/lit/ - Literature

>>3692916

What're you talking about, oik? His syntax is fine, it's just the kind of phrase that every glib British teenager parrots between Inbetweeners references.

>>3637393

Well, if you were to open Paul H. Fry's 'Theory of Literature' then it'd be the contents of pages 1-259, with only the final forty dedicated to the school you're defending. Plenty to be going on with, I reckon.

>>3537424

Because I'm from a proper country.

Mephistopheles.

>>3475259

Isn't that just typical of an uneducated Irish peasant? Wodehouse wrote modernised Eclogues, pastoral for an industrial age.

>>3462667

There was another thread about it recently. The prevailing opinion seemed to be that it was a 'bad book about imperialism'. I suppose that's the standard of reader we have here. People recycling superficial opinions from high school. If /lit/ was even ten percent as knowledgeable of literature as it is of philosophy, we'd be golden.

>>3237721

Rummy reaction, dear sport. Seems someone's a few spins short of a cyclone! Which college did you attend, Ruskin?

I haven't bought anything in a while: just been cocooned in my room studying for finals. I think the last time I visited a bookshop was in early April - picked up 'Elective Affinities' by Goethe.

Okay, here's the forum. Bare bones, practically nothing on it, but up and running. Incidentally, the address is (.co.uk) because the free hosting comes from a British website - I trust it won't put anyone off!

http://litforum.forumotion.co.uk/

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