/lit/ - Literature

> play section of novel starts

>story has novels inserted into poems as part of the chapter

Damn you, Iliad. Damn you.

>>15195116
>chapter starts with a famous quote

>>15195116
>anthology of outdated out of context cetacean excerpts predates chapter 1

>most chapters start with a verse from Byron

>>15196463
the first time I realized Stephen King was a hack was when he quoted Haunting of Hill House

>>15196553
what the fuck is a sub sub librarian?

>each chapter has its own title
the fucking book already has a title, now you're telling me instead of the one book it's really twelve small books

>>15196969
a subsub is a type of pokemon, so a subsub that works as a librarian. im 99.9999% sure of this

>>15196553
This was extremely based though

>>15195116
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>>15196990
You lads didn’t like Gravity’s Rainbow?

>>15196553
This was kind of kino tho, you realize how much the whale has been a part of human history in a spectral way, never understood, a mysterious leviathan, the most dangerous opponent, there since the beginning of time.

>>15196553
predates?

you mean antedate?

Pale Fire is a masterpiece though

>>15196969

A sub librarian is a librarian's assistant.

A sub sub librarian is a librarian's assistant who likes to be whipped by her lover.

>>15196553
Ishmaels notes are great though

>>15197432
Why do people say Nabokov’s prose sucked?

>>15195116
>novel has poems inserted into chapters as part of the story
that's fucking cool

>>15195153
>play section of novel starts
???


>>15195221
>story has novels inserted into poems as part of the chapter
also this is fucking cool

>>15196463
>chapter starts with a famous quote
ok this is not cool, but if the book is good i dont care

>>15196553
>anthology of outdated out of context cetacean excerpts predates chapter 1
LOL wtf
???

>>15196990
>each chapter has its own title
this is nice

>muh precious little narrative novels

>>15195116
>be Scott
>write Ivanhoe
>add a poem of some poet before every chapter
>reader knows instantly what will go down in the chapter and is super-hyped
10/10

>>15195116
>be John Williams
>write Nothing but the night
>add poem before the novel
>"Fear nothing, man, nought's to dread
>look not left nor right
>for on every path you tread
>there's nothing but the night"
>reader keeps this in mind until the last page
11/10

>>15195153
The play section was based

>>15195116
>chapter starts with a quote from a character in the novel