/lit/ - Literature

With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots,
Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue,
Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.

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>Of Logic and its neglect, and the consequent strange Illogicality of many even of our principal writers—hence our Crumbly friable Stile, each Author a mere Hour-Glass, and if we go on in this way, we shall soon have undone all that Aristotle did for the human Race, and come back to Proverbs and Apologues
>The multitude of Maxims, Aphorisms, and Sentences and their popularity among the French, the beginners of this Style, is it some proof and omen of this?

>Of Logic and its neglect, and the consequent strange Illogicality of many even of our principal writers—hence our Crumbly friable Stile, each Author a mere Hour-Glass, and if we go on in this way, we shall soon have undone all that Aristotle did for the human Race, and come back to Proverbs and Apologues
>The multitude of Maxims, Aphorisms, and Sentences and their popularity among the French, the beginners of this Style, is it some proof and omen of this?

>Wow, that really reminds me of 1984!
>It's shocking how similar today's world and the world of 1984 are!
>Wow, it's like Big Brother became a reality!

Holy fuck, this pisses me off. I'm only a casual reader, but I can still reference books that weren't written by George Orwell. Why did he have to write 1984? Why?!?!?

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>Dude, what if like, *hits opium pipe* there was a guy, and he shot a bird, and like, he got btfo because of him. And what if like, *has opium nightmare* conservatism btfos everyone else?

>Of Logic and its neglect, and the consequent strange Illogicality of many even of our principal writers—hence our Crumbly friable Stile, each Author a mere Hour-Glass, and if we go on in this way, we shall soon have undone all that Aristotle did for the human Race, and come back to Proverbs and Apologues
>The multitude of Maxims, Aphorisms, and Sentences and their popularity among the French, the beginners of this Style, is it some proof and omen of this?

What do ya'll think of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?