/lit/ - Literature

>be me
>arise on the sabbath in a seaside city
>be in a post-inebriated state
>horrid after-effects
>head to town
>'tis midday
>enter my favourite drinkery
>eat mussels
>wait for homebound bus
>have a hair of the dog
>read book
>get comfortable
>miss bus
>"Aw well, I'll get the next one!"
>drink more
>strangers sit around me
>observe my book
>"What are you reading, anon?"
>proceed to talk about literature with new arrivals
>Joyce, Kavanagh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O'Brien, Behan, Mangan etc
>delve into literary talk
>become drunker
>intensely argue a point about A Portrait of the Artist of the Young Man and This Side of Paradise
>hands flail
>knock over female newcomer's expensive wine
>embarrassment sets in
>offer to pay
>refused
>newcomers buy me a pint instead
>continue conversing
>become well-full
>get last bus of the day
>leave merry and delighted

Has your literary knowledge done anything for you, /lit/?

>>14555487
Thank KMD! This was a pleasant browsing moment; to see the Hearthside Issue finally published. My highest praises to you, my good man! Long may this publication persevere.

>>12849794
I am anon, the Irishman,
full of hope and woe
With eyes without light,
hands without ethanol.

Browsing /lit/ on my journey,
with the lustre of my heart
worn and tired,
until the end of my way.

Look at me now
my body to the bar,
reciting poetry
to an ungenerous bastard.