/lit/ - Literature

>>2114290
>mfw Prole is silent on the #1

Really though, how often does TAR get sci-fi/fantasy/horror submissions, Prole? Got any this month? Fill us in.

http://www.livestream.com/djeez

Watching Forrest Gump, at the start right now.

>>2025923
Do mine eyes deceive me? A farce, you devil, spawn of the demon of days.
Stop insulting our contract, and repay me with what I say! A double, I'll call!

Wagner

Pardon me, but it’s a great delight 570
When, moved by the spirit of the ages, we have sight
Of how a wiser man has thought, and how
Widely at last we’ve spread his word about.

Faust

Oh yes, as widely as the constellations!
My friend, all of the ages that are gone 575
Now make up a book with seven seals.
The spirit of the ages, that you find,
In the end, is the spirit of Humankind:
A mirror where all the ages are revealed.
And so often it’s all a mere misery 580
Something we run away from at first sight.
A pile of sweepings, a lumber room, maybe
At best, a puppet show, that’s bright
With maxims, excellent, pragmatic,
Suitable when dolls’ mouths wax dramatic! 585

Wagner

But, the world! Men’s hearts and minds!
Something of those, at least, I’d like to know.

Faust

Yes, what men choose to understand!
Who dares to name the child’s real name, though?
The few who knew what might be learned, 590
Foolish enough to put their whole heart on show,
And reveal their feelings to the crowd below,
Mankind has always crucified and burned.
I beg you, friend, it’s now the dead of night,
We must break up this conversation. 595

Wagner

I would have watched with you, if I might
Speak with you still, so learned in oration.
But tomorrow, on Easter’s first holy day,
I’ll ask my several questions, if I may.
I’ve pursued my work, zealously studying: 600
There’s much I know: yet I’d know everything.
(He leaves.)