/lit/ - Literature

obviously joanna newsom

I want to write about arousal. Rouse means to rise from sleep. Stendhal syndrome, religious ecstasy, and genital stimulation represent one thing, arousal. Not high or low but absolute. Beyond grappling with the pleasure principle there is the need to make vision of how we orient ourselves to the world according to this new place.

Until the night is over
Hold on!
Hold on!
Hold your horses back from the fickle dawn
I have got some business out at the edge of town
Candy weighing both of my pockets down
'Til I can hardly stay afloat, from the weight of them
And knowing how the common-folk condemn
What it is I do, to you, to keep you warm
Being a woman, being a woman
But always up the mountainside you're clambering
Groping blindly, hungry for anything
Picking through your pocket linings, well, what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?
I see the blossoms broke and wet after the rain
Little sister, he will be back again
I have washed a thousand spiders down the drain
Spiders ghosts hang soaked and dangelin'
Silently from all the blooming cherry trees
In tiny nooses, safe from everyone
Nothing but a nuisance gone now, dead and done
Be a woman, be a woman
>>13054537
I got you fren

>>12344229
Normally I'm not a fan of people posting about musicians on /lit/, but I make an exception for Joanna.

>>12344252
I thought Divers was her best work, or at least comes close next to Ys

her ass is poetry

>>11066628
Makes me cry too

>>8616966
She's an angel

>>7889191
>>7887801

genuinely good ass

>>6372306

>>6313914
How is it?
I wish you had put it in the OP

Chriiiist /lit/ is obnoxious. I've never seen a larger group of twenty something, semi educated, halfwits who seem to think dismissal is somehow valid criticism. Typical /lit/ posts look like...

> Shakespeare is literally shit, he was just pop lit
> Hugo is shit LMAO
> I read X and it didn't blow me away like I expected, is everyone who liked it wrong?
> I'm a wannabe iconoclast but I still worship plato and homer... all English literature is shit LMAO
> Dostoyevsky is shit, he was just a moralist
> Ell emm ayy OH Tolstoy only wrote soap operas

You people realise that nobody gives a shit if you dislike Shakespeare right? Nobody cares if you think Tolstoy only wrote soap operas. What really nails /lit/ for me though is the quality of writing I see in the poetry and writing critique threads... I think most of you here must be really deranged. You've read at most a few hundred books, you can't write yourself and you think that you are the person most qualified to dismiss authors like Shakespeare (about who entire libraries have been devoted)... it's fucking nuts.

>>5366766

muh nigga