/lit/ - Literature

>— Jews, he softly imparted in an aside in Stephen's ear, are accused of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it, I can safely say. History—would you be surprised to learn?—proves up to the hilt Spain decayed when the inquisition hounded the jews out and England prospered when Cromwell, an uncommonly able ruffian who, in other respects, has much to answer for, imported them. Why? Because they are imbued with the proper spirit. They are practical and are proved to be so. I don't want to indulge in any... because you know the standard works on the subject, and then, orthodox as you are... But in the economic, not touching religion, domain, the priest spells poverty. Spain again, you saw in the war, compared with goahead America. Turks. It's in the dogma. Because if they didn't believe they'd go straight to heaven when they die they'd try to live better—at least, so I think.
Well, /lit/, is he right?

>>22691976
Some of the most interesting books out there are written shortly after some time has passed, I wouldn't worry about it friend.

I also wouldn't try and become popular through writing myself, but best of luck to you all the same.

>>20668313
>>20671481
He looks like this.

>>20644814
I didn't make the beans, I've got no more drawing talent than Joyce.

>>20585858
Nice finds, I need to visit one myself instead of ordering used online. I was rereading some Milton today, interesting note about him is that he had lots of notes on Paradise Lost even as a teenager but delayed the project due to a number of things and didn't finish it until he was almost 60. He very well could have died writing it like Pascal did writing Pensees.

What do you think about Virginia Woolf, have you read her? I really enjoy stream of consciousness from Joyce and Faulkner and wanted to read To the Lighthouse this year.

>She knew from the first poor little Rudy wouldn’t live. Well, God is good, sir. She knew at once. He would be eleven now if he had lived.
>Noisy selfwilled man. Full of his son. He is right. Something to hand on. If little Rudy had lived. See him grow up. Hear his voice in the house. Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit. My son. Me in his eyes. Strange feeling it would be. From me. Just a chance.
>A dwarf’s face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy’s was. Dwarf’s body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays. Penny a week for a sod of turf. Our. Little. Beggar. Baby. Meant nothing. Mistake of nature. If it’s healthy it’s from the mother. If not from the man. Better luck next time.
>Mamma, poor mamma, and little Rudy.
>I too. Last of my race. Milly young student. Well, my fault perhaps. No son. Rudy. Too late now. Or if not? If not? If still?
>He bore no hate.
>Hate. Love. Those are names. Rudy. Soon I am old.
>(Silent, thoughtful, alert he stands on guard, his fingers at his lips in the attitude of secret master. Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an Eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand. He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling, kissing the page.)
>BLOOM: (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly.) Rudy!
>RUDY: (Gazes, unseeing, into Bloom’s eyes and goes on reading, kissing, smiling. He has a delicate mauve face. On his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons. In his free left hand he holds a slim ivory cane with a violet bowknot. A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)
Fuck . . . after becoming a father, these lines hit hard.

I'd say Ulysses' last chapter--and particularly it's last line--is beautiful.

>>18454776
>It’s about as difficult to understand as Ulysses
I have to strongly disagree with you here anon. When I went into Blood Meridian it was one of the first books I "seriously" read after leaving college and, while I struggled at times, I was able to get most of it. Ulysses was the seventeenth book I read this year and I could not large sections, even when I re-read them.

Literature about cuckoldry?

>>18086478
Why would I trust a perverted Irishman like Bloom on writing?

I wish more authors tried to draw pictures of their characters.

Look at this guy. Does he really look like the type who wouldn't pay for lemonbar soap, when clearly promising too? He'll make dues on Friday

>>15157088
>What would a modern day Odysseus look like?

Describe your writing style

>>14074214
>Harold bloom
It's Leopold Bloom, drawn by James Joyce himself (I make this mistake often as well)

He was a bisexual Jewish pedophile cuck who fantasised about being a woman. If he was alive today, he would almost certainly visit tumblr.

>win an argument
>respectfully thank the anon for the discussion

What is your learning method for language?

Je suis en train de apprendre le français maintenant et je suis en train trouver que c'est difficile parce que je n'ai pas aucun leçon ou professeur ou femme ou ta mère pour m'apprendre.

J'ai vraiment besoin de ta mère m'aider.

>Cucked
>Peers think he's weird and try to avoid him
>Constantly eating, and even has food in his pockets
>Spies on girls and jerks off to them in public
Is Leopold Bloom /lit/ incarnate?

bloom

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>>10083964
Even Joyce's little doodle is ambiguous

>goes to the national library to see if statues have anuses
Was he /ourguy/?