/lit/ - Literature

This was back in high school.

>in AP English Comp
>pop-essay
>teacher gives us an excerpt from an Onion article
>prompt: "Why is this funny?"
>unfunny AP tryhards flail about with some bullshit
>I'm the only person who gets a 5

>>3248152
I can recite the first paragraph of Gravity's Rainbow from memory

Arguably, the dullest first page there is Infinite Jest's.

>>3208595
A-ha! According to the New York Times Style and Usage Guide (which I have just acquired for fifty cents), E.E. Cummings only spelled his name in lowercase in his poetry; in everyday life he spelled it regularly.

>>3154762
Practically everyone else you've read was a racist, so what?

The whole Nazism thing changes the game a bit though.

Sorry, but I didn't like it.

And I'm sorry, the publishing industry isn't going anywhere, it's just in a transitory state. There's just simply too much shit to wade through in the self-publishing realm; terrible stories wouldn't "fall by the wayside," as you say, but become the dominant literary foreground in that case.

>>3020486
Jokes on you, I smoke Parliaments, write with Bics, drink Lipton, and actually write/analyze + study literature, etc.

I agree though.

The pouring of the milk represents ethnic cleansing, and the purity of the Aryan race.

Hoo doggie, d'as some prose y's got thar.

>>2447066
>art books
>/lit/

pick one

>>2426923
>But you're lying.

What music should I listen to while writing a fantasy novel about colonialism (Scramble for Africa type)?

I'm playing Lustmord at the moment.

What does /lit/ use to write with? Is anything more than MS Word worth using?