/lit/ - Literature

>>23393193

>>22936591
SAME OLD GAME
LOVE IN VAIN
AND MILES AND MILES AND MILES AND MILES AND MILES
AWAY FROM HOME AGAIN

how do we get over the fact no matter how great and sublime literature is, it still gets btfo by music

>>22491879
>>22492816
>Tennessee Williams self-taught does it
>Kinsey with a deafening report does
>Let's do it
>Let's fall in love

>>22379405
Britons will never be slaves

>What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
>Present mirth hath present laughter;
>What's to come is still unsure:
>In delay there lies no plenty,
>Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,
>Youth's a stuff will not endure.
https://youtu.be/JrkxiEggUEQ

>>21343784
> Alexander Pushkin, the 19th-century father of Russian literature, was a nigger, so that might explain your interest in the period too.
kek

>>20697126
I wish I didn't sell myself into student debt slavery before I knew what life was really like. 18 years old really is an awful time to get targeted by usury, and better hope your parents weren't negligent or retarded.

What's your debt load? I'm in the 40k range... (Majored in Fine Art)

ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO YOU NI
SHONEN YO SHINWA NI NARE

I'm looking for how to become more depressed because there is some solace in feeling sad and sorry for yourself.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can get depression or make it worse?

It sounds preferable to boredom at least.

The scene of Lolita playing tennis is certainly the highlight for me. In the imagery he paints there, Humbert succeeds, more so than anywhere else in the novel, in capturing once and for all the "perilous magic of nymphets." Nabokov even saw it fit to anoint this scene with a butterfly flying by her and the tennis net.

The Ramsdale class list is also a deeply disturbing but interesting scene, and includes my favorite line of the book "...the rest of that colorful classroom around my Dolorous and Hazy darling..."
Also, a scene stands out to me in which Humbert takes Lolita to a play directed by Quilty with 6 other school-children in it, each dressed as one of the colors of the rainbow. It is particularly evocative as well, especially since it makes use of the same symbolism when Humbert explains he hurried Lolita out of the theatre before she could make contact with anyone else there, and contrasts her to the colorful kids onstage by calling her "my own ultraviolet darling."

These kinds of subtle nods that Lolita's childhood is being taken from her have such a sad punch to them.

>>19064588
>tfw never had any friends to call me

>>18898966
>>18899144
This
>>18899381
>Complete Short Stories and the Selected Essays
Don't get these. If you're reading in English, the only good translations are the Giovanni ones. (Kerrigan for the the ones Giovanni didn't translate) Steer clear of the Hurley translation

How do you write arguments between characters? I try to escalate normal discussions towards arguments but it always seems fake and forced

I can't even begin to imagine studying remotely, I have zero motivation working from home and have to force myself through it, if I was studying I'd be failing all my classes.
Working from home is fucking torture, it's a slow and painful agony. It takes all joy away from me.
Just give me the vaccine already, feed me the bugs, I don't fucking care anymore I want it to stop

Listen to Glenn Gould's playing of Bach.

itt: butthurt ESLs

>>10899368
well that was all shit