/lit/ - Literature

a ship.

Woah! And does she but drift! In her magnanimous countenance she wavers not in the face of the coming torrent! Massive! Massive! Yet swift in her rotation. Beauty is but a word, but in her presence it is conceptualized.

But enough about vaginas.

This boat is big, green, and stacked with colorful boxes. It is a cargo ship. fag

The ship swims, it navigates? Maybe so, couldn't see that well from the place I where I was...

Aww shit, get your towels ready it's about to go down (shorty, yeah)
Everybody in the place hit the fucking deck (shorty, yeah)
But stay on your motherfucking toes
We running this, let's go
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat (sailing on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking boat (boat, yeah)
I'm on a boat motherfucker take a look at me
Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea
Busting five knots, wind whipping out my coat
You can't stop me motherfucker cause I'm on a boat
Take a picture, trick (trick)
I'm on a boat, bitch (bitch)
We drinking Santana champ,
Cause it's so crisp (crisp)
I got my swim trunks
And my flippie-floppies
I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's
Straight flipping copies
I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit
The dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet
But this ain't Seaworld, this is real as it gets
I'm on a boat, motherfucker, don't you ever forget
I'm on a boat and
It's going fast and
I got a nautical themed
Pashmina afghan
I'm the king of the world
On a boat like Leo
If you on the shore,
Then you sure not me-oh
Get the fuck up, this boat is REAL!!!
Fuck land, I'm on a boat, motherfucker (motherfucker)
Fuck trees, I climb buoys, motherfucker (motherfucker)
I'm on the deck with my boys, motherfucker (yeah)
This boat engine make noise, motherfucker
Hey ma, if you could see me now (see me now)
Arms spread wide on the starboard bow (starboard bow)
Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow (moon somehow)
Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible
Yeah, never thought I'd be on a boat(let's go)
It's a big blue watery road (yeah)
Poseidon
Look at me, oh (all hands on deck)
Never thought I'd see the day
When a big boat coming my way
Believe me when I say
I fucked a mermaid
I'm on a boat
I'm on a boat
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat (woaah)
I'm on a boat
I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look at the mothafuckin' boat (sha-sha-shorty, shorty, yeah)

>>14149708
truly the modern Hermann Melville, absolutely based

The fact that the ship has China Shipping Line written on its side. Shipping, shipped, whipped, weigh the anchor, what a wanker. The fact that shipping containers are 6 feet wide and 18 feet long. The fact that they are stacked 8 high.

The West
It's dying
No
NO!
The West is kill

>>14149720
you're doing it wrong anon isn't it supposed to be one long sentence?

>>14149705
Was going to shit on you then the wonderful end of your post came. Wow!

>>14149683
thats a big ship
lot of cargo
thats a big ship
and thats what she is
And that is why her hull looks like a hulk
and thats the biggest ship i have ever seen
So why does the big ship look so big
and that is why her hull looks like a hulk
and thats the biggest ship i have ever seen
Its not a big ship at all Its a big hull
Its not a big ship at all Its a big hull
its a big hull it looks like a big ship
its a big hull
its a big hull it looks like a big ship
and thats why her hull looks like a hulk
and thats the biggest ship i have ever seen
its not a big ship at all It is a big hull
its a big hull it looks like a big ship
its a big hull it looks like a big ship
its a big hull it looks like a big ship
its a big hull its a big hull

it's a big ship

it's a big ship it's a big ship

I'm the big ship
it's a big ship

But I was the ship

And I was the ship

So I was the ship

But now I'm the ship

And I'm the ship

And now I'm the ship

I'm the ship

It's a big ship

it's a big ship

I'm the big ship

it's a big ship it's a big ship

But I was the ship

And I was the ship

So I was the ship

But now I'm the ship

And I'm the ship

And now I'm the ship

I'm the ship

I'm the ship

It's a big ship

it's a big ship

I'm the big ship

it's a big ship it's a big ship

I had spent the entire day with a captain who reminded me of Ahab from Moby Dick. The contrast with Melville's character was more than clear, for the captain was a Chinaman named Lao Lee. The ship had departed from Hong Kong to Isle of Man, a small island far from British territory. Once we landed on Anglo soil Lao and I went to the closest pub in search of a nice pint, we had the fortune of sharing the drink with some artists who saw themselves as poets.

that's one big motherfucking cargo ship

carrying all those fat containers and shit

that's one big as hell boat

carrying all those fuckers

That's one big motherfucking cargo ship

carrying all those fat containers and shit

that's one big as fuck motherfucker


Oh yeah, you hear the motherfucking ship?

Oh yeah, you hear the motherfucking ship?


There she goes, there she goes

There she goes, there she goes

The motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking motherfucking

>>14149683
For sale: Chinese goods, better never worn.

