/lit/ - Literature

>>14210122
>posting a reaction gif
back to twatter

i'm a poor af college student and i need a site where i can download books. the library is closed today and my college's archive database doesn't have a copy available for PDF. any know where i can get a free or illegal copy of "The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther"
'Irving Singer.

like im desperate enough

> I read the entire works of Joyce (and some of FW with multiple essay books and a skeleton key), tons of poetry (Hardy, Yeats, Milton, etc. are my favorite), Proust, Thomas Mann, complete works of Beckett, Robert Coover, John Barth, etc.

> I want to write genre fiction

First paragraph to a story I'm writing, trying out a completely different style than usual (just finished a lot of nabokov books, maybe that's why.) Thoughts?

I wasn’t saved by Alban Berg (a century-old composer who aged like an apple: crisp but tart as a young man, who dropped and bruised himself, wrote the opera Wozzeck, died young -- how he garbaged those sonorities of Wozzeck down our gullets, god bless our ears! He was born sometime in those 1880s before the world hit color. Entertainingly inferior to his peer, Webern) and his inimical sonata, which flayed my fingers to velcro and tendons. I remained a mediocre composer, player, etc. despite my unending scholarship towards his works. But here I am! -- somnambulist, pianist, svelte and smoother of Berg’s bumps. Those bumps I’ve gorged in the musk of my office, and only in my office, coupled with nice glasses of tea and occasional hors. No piano in the room I’m afraid! Berg is studied, not played, and for good reason: the trichotillomania on page consumes me, stimulates me in terrible ways, makes me tear out my hair. I cannot play the sonata; that is, with the intended grace. But I certainly know Berg’s labyrinths, understand his pains in life: the latter are spelled out in the former, and printed in bars and stripes on paper.

>>6349795

well put tbh

>>6314347
>>6312416

>Faithful in Christ, and believer of courtly love,
>He still claimed to wish to keep his purity:
>He remained chaste and avoided the feminine touch.
>Womankind, in turn, did assist him in this endeavor;
>They remained strictly chaste from him as well.

Best bit.