

“Everyone has been repeating things for so long, no one wants to do something new, everyone just learns from those who came before. We walk where thousands have been and think ourselves special. Hotels are man-kinds breeding grounds, like an animal instinctively going to their ancestors’ sacred mating lands. Humans flock to hotels to fuck on top of the countless others before them. Why do we keep playing the same musical instruments over and over? We should invent a new instrument for a change; do something that could radiate through time. No one creates new sports. People are too satisfied with this shitty existence.”

Darwin was wrong.

“Now Sep calm down.”

“Did we stop evolving? How can a man think about what he knows and be happy? Everything I have stuffed into my mind is from someone else or the result of things that already existed. Nothing is new. God was right when He said there is nothing new under the sun. Its not that I’m saying everyone is completely like this. People have created things like works of art, or ingenious machines, but it is never something completely new. There are a finite amount of combinations for what we can do within this universe. The only way to get away from this is to leave everything behind. Start your own world and begin where no one else has.”

Click.

There's a literary term that I can't name, and I was wondering if /lit/ could help me out.

What's it called when there's something weird in a story, but the reader must suspend his disbelief on it to make the story work? A rough example would be if everyone on Earth had a talking dog, and this was considered normal for the purposes of the story. I thought this was called a "literary conceit" but I'm not sure. I'm not even sure if I'm explaining it right.

Any help you can shoot my way would be appreciated.

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