>>14150161
This would make a good song

>>14150161
>a big ship
>for you

Favorite part of these threads is that nobody takes them seriously for fear of being ridiculed. How insincere

>>14149683
Big fuckoff cargo ship, from China. Maybe my roommates desk-size mousemat with a lewd print of his waifu, the bitch from Overlord, on it will be in one of the containers that falls over the side. There'd be something poetic in that, I think.

>>14149683
"The very means of communication presuppose such unification. Great ocean-going vessels necessitate continually improved port installations everywhere. Railroads demand identical roadbeds in all countries. Aviation requires a whole technical substructure which is becoming more important day by day and which must become ever more uniform as tonnage and speed increase.

The creation of the port of Lavera, near Port-de-Bouc, is a case in point. To construct a harbor for oil tankers to meet the demands of the French market, it was necessary to conform exactly to the international requirements of petroleum shipping. These demands are wholly technical: depth of channel for modem tankers of more than 30,000 tons, special docks, relay reservoirs fitted with technical improvements exactly adapted to the tankers, and so on. It was clearly impossible to continue to do without these facilities. In French home ports today, the petroleum brought in by the large tankers must first be discharged by small lighters to
plants which are either floating installations or of insufficient pumping capacity. This results in loss of time and excessive handling. Every ton of crude oil bears an extra burden of approximately three dollars. These factors are clear and are leading to the acceptance of the most modem procedures— which reciprocally contributes to world-wide technical unification.
...
Technical invasion does not involve the simple addition of new values to old ones. It does not put new wine into old bottles; it does not introduce new content into old forms. The old bottles are all being broken. The old civilizations collapse on contact with the new. And the same phenomenon appears under every possible cultural form. Take, for example, religion. We have seen one religion
disappear under our very eyes as a result of a technical fact: Mikado worship vanished after the bomb was dropped at Hiroshima. We are witnessing the collapse of Buddhism under Communist pressure in Tibet and China. And, according to recent studies. Buddhism is vanishing for technical reasons, not because of the ideological effect of Communism. The phenomenon is due, on the one hand, to a brutal and massive infusion of industrial techniques and, on the other, to the use of propaganda techniques which entail the abandonment of religion by the ever growing population. In a certain sense these religious people are not left without religion. To their transcendental religion a “social” religion is opposed, a religion which is but an expression of technical progress."

boat float

The big green, very green. So green in fact it smells of dollars. Ah the multi color, very multicolor. So multicolored in fact it smells of ¥.

Ps.I know I’m great, and my prose deserves more than 4chin, but I like to stay with the plebs.

>>14149683
Its great bulk betrayed the gluttony of its recipient and the immorality of its owners - a great mass of shipping containers stacked in knock-off lego colors. It would harden the arteries of commerce when it reached San Diego, Oriental cackling echoing over the Pacific as they stuffed the ignorant retard to death, hoping he would part with his PIN before he suffocated in his own indulgence.

>>14149683

It captured the image of a ship out to see. A minimalistic central framing that left both the top and bottom exposed with the grey sky and sea respectively. Multicolored boxes rest heavy upon the boat from bow to stern (nautical terms, look them up). These large boxes stacked 9 high at least in places and 4 high in other (fewer) sections.

The inability to see the true bottom of these stacks beyond the back row lend them all an endless inference. As though the boxed extend endlessly into the ship out to sea.

My new office chair rests in one box, my new desk in another, and if it is defective, I'll give it to my mother.

>>14149683
Marking its presence over the waters, the container ship sets for yet another journey

>>14149683

A firm slug upon the wave, so the Chinese barge went, indifferent to its weight, either blind or wisely resolute.

>>14150553
Nice

>>14149683
I want to read the complete inventory of what that ship transports. hopefully it'll be varied and not just 5000 containers of basedbeans.

>>14150100

the fact that the ship has China Shipping Line written on its side shipping, shipped, whipped, weigh the anchor, what a wanker the fact that shipping containers are 6 feet wide and 18 feet long the fact that they are stacked 8 high the fact that the ship has China Shipping Line written on its side shipping, shipped, whipped, weigh the anchor, what a wanker the fact that shipping containers are 6 feet wide and 18 feet long the fact that they are stacked 8 high the fact that the ship has China Shipping Line written on its side shipping, shipped, whipped, weigh the anchor, what a wanker the fact that shipping containers are 6 feet wide and 18 feet long the fact that they are stacked 8 high the fact that the ship has China Shipping Line written on its side shipping, shipped, whipped, weigh the anchor, what a wanker the fact that shipping containers are 6 feet wide and 18 feet long the fact that they are stacked 8 high

>>14150106
Massive! Massive!

