/lit/ - Literature

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>>3810154
And yet you can't use capital letters or appropriately punctuate simple sentences. Why don't I believe you?

>>3800125
>Mlitt is basically dead

What? I've never heard of a uni that lets you take the DPhil/ PhD without the MSt/MA beforehand. Who does that?

I do English Lit pure.

Hey, guys, what do you think of this extract? I wrote it a few years ago, so it's rather juvenile. Old writing extracts general?

Dad brought me to work in the evening. As he worked, I scribbled nonsense on sheets of graph paper. At five-thirty, the Dhahran mosque sang out its prayers into the navy blue night. To my ears that knew nothing of Arabic or Islam, I would always wonder what this incessant plainchant was. Words and music garbled together into meaningless noise. But, I was at peace. From my bed, I could always hear the Imam’s lullaby, but never had I been so close to the mosque at prayer time, as I was at the office. All lit up in incandescent yellow that defied the encroaching night, with that blue-striped tower that stood tall on the little concrete island, the mosque serenaded the twilight. Every evening, for ten years, the azan lingered in the humid dim. At seven o’clock, it saw me off to sleep and resurrected me at five-thirty.

Wide Sargasso Sea
The Bell Jar
The Canterbury Tales
Dr. Faustus
Medea