/lit/ - Literature

>heed me. i heb obinion.

>>10240336
stop using the words "fag" "cocksucker" "normie" and "normalfag" so much. it's not a good look

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us in the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the waters of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and the harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm chair and confuse his ‘Rinse the mouth—rinse the mouth’ with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us—when we think of this an infinitely more, as we are so frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.

>>8564721

I am taking a major authors study in the Fall on Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. The books we will cover haven't been distributed yet but I'm anticipating To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Lady Chatterley's Lover and some others. What does /lit think of these authors. (I've never read any of their works before).

>>8151660
Then go gay. I'm not stopping you. But the people who are worth it who engage in the same things you do, there work under the same logic, it's kind of universal. If you think that's evil and bitchy and elitist and hipster, you can always find desperate people on Grindr.

How do I become as motivated a reader as you, /lit/?

I was the student in my upper year lit class who sat in the front row, who ate his lunch in class, who never put his hand up to contribute, who sometimes made inappropriate jokes, who sometimes made worthy comments in self-deprecating ways.

The entire class and the professor dropped clues the entire time.

Now class seems vicious. Because I figured it out. I can't tell if I'm loved or hated or both. I thought I was going to faint out of my chair the last class (really the first class, for me).

What's really going on?

>>6861773
>neoclassic
>ethereal

it doesn't get much more middlebrow than that

>>6617398

Woolf

>Great novels
>Good short stories
>Good essays

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway.

The character Septimus Smith, Clarissa Dalloway's double and a repressed homosexual, kills himself at the end of the novel.

I've chosen to argue that his suicide his anti-heroic. But how can suicide be heroic when it's seemingly entirely, for the character, a relief and escape from reality?

Yes, this is for a class. But this is genuinely puzzling me. How can you commit suicide and still be a hero? Wouldn't every suicide - resultant of problems - be "anti-heroic" in the face of those problems that cause said suicide. Say I'm bullied and turn to heroin and kill myself in two years. I'm a brave, courageous anti-hero taking a stand against heroin and bullying? Surely that can't be it, because then the problems "win", not me, not Septimus, because we're dead in the face of our loved ones.

How does the thought processes of a genius differentiate from anyone else?