/lit/ - Literature

Cocksmokers

>>19329222
You will not enjoy every book or assignment, but each should sharpen your critical reading or writing skills, and you can only learn what is and isn't worth reading from experience.
Honestly don't get the toilet paper meme: everyone I can think of from my class found some form of success (though many not in a form I would enjoy), but more to the point, who's got a gun to your head? If you can't see the value in what you're studying, why study it?

>>18985022
Sterne alone is ample refutation.
But when you add Pope, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, anon is revealed as a plebeian of the shortest order. And that's ignoring the gothics, who are not everyone's cup of tea, and the pre- and early romantics.
Not a big Smollett fan btw, except for Clinker

“By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubins and seraphins, and of all the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, together with the holy and elect of God,——May he” (Obadiah) “be damn’d” (for tying these knots)
——“We excommunicate, and anathematize him, and from the thresholds of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester him, that he may be tormented, disposed, and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire none of thy ways. And as fire is quenched with water, so let the light of him be put out for evermore, unless it shall repent him” (Obadiah, of the knots which he has tied) “and make satisfaction” (for them) “Amen"
May the Father who created man, curse him.——May the Son who suffered for us, curse him.——May the Holy Ghost, who was given to us in baptism, curse him (Obadiah)——May the holy cross which Christ, for our salvation triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him.
"May the holy and eternal Virgin Mary, mother of God, curse him.———May St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him.——May all the angels and archangels, principalities and powers, and all the heavenly armies, curse him.” [Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby,———but nothing to this.———For my own part I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.]

>>18851504
It is what I meant and as a reward for your ignorance I refer you to a reddit idiot's guide.

And just got to the excommunication of Obadiah scene. It's rare that a book makes me truly lol but this is brilliant.

>>16371120
Ayy