>>14149705
Actually funny as shit bravo anon

>>14149683
The concentrated suffering of untold millions makes a perilous journey across land and sea so an American can avoid the hardship of erecting his filth sodden layers of flesh from a leather sofa

>>14149683
TOOOT TOOOT here comes the plastic shit for the dumb goys

Picture a man, his back bent
from the tonnes sent
Far across the sea, from beyond
the Indian subcontinent, across the pond

There, There! Above the horizon he sees:
The tower of terror!
A flag, five stars in upper left
set upon the red, red blood in which freedom rests.

It signals the crossing
Of the dog-sallad tossing
people.

It approaches! The tower of terror,
The ship, product of ancient mongolese error,
These peoples hath allowed to persist
with sewer oil frying, they never desist.

The man, for sure no lout
In the sweat of his brow, his job nigh
The longshoreman cries out
"I didn't know they could stack shit that high!"

>>14149683
The ship
She left the port
yes
YES
The ship is sailing

>>14149683
i remember the time i was on vacation in panama. i was 15, the hotel room had a massive balcony and view of the canal. i just sat on the balcony with binoculars watching the ships come and go for hours. the grey horizon, the grey sea. does anyone work in the shipping industry ?

>>14149683
that's a huge ship
i hope i can avoid it
if only there was a book about that

>>14149683
This Chad cargo ship has never even heard of waves. The arrows on its hull carelessly point towards the ocean floor. The virgin patrol boat approaches cautiously, its windows pointed well below Chad's deck.

>>14149683
"I hate the Chinese," the swarthy tugboat operator muttered through fat lips, words passing rough over black stubble. "I hate my fucking job and I hate the Chinese." A voice piped up from beneath him: "Don't you think that's a little insensitive?" it implored. The operator mulled this over for a second, cradling his fat chin in his hand. He then smacked the twink beneath him, sending him flying sideways. "Don't talk."

>>14149705
>magnanimous countenance
Generous face

big chink boat bringing cheap chink shit to dumb westeners - many such cases!

>>14151973
BASED fuck the chinks and fuck NIGGERS

>>14149683
Statement about ship.
Statement about how captalism is bad and not aesthetic (possibly alludes to socialism or communism).
Sad statement about future of society.

>>14150304
Beautiful

>>14149683
Rub-a-dub-dub, fifteen men in a tub.
A container ship's an exclusive club.
Thanks to technology
and impending eschatology,
the few lads aboard can barely fill up a pub.

>>14150179
bretty good

>>14150232
>>14150487

based

>Rook-a at da big-a ship, Bing-Bing! You see da wan dat say a "Yang Ming?" You rittle seestah Kai Lan ina dat whon!

>>14149683
Consoomers here i come

>>14150861
Thank you

It is a familiar and ordinary arrangement.
A route is dispatched today by government-subsidized carrier China Shipping, contracted under eminent international shippers UASC, Hamburg Süd, and Yang Ming, among others. Presumably, the sophisticated logistical operation is the responsibility of a unique chain of historical circumstance. Its shadow weighs only passively (if at all) on the minds of the workers though, who are not impressed upon by anything but mere routine. And routinely speaking, routes are calculated weeks beforehand by complex algorithms without human intervention, crews are given departure dates, and cargo is loaded on ships sequentially by destination port to match the ship's visitation order.
This present route, however, is in fact slightly different. Two things make today unique.
1. It is the maiden voyage of the CSCL Globe, the largest commercial container ship in history!
2. China Shipping is expected to merge with COSCO, another government carrier, due to a general falling confidence in the overseas shipping industry.
Therefore, routine is just a bit disrupted, and there are some special details involved, constantly provoking and tugging at sleepy minds. Political concerns for face and economic concerns for the future of the industry among the stressors.
Soon, in a few days, the Globe will come into view of the English port Felixstowe. Briefly, mutually, the crew and dockworkers will think in parallel. The unconscious weight of mundanity will be whisked away as oriental virgin steel tastes new waters. A few hearts will beat just slightly faster, some gazes will be harder. It will be fleeting, of course: the day will still be long and nothing of real excitement will have happened. But the shadow of history will hang more visibly over both parties. The sheer size of the vessel will be newly apparent, the mechanical precision of its shape, the vibrant (and rare in nature) colors of the cargo terminals and branding, the mystery of navigation now solved and perfected; all the vague half-remembered details will variously spark up. Ten thousand years since agriculture, ten thousand years of suffering and progress will lead to the photographing of the CSCL Globe at Felixstowe.

t. wikipedia pro

>>14149683
i think i know that ship

>>14154877
great

>>14151484
I liked this a lot

>>14154877

Actually kinda interesting read. Best in thread

>>14155027
fucked up noun gender though (ships are feminine)

Another big-ass ship full of containers full of boxes full of garbage. Gotta have it. Gotta ship it. God I love Chinese garbage.

>>14149683
As Carl looked out to the sea after sitting on the pier bench, he felt a sudden disdain for the Chinese. He never was one to fall for the trickery of racism, yet somehow the thought of Chinamen being leaders of the world repulsed him. Hungry, he stood up and went into town to eat at the local Panda Express.

