/lit/ - Literature

>buy a book of Poems
>it’s just a book of every letter m that has appeared in every story Poe wrote

"Please, God, take me back, I don't belong here," the child cried as he lay curled up on the floor of his closet.

>tfw you accidentally skip a chapter but don't realize it until 100 pages later

>Metamorphosis

>>5674311
>tfw not Arian
>tfw reading Paradise Lost will never be worthwhile

>be me
>read a book
>like it
>google it later, find out later it was a bad book

Could someone please suggest something to get my life back on track?
>in college, living in a dorm
>I'm now hiding here alone in a room
>there's a paper today I'm bunking
>just sitting here alone browsing 4chan and smoking
>I don't even know why I am typing this shit up

captcha: you iamalone

>the novel has an introduction from some no-name scholar

>>5553684
1) Nice platitude, there, m8.
2) This one only means that there must be some Demiurge of sorts. It does not prove the existance of any particular God.

Reading, like all worthwhile things, is hard to do.

>tfw 6'3 250 pound bear
>walk in a library
>everyone gives me these dirty looks at me as if I'm about to start yelling and shotgunning beers on the books

>you don't want to post your writing here because when you become famous people will know you browsed 4chan

>books on writing

>"I have finally understood the horror of it: mine is a creative nature - that is, I have everything that a creative person should have - in my relationship to the surrounding world, in my ability to generalise, to filter, and, most terribly, in my demands of life, which are those of a "creator". One thing is lacking - talent; and the whole edifice comes tumbling down and knocks me on the head. My demands can never be satisfied because they are beyong my powers. I thought that to want is to be [i]able[i/]."

How do you deal with being untalented?

>>5213830
One of the Alien novels (Earth Hive) had a pretty PG sex scene in it that I discovered while reading on a road trip with the family.

>tfw thats where my love for written erotica began

>>5173082
>one will say yes
>implying

>tfw you will never sit around a campfire with Judge Holden

>>4167780
Sorry