/lit/ - Literature

>>4871987
>>4872887
Already posted, but thanks. It is exactly what I was looking for.

hey, /lit/fags, not familiar with this board but i hope you guys can help me

what book would you suggest for someone fighting an addiction?
not really patrician reader here, but i enjoy lovecrafts short stories, if that helps

will bump with some wallpapers and other random things

I dunno OP. I'm writing a 450000 word trilogy and its nearly finished. It's a fantasy/steam punk story dealing with the duality of destruction/creation and also with the futility of there not being a god. I'm writing it with a friend who gives some interesting plot stuff and helps expand on many of the characters. He's also one of the best illustrators I've ever seen and draws pictures of objects/locations/people in the story. I have them hanging around my monitor and it gives me ideas.

But honestly I don't know the story is good... when I compare it to something like Moby Dick it feels so badly written. Just makes me feel dead inside...

inb4 hurr durr lol moble dik

>>2630402
those colors are cool

Thanks to everyone who responded tonight.
One last bump before I head to bed and, if the thread doesn't 404, I'd love to see what any others have to say in the morning

cheers

I was actually thinking about this last night, when all of earth's religions are taken into account, it maks the wager less sound although I would say it still rings true to an extent.

As i'm sure you can tell, i'm no philospher, this is just my take on it.

George Orwell - The Road to WIgan Pier
Sir Richard Burton - To the Holy Shrines

a couple of the better texts I read for a recent Travel Literature course I took.

In a story written in English aimed for an English-speaking audience, how do you deal with foreign languages? Large portions of the story take place outside of the english speaking world (i.e., Japan, Russia, Spain, Iran, India) and many of the characters don't speak english. Do I just write the dialogue in english anyway? What about honorifics for the Japanese characters? I've never written anything that takes place outside of the U.S. before so I'm not sure how to approach it correctly. I do know some spanish, russian, and japanese but I have no clue about the other languages, should I attempt to learn them (or at least investigate them)?

Grimshaw, where have you been all my life?

Oh my goodness, what's this I see?
Athena has sent her murky mist
and my room has drifted out to sea.
Gently swaying on this infirm surface
I settle down with a smelly old book
and this bottle of Chianti

How does /lit/ feel about setting? Is it most of the reason you read? Is it just an extra flavor that you assume is there? What are some of your favorite places for a story to be?

Commonwealth arrived on March 21, 1854. Garibaldi, already a popular figure on Tyneside, was welcomed enthusiastically by local workingmen, although the Newcastle Courant reported that he refused an invitation to dine with dignitaries in the city. He stayed in South Shields on Tyneside for over a month, mostly playing with local cats, and then departed at the end of April 1854. During his stay, he was presented with an inscribed sword, which his grandson later carried as a volunteer in British service in the Boer War. He then sailed to Genoa, where his five years of exile ended on 10 May 1854. "I knew they'd change their minds." said he.

Garibaldi returned again to Italy in 1854. Using a legacy from the death of his brother, he bought half of the Italian island of Caprera (north of Sardinia), devoting himself to agriculture. In 1859, the Second Italian War of Independence (also known as the Austro-Sardinian War) broke out in the midst of internal plots at the Sardinian government. Garibaldi was appointed Supreme Lord Major General, [He talked them down to just Major General] and formed a volunteer unit named the Hunters of the Alps (Cacciatori delle Alpi). Thenceforth, Garibaldi abandoned Mazzini's republican ideal of the liberation of Italy, assuming that only the Piedmontese monarchy could effectively achieve it. Therefore the Cacciatori delle Alpi would only wear these cute little blue outfits, instead of those faggy red shirts from last season. So gauche, I mean really!

Any criticisms of my poem? I think I'll feel proud of it for a few days and suddenly embarrassed that I ever wrote it.

1918

"A room without doors,
within these walls."
This, he said, was god.

Pebbles formed beneath the skin.
Husband, daughter, mother, gone.
Light of an indifferent sun
heats an empty bed.
Imprint of a heavy head.

They have gone into the doorless room.
This, I say, is memory.

rebumping

I thought someone would have something to say by now! I've even given you a comic and wallpaper, jeez /lit/.

Hello /lit/
This is the first piece of prose I've written which I don't feel totally ashamed of. Is my lack of shame justified? I'd appreciate your constructive criticism - or if you can't be bothered with that, just your opinions. Here it is:
In my bathtub there is one large spider and three splayed-out heaps which used to be spiders but are now shrivelled husks. I don't bathe very often. I could approach the spider, like I did in the days when I bathed, with the powerful detachable showerhead which fastens to the taps and blast the spiders dead or alive down the plughole. I could be the largest spider of them all. But, since I both love and fear the spiders, I have chosen to leave them undisturbed. I would rather retain my humanity - even at the expense of my hygiene.

Bump, with nice wallpaper.

making a hide a book, is The Wall worth gutting, 1950 Alfred A. Knopf edition

picnotrelated

not my fav but I fucking love this colors