/lit/ - Literature

>Call me Ishmael.

>>11061709
What does stately mean?

>>11062500
like a big guy

>>11062500
Like a state, that is, oppressively, hegemonically, patriarchily.

>>11062500
Like, Europe is plump with states that have not yet overflown into a somewhat chaotic nation of individuals, rather than a continent full of states to which individuals adhere

>Connor knew it was Ozzie at the door because Ozzie knocked on doors like he was trying to knock through them.
Stopped reading there.

>Dawn with her finger tips of rose

>>11061709

The introductory sentence for Portrait is far worse than this, and is a greater proof that people who read and write and criticize literary ficiton are idiots who can be rejected out of hand. I correctly excoriated them before you made this thread, a few weeks earlier, in like terms.

>Smugly, lewd Bert Mortensen took a trip of three steps from the top of the stairs, having just learned that his momma had died that day; or was it the day before? The sky above Howth castle and environs was the colour of a 404'ed 4chan thread. He was a man of many twists and turns who, while walking in the woods at about the midpoint of his life's journey, saw the spirit of God hovering above the face of the waters.
>"Call me Bismillah", he quipped.

>>11061709
>>11062529
both of these made me fuckin' lol

>>11062617
hahah i know right good lols

>Come up, Kinch, Come up, you fearful jesuit

>>11062504
For whom?

>>11062529
Jesus christ, ten different openings parodied in four sentences. Who made this?

>>11062705
Ulysses, Lolita, Neuromancer, Finnegans Wake, Moby-Dick

What are the other ones?

>>11062718
>maman died, etc
The Stranger
>a man of many twists and turns
The most subtle one - the word "polytropos" literally means many-turned and describes Odysseus at the beginning of the Odyssey. It's a cool word that always gets translated slightly differently, and "a man of twists and turns" was used in one translation, can't remember which. That woman who just translated it was mocked on /lit/ because she translated it as "complicated."
>walking in the woods at about the midpoint of his life's journey
The Divine Comedy
>the spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters
Genesis
>Bismillah
The first words of the Quran and traditionally the first words in a bunch of other Islamic stuff. Literally means "in the name of the lord" or something.

>>11062699
for the Irishman

>>11062743
Also I forgot to say that "he quipped" is almost definitely a leak from /tv/ making fun of Marvel movies.
It feels strange to be able to read this far into something that would just seem like poorly-constructed nonsense to most people. Reading TLoTiaT felt similar - every page is inundated with meaning that is literally completely incomprehensible to anybody who isn't intimately familiar with not only 4chan culture but the specific styles of shitposts native only to /lit/. There might be, what, 10,000 people on earth who cam actually get everything there is to get in that book? Less? And in 100 years, if any extant copies of the book still exist, the number of people who can really, truly grasp it will be zero.
Makes me wonder how much of everything I read is going way over my head. Fuck.

>>11062694

Come up, you Infinite Jestuit.

>>11063768
kek

>>11062500
>
a big dog

>>11062766
I've always felt memes are partially a call-and-response password system to check if the person you're talking to is /really/ part of your in-group.

Like posting WHEN I WAS on /b/ or STANDING on /v/ or You're a big guy on /tv/. All of these phrases are a call, and they all have a response: A YOUNG BOY, ON THE EDGE, for you.

>>11064474
And in a century, when everyone on this board is long dead, some donated copy of the book will rot on a library shelf full of calls with no response.

>>11062529
I see the Quran, Divine Comedy, Lolita, Ulysses, Finegans Wake, Neuromancer, The Stranger, Moby-Dick, Genesis, and The Odyssey.

>>11062504
Wrong.

>>11066125
ur wrong

>>11062529
Reference comedy was a mistake.

It's an amazing sentence. Really makes you think of a big guy for you just jostling down the staircase.

>>11064500
Alternatively: Krapp's Last Tape

>>11061709
i dropped it there desu. was expectimg stream of consciousness and got punny quippy shite