/lit/ - Literature

>"Okay," said Bill, and then he fell through the clouds like an anime character in the opening credits and Sarah winked and smiled like an anime waifu.
>Then Phil smirked like when Ironman smirked at Captain America when they were arguing about who had better powers

What would the references in Paradise Lost look like updated for a modern audience?

>There is no word for the day before yesterday in the English language
And no, ereyesterday doesn't count because it has become obsolete

1984 by george orwell is overrated. Discuss.

>>21386455
I literally have a bachelor's in philosophy and I cannot comprehend a single word of Hegel for the love of my life.

>>21286761
the fuck I just read?

Clutching at straws literally comes from people being dragged out of a wheat field to be executed

I am on day 15 of nofap and feel like I am going insane. Please recommend me some books to carry me through bros

I'm an existential epistemolatrist.

Do you read the forewords?

I'm 100 words into this 400 page book and I don't like it, should I bin it? Do u ever give up on books like this? How many pages do u give a book to be good before u bin it?

Anyone feels like biggest loser and laughing stock of entire city/village? I am far from hating myself and I work quite hard to better my fate yet every time I go out I hear some teenage sluts laughing behind my backs. Any literature about that feel? Pessoa is not quite like that

>reading Literotica smut ostensibly set in the UK
>British main character's personality revolves entirely around watching some Yank tv show called "Jeopardy", as does apparently everyone she meets university
So immersion breaking honestly

>foreword spoils the book
>foreword spoils other books by the author
>afterword spoils other books
>footnotes spoil other books

Books to read while 4chan is down?

>>20569069

Yes, and thats a good thing

I got filtered by count of Monte Christo, they kept introducing new characters with new storylines, I couldn't keep up anymore

>>20516026
I'm Leaving
>for... LE BAD

I occasionally have genetic memory caused visions of ruins of a very small medieval stone house somewhere in Scotland

Not a single one of my male friends reads books.

Does writing your thoughts down make you better at expressing them to others? Does writing them down help you understand yourself better? I keep seeing posts on Instagram saying how important it is to write.

>>20343140
>Ah what a nice post, anon is supporting local small buis-
>What can I do to seduce her?

Why are men like this? All you think about is sex.