/lit/ - Literature

>"And then they realized they were no longer little girls: they were little women."

>favourite book is Harry Potter
>want to discuss it
>come to /lit/ for the first time
>all these obscure books being posted
>they're talking about things like themes and meanings
>they keep using hard words
>tfw feel dumb

>lit professor is wonderfully read and very knowledgeable about all types of literature
>afraid of talking to him about books because you're afraid of looking like a pleb

>"It's your mate," Doctor Isaac assur'd him, "It's what happens when your Mate dies."

>tfw all those ancient greek and roman statues you loved in all their grey glory were supposed to be painted

>>4358073

>they start talking about sex and relationships

>Singer

Go fuck yourself.

>>3504704
that's really depressing. i'm less than a decade away from 30, and i hope to shit this doesn't happen to me.

Hello /lit/. I'm applying to do English Literature at University and i need a really good quote to end on. Been at it for a while so I'm pretty tired of thinking, and so i thought this would be the ideal board to come to for the icing on the cake of my Personal Statement.

IDK, I once got into an argument over kanye west being the best artist/lyricist of our time.

it was with someone like this
>>2878610

I eventually gave up because he would only let me compare him to artists within the same genre (which is mostly shit). Then when I did find one that I could argue was better it was

>it's all subjective anyway
>it's all relative

that's when I gave up trying to talk about these things.