/lit/ - Literature

>start reading
>asleep in 10 minutes

/lit/

How do I know stressed from unstressed?

I mean...seriously.

>>6859260
A dwarf's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. Dwarf's
body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays.
Penny a week for a sod of turf.
>Our. Little. Beggar. Baby.
Meant nothing.
Mistake of nature. If it's healthy it's from the mother. If not from the man.
Better luck next time.

>yfw you'll always be too poor and too stupid to get what you want
>yfw you think reading books will lead you places
>yfw you base your life on a delusion of writing books that will make you money but you have no discernible writing talent
>yfw life sucks

I'm scared of writing, /lit.

It terrifies me, but I am so fucking good at it.

Anyone else have this problem?
How do you overcome it?

"Dear Mom, I put a couple people in Hell today...."

>mfw most of /lit/ probably have a tumblr
>mfw most of /lit/ probably have a goodreads
>mfw most of /lit/ are actually plebs

>>5325980
>>5325988
>They have no mercy on that here or infanticide. Refuse christian burial. They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Found in the riverbed clutching rushes.

>he looked away from me. He knows. Rattle his bones
>Thought he was asleep at first. Then saw like yellow streaks on his face. Had slipped down to the foot of the bed. Verdict: overdose. Death b misadventure. The letter. For my son Leopold.
>No more pain. Wake no more. Nobody owns.

>I will appear to you after death. You will see my ghost after death. My ghost will haunt you after death. There is another world after death named hell. I do not like that other world she wrote.

That whole chapter....
and then..

>Bloom
> (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly.) Rudy!

>Rudy
> (gazes unseeing into Bloom's eyes nd goes on reading, kissing, smiling. He has a delicate mauve face. On his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons. In his free left hand he holds a slim ivory cane with a violet bowknot. A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket)