/lit/ - Literature

Constantly. My tear ducts are faulty. I'm sending them back to the shop.

Tom Waits belongs on /mu/.

Tom Waits writes about characters.

...I have a feeling he never really hit a woman or got in a fight with a bartender or had chronic acne and said he liked Hitler, etc etc.

I bet old Waits is a nice dad and is real sweet to Kathleen Brennan.

Buk, on the other hand...

>>1841289

>>1841626

I saw him punch a nun in the cunt once. True story. Mate of mine was a roadie for Stevie Nicks - swears blind Tom Waits killed three men in a coke deal that went sour in 1974. Why would he lie abour a thing like that eh?

>>1843443
Tom Waits is blind?? HOLY SHIT

>>1843445

"To swear blind" is an idiom. It means the same thing as "to swear", only more so.

This sentence can be used to describe your first read through of English Patient or Atonement

>>1843450
The idiom requires a finite clause as the object. Thus, your missing "that" (...swears blind that Tom Waits....) is bad grammar and even worse, unclear.

In other words, don't correct me when you're in error.

>>1843460

I didn't make that post, I just offered the most sensible interpretation given that Tom Waits is not blind.

Or is he???

>>1843472
I prefer to think of Tom Waits as only being able to see when he closes his eyes.

tom waits is dancing, dancing. he says that he will never die.

Bluebird by Bukowski...my favorite poem.

Now tell me, why hasn't anyone else called this yet?

"....I would scream
but they have places
for people who scream"

>>1843486
Nicely done, young friend.