>>14149708
Based and Based

>>14150487
I really liked the first part

>>14151973
That's actually good

>>14155115
True Garbaggio, make an effort

A container ship passed by on the river then. I stared at it. It was almost more container than ship. For a while I wondered what was in the containers. Then I wondered why I cared, and why the inevitably mundane and boring contents were somehow rendered exciting by the not-really-a-mystery that shrouded them. Neither electronics nor flatpack furniture interest me, but a box that could be either arouses curiosity. Why? Does it matter? Are any of those boxes for me? Probably not. Yet I still want to know what is inside them. Not knowing disappoints me, even though it is also immaterial to me.

I feel that way about a lot of things these days. My job isn't bad but maybe I should have been a researcher. Would my life be different if I was more attractive? Perhaps I should go travelling. The potential of these ideas seduces me, but I'm not biting. I've followed my fancies before and been as miserable in them as I was before them. The mystery is better than the flatpack furniture, I guess. Rather - I know. And so it is that I reveal another mystery. If I'm unhappy doing the mundane, and equally unhappy manifesting my fantastic, where then am I happy? Another mystery, perhaps, that I prefer intact rather than solved.

So the container ship passed me by, and I let it go.

>>14149683
The ship was enormous, Jackley thought it had to dwarf anything that had ever lived. It was so big in fact that it seemed to provoke the ocean on which it lived, to look down on with hubristic malice.
The tons of money green paint it was draped in, its seemingly infinite contents, sheltered from chaos inside safe, colourful containers, the impossible order that reigned on it, its unstoppable forward motion, impervious to nature itself, all seemed to mock the docile, aimless water it displaced with such ease.

>>14156268
Genuinely quite good.

>>14156268
That's a great take, you took me on a short journey and dropped me off gracefully at its end

>>14156268
I'm crying. What the hell anon this was beautiful.

>>14149683
The barge lumbered forward through the harbor. Observing the cargo, stacked eight containers high throughout, the image of an overly burdened pack mule comes to mind. I often wonder how the mule is able to trod forward, how his legs do not buckle from the immense strain they endure. Likewise I sat on the docks peering out at the crawling behemoth wondering how such a load could rest so gently and calmly on the water's surface. In a word, buoyancy. Yes, that is the scientific principle undergirding the ship and the myriad wares aboard, but stating it so plainly seems to rob the scene of some of its weight. Like a drama whose climactic ending has been revealed prematurely, I would have preferred to sit marvelling in willful, blissful ignorance at how this grotesque charade should continue. At any moment the bay could buckle and I would watch as the behemoth sank slowly and helplessly into the chilly embrace of the waters below. The thought of this etches a wry smile on my face. But no! Man in his ever greater wisdom has discovered and exploited the idea of buoyancy to allow such ships, massive though they may be, peace of mind during their crossing. Here is no different, and so the barge trudges ominously and spitefully forward.

>>14156268

Very good anon. Thank you

>>14149683
I was sitting in the port of Rouen, waiting for Tisserand. Not too far on the open sea, I could see one of those big, modern cargo ships, loaded with boxes. I guess it was carrying some of those new gadget that is now essential to modern life.
I was struck by the image of this enormous ship floating on the calm sea, like some oversized pachyderm. Truly ugly, to be frank. Maybe its captain had given it a loving, girly name. Maybe Françoise, or Virginie. Actually, Babette was more suited to its enormous and disgracious silhouette.
The ship reminded me of how I myself was just calmly floating through my life, with the vague hope that something would happen, even though I knew I was deceiving myself.
Tisserand was 30 minutes late, and the weather was cold. I went back to the hotel.

Brother Red recalls the nightmare
of a lonely lot last night
spent awaiting definition
by a spotlight thick and bright

Brother Teal felt the paintbrush
overwrite what was his name
to a lie befit for buyers
unaccustomed to the game

Sister White remembered last time
sailing out the sardine seas
handled roughly by a neighbor
holding on to Brother Green

Father Blue prepared to shush them
strapped them down in family lines
all the while ignoring little screams
now muffled deep inside

Shipping lines of fresh-faced siblings
further east than ever set
passing families stacked far higher
greeting brothers never met

what a big dumb ship. what a stupid brown river, to hell with it all. I don't want to describe the damned ship I want to dive into the murk and filth until the rusted bastard and all the little yellow ants inside it are nothing but another shitty memory. I want to open my mouth and fill it with the sea. You are all robots anyway, so try and stop me I know you couldn't survive the water

>>14154877
Beyond the cursory research, your prose is pretty dang good-- in the final paragraph especially.

>>14154996
Thank you.

>>14149683
oriental titan, arriving to destroy
i welcome him!
china namba wan