/lit/ - Literature

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>>12007793
I currently work with drug addicts and homeless people. Today I saw a guy almost code on meth/heroin, another guy have essentually a combatative breakdown over his homelessness. I also chatted with a guy with a .385 BAL about the Hobbit, and yesterday a Pentacostal Christian showcased glossolalia for me. I think it's pretty /lit/.

>>11950308
Be less of a pussy.

>>11952377
sip on, my friend

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>>7023491
What kind of youtube comment retard retort is that? Because he was a successful author he can't be a poser?

I actually like his writing, but the man was a conflicted little tryhard poser and a terrible person. It's what he did, he was obsessed with his own myth.

>>6859587
I think it's rather pathetic tbh, especially the way he went about it.

>>6463927
>Hemingway wrote drunk
>>"Write drunk, edit sober"

That's made up by idiots. This is from his actual correspondence:

>Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does?... The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
>The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold.


Hemingway's writing routine:

>When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Pls be informed.

>and

Do you read as escapism?

Doesn't everybody? People always say of great writers that they can make you feel as if you're in the middle of the events of the book, that they can take you another place and time.

>>5373011
I've read a few of his books over the years and found them enjoyable.

>persona
>"h-hey guys! Look how cool I am! / 10

But does that really matter? Why should I care about his personal life as long as I understand his writing?

>>5226414
he tried so hard

I have a very disorganized piling of images from past threads, I'll slowly be adding them

this one gets me everytime