/lit/ - Literature

>>21990602
>class war against the (white) middle class
What's funny is that the middle class near me in a wealthy part of Maryland is 70% Indian Americans. If you go trick-or-treating over half the families around us are Indians handing out the customary Snickers bars. Will opponents of the middle class turn on Indian Americans too?

What are some poems to help me overcome my gf's sexual past?

I just got a novel accepted by a small but reputable publisher. And what's more, I didn't have to write it.

A couple of years ago I made a habit of digging up books that are so obscure that they are virtually forgotten. No goodreads reviews or even goodreads pages at all- stuff like that. I would read them casually for pleasure and would jot down any exemplary passages I came across in my commonplace book. Eventually I filled several notebooks doing this. Finally I was stuck on a writing project and started going through my notebooks hoping to read something that would give me a jolt of creativity. I was just looking for inspiration. But I came across a sentence so good and so unknown (google searches of it yield only a few unrelated results) that I thought I would just put it in my book. Writers are expected to steal, I figured. I loved the resulting effect on my work so much that I immediately began pilfering my notebooks for any great prose or ideas that could be made to fit in my book. I justified it by thinking of myself as a curator, that I was being artistic if not wholly literary.

Anyway, long story short I now have a finished novel that I would estimate is 85% the work of other, unknown writers. And even some obscure passages and concepts from very famous writers made it in. A publisher that some of you have undoubtedly heard of will be bringing it out sometime in fall 2019. They don't know about my plagiarism or at least haven't mentioned it if they do. Feels good man.

Book-shelter-life only last that much. And then what?

>>11381060
>>11381043
>>11381000
guys, how do you cope with work in terms of having free time for reading, I could use some advice? my neet days are coming to an end.

>>11201928
this man knows.

lit is frog

JEREMY IRONS DOES LOLITA
MUST

>ywn understand words as those that created them did
Has alphabetisation and the ubiquitousness of writing permanently ruined my mind, locked me in to a certain way of thinking?
I cannot but think of words in terms of letters, and yet for most of these words' histories, they weren't thought about in that way by most people.
I was talking to somebody about how plurals work in German, where in some words a vowel gains an umlaut, and so "Hand" becomes "Hände", "Kuh" becomes "Kühe" (whereas in "Hund", it doesn't, and it becomes "Hunde"). But I realized that not only my explanation, but my entire way of thinking about the words revolved around letters. How would a common, illiterate 19th century mother explain that to her child? How would she be thinking about it?

It seems I've been completely shut out from one approach to words and language, and not a marginal one, but the one of most of our ancestors.

Corto Maltese, imagine Rimbaud, Conrad, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Borges distilled in 'ninth art'

I know those feels.

>>11094393
read, read, read, read everyday.
(write on weekends)

>tfw have avoidant personality disorder
>can't even post on 4chan without the fear of looking like an idiot.
>have literally never talked to a girl, start shaking and sweating when a girl sits near me.

I'm past the point of any hope. I'm just looking for some book recommendations with characters who struggle from similar things so I don't feel like the biggest loser on earth.