/lit/ - Literature

for those interested in viewing the old google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rbY7SQNd1-T15L89XyOVk0Ekm6gQz_rI4UFCPyVO-Jo/edit?usp=sharing

imagine all the productive things you could have been doing

>>18652520
>uh oh
>our boy Herman
>seamen are gay

how the fuck can i take this seriously?

>>18652543
It was a collective shitpost from an oriental carpet enthusiast image board. Some people took it seriously and some people just wrote memes. It's a mixed bag

>>18652505
This is a very cool project Anon. I anxiously await the paperback release.

>>18652520
>>18652526
this looks pretty nice actually, whats the physical copy going to look like?

>>18652505
Thanks OP

>>18652835
I would like to see the cover page as well. This looks like a really neat project.

>>18652505
sheeit i thought this project died
good to see it finally come to fruition

>>18652505
Very cool, thank you

>>18652835
>>18653012
The image is specifically mentioned by Melville as one of the worst depictions of a sperm whale he had ever seen in his entire life

I was literally about to start Moby Dick tomorrow.
Do you think waiting for this is worth it? Would it be decent for a first time reader?

Bump

>>18653336
Just do it but expect naval jargon
I unironically recommend to read up on basic naval jargon and seafaring before starting, it's a pretty interesting subject anyway

>>18653257
Excellent.

>>18652505
okay BUT WHERES MY &AMP???

BASED BASED BASED
I was thinking about this project Theo their day.

I will add this contribution of mine to my CV from now on.
Fantastic!

>>18653257
This is going to be turbo based.

>>18652505
Very cool; I was almost afraid it would not see the light of day.
I hope the long wait does not impact its reception though: that, as it was a relative while ago, perhaps not all the anons who contributed or were around for it are present now, or that it is experienced less as something "by us," and more as something external, and thus "shilled" (already &amp gets this treatment), like - God forbid! - Gardner...

>>18652505
BASED

>>18652505
Dangeroulsy based. Good work anon
>>18653257
Supremely patrician cover

>>18653336
Start Moby-Dick on your own, but as soon as your copy of this gets in, scim over what you have already read for the footnotes and switch over

>>18652505
>Here is the link for those interested
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>>18653257
False advertising is a crime in most places. You should watch yourself, /lit/.

>>18652505
Coveranon here, I'll get back to you this evening. Real excited to see this thing finally getting published.

>>18655415
Fuck yis

Alright, I'll pick up a copy.

people are shitting on it but you know what? respect. i think ill pick it up.

>>18655190
>>18652508

>>18652505
Finally, I've been waiting for months

Will you write an introduction at all describing /lit/ culture and what the board is in case any random fucker who never used 4chan picks it up from a user book store years later?

>>18657301
Here is one of many direct references to /lit/. Related is from the Preface. The Introduction and Foreword both make references to it as well

when are we gonna do something like this or the Coronameron again???

>>18657423
Maybe, but it will be a long, long time

>>18657462
why

>>18657735
Lot of work and hard to get lit anons to write

>>18657367
Based

Should I take out an ad? Hard to compete with Fucking Gardner

>>18659445
Do it. Fuck that nigger Gardner. I'd rather read Moby Dick with shitpost annotations than his gay alligator book any day of the week.

>>18659461
Dido

guys is the great gatsby not in public domain starting this year..

>>18660452
how is it not Already in the public domain?

I would gladly give a contribution to the /lit/ annotated Great Gatsby edition desu.

>>18652520
This is pretty funny and cool. