/lit/ - Literature

>>21954088
True, I imagine the part where Severian comes across the painting of an astronaut would be wasted if given the visuals up front rather than just reading and imagining what he's looking at.

>The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner.

>The visor of this figure's helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more.

>This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. In some obscure way, I wanted to take down the picture and carry it - not into our necropolis but into one of those mountain forests of which our necropolis was (as I understood even then) an idealized but vitiated image. It should have stood among trees, the edge of its frame resting on young grass.

>>15993136
>The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure’s helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more.

>This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. In some obscure way, I wanted to take down the picture and carry it—not into our necropolis but into one of those mountain forests of which our necropolis was (as I understood even then) an idealized but vitiated image. It should have stood among trees, the edge of its frame resting on young grass.

>>15421043
finished the first book just now, over like a week. I can't believe how long I put this book off which was for like 2 years but I'm not sure if I'd appreciate it as much if I hadn't read all the stuff I did during that time. I don't think I've ever seen the universe of a book so vividly as this one in my mind. The scenes playing over in my mind before I go to sleep. Next I'm reading two NF books but claw will definitely be the first fiction book I'll read after that.

Okay, I've got limited funds at the moment and can only get one of the these: Soldier of Sidon, The Knight, Awake in the Night Land and 'The Island of Doctor Death' and Other Stories. Which one would you recommend?

>>13024903
4/4