/lit/ - Literature

>>7021966
>greatest authors of all time
>Shakespeare
Nice...

Sent this to a girl I like via facebook, she is an english TA so even though it seems kinda over the top I think she like this kind of stuff:


Olivia, my dear, I offer you
This composition of mine
A proposition, when you see it through
Of my love for you it shall be a sign

You're more to me than just an English TA
To me you're the most beautiful angel
Your face does all my pain allay
Yet you pass me like a stranger

Olivia, be my girlfriend!
I know I'm not the most good-looking
But I'll do anything - anything you want!
For you I'll even start cooking.

And I'll even stop smoking weed, like you told me.

Olivia, you're the one for me.
You know it as well as I.
We haven't talked much, but enough
To know what within our hearts lies.

O, siren, heed my call!
Would you let this wayward man fall?
The semester's over, so this might be late,
but I really wanna take you out on a date.

>tfw waiting for a response

20 Female, Rhode Island but I hate it hear
>salinger
>vonnegut
>G.R.R. Martin
>Orwell
>John Green(I know that hating him is a meme here, but he is actually a good writer)

>mfw I like pevear translations
Why are they so acclaimed outside of /lit/, but so hated on here?
Marketing aside, I know their not perfect, but there are much better than the other major translators

Anybody ever shown their powerlevel in real life and made themselves look like a pretentious ass?
>taking a summer /lit/ class in college to get ahead
>the class is filled with nerdy overachievers and afew dummies who failed the class during the previous semester
>Walk into class with Wilde by my side
>some "hipster" girl who always tries to impress the teacher by referencing entry level bs like Keats and Yates
>Talking to the professor
>spouts off 'ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn', and claims the words to be her own
>Being the /lit/ patrician that I am I haveread well, and I've heard them said a hundred times, maybe more
>Walk up behind her
>calmly say "If you must write prose and poems, the words you use should be your own"
>walk back to my seat without saying a word
>she gets red in the face and sits down, humbled

ITT: Books about free will (or the lack of)

>>4283476

I was right, and now you're just trying to use the verbal jew to keep painting me as your intellectual inferior and still avoid using "spooks".

You fail. I'm surprised you aren't a tripfag.

Hey /lit/ what was the name of that philosopher who thought that reproducing was wrong because the suffering the children had to go through?
I know im butchering the idea, but if anybody has any clue please help me out