/lit/ - Literature

The older the better, but anything before the Great War is acdeptable
I found this part of Moby Dick very funny. After Ishmael's boat chases a whale to the point the boat was rowing directly below the whale and capsized as the whale broke into the surface, once he men are picked up by the Pequod (who had also crashed against the capsized boat)

>"Queerqueg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?” Without much emotion, he gave me to understand that such things did often happen.

>“Mr. Stubb, I think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent. I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion?”

>“Certain. I’ve lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale off Cape Horn.”

>“Mr. Flask, you are experienced in these things, and I am not. Will you tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask, for an oarsman to break his own back pulling himself back-foremost into death’s jaws?”

>“Yes, that’s the law. I should like to see a boat’s crew backing water up to a whale face foremost. Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint for squint, mind that!”

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat- oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck’s driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this "uncommonly prudent" Starbuck’s boat; and finally considering in what a devil’s chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. “Queequeg,” said I, “come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee.”

Have you ever shoplifted a book? I did wih my first Crime and Punishment. I'm still expecting the Punishment

>>22284036
kek

yeah it's fucking catholic
>all people are created equal under god
>except for the elves that come from space and the dwarves made under the mountain, completely different from mortal men
>all people need redemption for eternal life
>except for elves lmao they just live forever by default
>the hobbits are allegorical for jesus
>except they're just little drunks with worldly desires, too simple for ambition
>the wizard next to them with divine miraculous powers would probably be jesus, if he didn't admit that evil tempts him
>maybe they both represent jesus lol
>sure its catholic it has to be
>just look at harry potter, catholics love wizards lmao

>>18842535
free will, more like pee will,

Amirite fellas?

>>17166607
the form of my dick! AYOOOOOOOOO REKT

>>17146884
>t. incel who has been left behind in life, so he lashes out in anger

>>16572103
>makes "things," probably some STEMfag nerd working for a megacorp
>AUDIOBOOK

unironically kys

>>13466782
>t.20 year old

>>12686889
>>12686892
>>12686919
all this butthurt. Looks like I hit a nerve

>>12682639
>obsessed with black dicks

you're gay, son

>>12678609
My favorite are the people who think Hell would be fun because it is where the cool people go... People who are so averse to any hardship that they only seek out constant, fleeting pleasure think that they will have fun in a place dedicated to complete and total hardship with no reward

>>12581934
>t.so desperate, he'll sacrifice moral values and risk ruining three other people's lives so he can finally get laid

>>12526717

>missing out on sex because of someone's taste in literature

/lit/ in a nutshell

>>12459630
>baby born black (not shocking)

>>12386286
>Aeschylus "Every character speaks in ridiculously long monologues except at one part 3/4 of the way through, where they just say one line to each other, then return to speaking in monologues"

I understand Aeschylus was first, and there is a lot of glory in that, but as entertainment, Euripides is better, Aristophanes is best. The Frogs reads like a Mel Brooks script when Dionysus and his slave keep switching costumes.

>>11978792
mouth readers BTFO

>>11844241
>Fiction is meaningless

Imagine being this retarded

>>11742420
Do you guys play Anarchy in the UK at your bi-weekly meetings? My group does, but really we just do it because the guy who sets up and runs the meetings hates it

>>11722778
>Trying this hard to justify your shitty, hateful religion

>>11721921
Kek

>>11705961
t. sad gymbro

>>11657839
you're like a parody of an ill-read person with no independent thought.

>>11642689
Damn, imagine fucking your hot language teacher(s). It's good to be a nobleman