/lit/ - Literature

>In The Atlantic magazine interview, "A Conversation with Gore Vidal" (October 2009), by John Meroney, Vidal spoke about topical and cultural matters of U.S. society. Asked his opinion about the arrest of the film director Roman Polanski, in Switzerland, in September 2009, in response to an extradition request by U.S. authorities, for having fled the U.S. in 1978 to avoid jail for the statutory rape of a thirteen-year-old girl in Hollywood, Vidal said, "I really don't give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?"

>Asked for elaboration, Vidal explained the cultural temper of the U.S. and of the Hollywood movie business in the 1970s:

>''The [news] media can't get anything straight. Plus, there's usually an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing going on with the press—lots of crazy things. The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel, all in white, being raped by this awful Jew Polacko—that's what people were calling him—well, the story is totally different now [2009] from what it was then [1970s] ... Anti-Semitism got poor Polanski. He was also a foreigner. He did not subscribe to American values, in the least. To [his persecutors], that seemed vicious and unnatural."

>—Gore Vidal

>>17872499
>80% of books covers are all stock photos + paperback

I hate this trend so much

>>17739323
I take it back, I don't want you to do me anymore. Never rate me, or my son's poetry ever again.

>>17695582
>Skipped over mine

Man, fuck you, because of that I'm not critiquing yours

David Lynch is the Paul Coelho of cinematography. I was always baffled by his mYsTicaL and pRofOund counterfeit aura. I can't comprehend why he has such a large fanbase.

This awful con man has a 'transcendental meditation' right next to the EU commission in Bruxelles with his stupid face in the window, promising you that you will learn to glide in the aether if you just give him a lot of money for purification sessions.

Everytime I walk past his crook boutique I am reminded that this fraud's only function upon this earth is to dupe pretentious pseuds into worshipping his shit movies

>read novel
>loving it
>suddenly sex scene with fart fetish

>>16005809
I just hope recreational abortion roasties become infertile

>>11899219
>Dostoevsky and Nabokov more expensive than Shakespeare, Dante, Proust, Borges or Melville

>tfw you'll never enter a forum full of open-minded and curious individuals
>it's always pseuds, plebs, shitposters and pretentious activists wasting time and occupying space
How do we break free from this?

I hate the way dating works these days, it's too confusing
Me and this girl who I recently got with (not officially together) talked on the phone for about an hour while she's bored at work today, talk for more throughout the day over text. She's called me beautiful (never been called that by a girl before), told me she likes a certain mannerism of mine last night, etc.
So a few hours ago I tell her I like when she plays the piano to me, how her hands move across the keys and her face full of concentration is very attractive. She responds with "...(heart emoji). I then say lets see each other soon and no response for almost 2 hours now.

Why, why why why? Why can't it be simple? Have phones and texting twisted our interactions so much? Yet at the same time it's almost impossible to not utilize it. I try my best to keep texting and what not to a minimum but sometimes it is necessary. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST RESPOND GODDAMNIT NOTHING MAKES SENSE

>>10898130
pleb

>>10599234
Halfway through my undergrad studies I've had a realization that money is more important than getting a degree which you find interesting.

Does this count?

SOPHISTS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG

>>9691124
>mfw book doesn't rhyme with spook

>female character is promiscuous
>you're expected to care about her well being

>>9017486
>tfw from Texas
>tfw from central Texas so I have a TV accent
How the fuck are foreigners supposed to know where I'm from when I don't talk like a cowboy reeeee