/lit/ - Literature

>>14056566
you kinda look like her when young, with the only difference being that she is an actual woman

>>12500311
Only because there are so many dicks in it

best waifu coming through plebs

The shape of her head is a little off putting.
Looks like a linebacker.

>>6513696
If you have the right stuff. Need I remind you of wonder-dunce Paolini?
So with talent, a young author could put out something decent, though probably on a limited range of subject matter.
Was Yourcenar's Alexis (1929) really any good? No one here talks about it.

INTERVIEWER
>Is it because beyond a certain level the male-female dichotomy is irrelevant to you that you have not been interested in feminism? What has been your relationship to the feminist movement of the last few decades?
YOURCENAR
>It does not interest me. I have a horror of such movements, because I think that an intelligent woman is worth an intelligent man—if you can find any—and that a stupid woman is every bit as boring as her male counterpart. Human wickedness is almost equally distributed between the two sexes.
INTERVIEWER
>Is that why you did not wish to be published by Virago Press in England?
YOURCENAR
>I did not want to be published by them—what a name!—because they publish only women. It reminds one of ladies’ compartments in nineteenth-century trains, or of a ghetto, or simply of those basements of restaurants where one is confronted by a door marked Women and another marked Men. But of course there are social differences, and geographical ones. The Muslim woman is somewhat more restricted. But even there, I have just spent the winter in Morocco, and when I saw women walking arm in arm, going to the hammam (public baths)—a place which is not at all like the Turkish baths one imagines through Ingres’s pictures, and where any minute one risks one’s neck, so slippery it is—well, those women often seem happier than their Parisian or New Yorker sisters. They get a lot out of their friendships... So you see even Muslim women could achieve eminence despite their circumstances, if they had it in them.

>>5046299
Oooh ooh! I got Memoirs of Hadrian yesterday!

>>5046432
You hang out in many lesbian bars?