/lit/ - Literature

>Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the way he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him. Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging. He said he'd think about it but it would take him a while to decide. I pointed out that we'd have to know soon, because Howard, who is a conductor, would have to hire and rehearse the musicians and he couldn't begin until he knew what the music was going to be. Colby said he'd always been fond of Ives's Fourth Symphony. Howard said that this was a "delaying tactic" and that everybody knew that the Ives was almost impossible to perform and would involve weeks of rehearsal, and that the size of the orchestra and chorus would put us way over the music budget. "Be reasonable," he said to Colby. Colby said he'd try to think of something a little less exacting.
>Hugh was worried about the wording of the invitations. What if one of them fell into the hands of the authorities? Hanging Colby was doubtless against the law, and if the authorities learned in advance what the plan was they would very likely come in and try to mess everything up. I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far. We agreed that the invitations would be worded in such a way that the person invited could not know for sure what he was being invited to. We decided to refer to the event as "An Event Involving Mr. Colby Williams." A handsome script was selected from a catalogue and we picked a cream-colored paper. Magnus said he'd see to having the invitations printed, and wondered whether we should serve drinks. Colby said he thought drinks would be nice but was worried about the expense. We told him kindly that the expense didn't matter, that we were after all his dear friends and if a group of his dear friends couldn't get together and do the thing with a little bit of eclat, why, what was the world coming to? Colbv asked if he would be able to have drinks, too, before the event. We said,"Certainly."

>>20858197
My diary desu

>>20845829
>remember that only 7 of Aeschylus' plays survive
>countless masterpieces equivalent to the complete works of Shakespeare just gone

>>20561973
He's right. Even if you start fucking in your twenties, you'll always bear the mark of sexual reject. Teenage romance is the most important developmental milestone in your life.

>>19728142
No woman will ever look at me like this

>>19557534
Count me in

>>18764953
>a year
You're like a baby. Try 11.

>>18619604

>>18587371
This

>>18539624

>>18082596
>tfw I remember the shitty fanfics I made when I was 12
Worst thing is that they are still on the internet, and I posted them under my real name.

>take 4 hours to read 25 pages of nonfiction
fucking kill me. I'm so retarded

>>18039607
H-haha yeah

>>17945048
>have a gf for for 3 years, late high school and junior year of college
>I'm also hanging out with classmate Chad who scams me on shitty weed
>in last year of the relationship, gf starts behaving weirdly and disrespects me
>Chad behaves weirdly around me as well
>both are dropping hints, independently
>both are noticing my mental decline and mock me
>social circle picks up on this and starts dropping hints as well
>everything is denied with a smirk when I start asking questions
>gf dumps me
>obviously they were fucking behind my back and laughing at me the whole time
Anyway, literature for this feel?

>>17745169
>Mom, do you see me?
>Yes, but I don't want to.

>>17352762
>Wagner had taught himself Homeric Greek and was translating large portions of the Iliad and Odyssey at the age of 9

>Wagner had taught himself ancient Greek and was translating large portions of the Iliad and Odyssey at the age of 9
I will never be a literary genius.

>>16890586
urk.. guh..

Raskolnikov
Oblomov
Kochan
Ignatius Reilly

>>15014040
>wanted to publish in the Lit Quarterly this year
>i haven't finished anything

OP back again, I pussied out.

What use is all my books when I have no friends, future or happiness?

>tfw INFP

What is the best life-denying literature?