/lit/ - Literature

>John Steinbeck's "Breakfast."
I enjoyed the first sentece and every sentence that mentioned color, especially the "lavender gray of dawn" and the ones describing the stove. Those hours are good material because both your mind and the color of everything is blurry. And waking up from sleep/the sun rising/eating after being hungry was echoed in those ppl finding work and things getting better. But I didn't like how he described them eating breakfast as "frantic", it worked against the slow hazey atmosphere. And the last sentence was awful and redundant.
>"The Lotus Eater" by W. Somerset Maugham
This time a story about a downhill transition, again echoed by the war breaking out in the background. Truly a neet tragedy :( but luckily not a cheap cautionary tale with a final verdict on wilsons choice. I dont know how beautiful versus stagnant 25 years on an island would be though, so maybe the balance on that dilemma was a bit off. Seems like things only stay beautiful for shorter amounts of time. And because of that, it was less bittersweet and more depressing to me, even if the ending tried to play it otherwise, with a very similarly awful last sentence to the other one. But in line with the train metaphor at the start, it chugged along nicely.
>>19769194
>message
Bad reader! Bad! >:(
>>19768238
Surprised me too how much I enjoyed reading about people eating in both
>>19767455
Classic, but could have been even shorter. It might have been influenced by The Nine Billion Names of God written a year earlier, which is one of my faves