/lit/ - Literature

He's certainly something. I love how in a single poem of his we go from peak lyricism:
>She, she is dead; she's dead: when thou knowest this,
>Thou knowest how poor a trifling thing man is
(...)
>She, she is dead; she's dead: when thou know'st this,
>Thou know'st how lame a cripple this world is
To alleyway versifier garbage such as this:
>So did the world from the first hour decay,
>That evening was beginning of the day,
>And now the springs and summers which we see,
>Like sons of women after fifty be.

>>22237267
>late
90s

>>22237087
>>'hey, I work in *same coffee shop different location* can I get an espresso?'
>sir this is not a franchise

For some reason I enjoyed Annihilation, both film and book. It's cool how the strangeness of the Shimmer is maintained, there's never a big reveal that tells you what it's all about. Some kind of alien technology? But the aliens are so strange that it's more of a metaphysical encounter?

OTOH I can sense the onions behind it all. Like college put some pomo gobbledygook in this guy's head and the moral of the story is trannies somehow.

"Rice creatures" edition

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>>22215456
I used the same picture in "start with the Greeks" a few days ago, glad its getting more love.

Anyway I'm writing a novel that I'm still having trouble getting off the ground. What started out as "detective and two shut-ins" has evolved into more of a Nero Wolfe knockoff.

This makes for a better, cohesive story but it means that almost everything had to be scrapped, the plotline hasn't kicked off yet, and still needs some work as to become its own distinctive work.