/lit/ - Literature

>>7099406

Don't sink into the literary swoon. Be cool like Bill Watterson or William Blake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YU-V2C4ryU

Excerpts from Samuel Beckett and more
>"But I must have said this before, since I say it now!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIvzVgk16c

Text from James Joyce's episode/chapter "Sirens" from Ulysses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPjgE29xi1k

The melody was composed by Joyce, the words from one of his poems from "Chamber Music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP5Lz2iHE

An episode from The Dead. If you read it, you'll probably recognize it.
"Distant music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h87wzHikkwc

Opera composed by Ezra Pound; medieval vibe to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lgAUHVFC4

Steve Reich. I post it because the whole song feels like a demonstration of the aphorism it sings. Words from Wittgenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVnjiASvCOU

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SaNWWEj7WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJ2TUy3D9M

Curb your enthusiasm, okay? Literature—rock hybrid. Relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3REIVlo2Ss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospt12EfW-w

So you have a feel of the sonority of archaisms (english).
The second one=goosebumps I swear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6RUg-NkjY4

Story-telling in music—(point: watch your competition, writers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRToHaNlcY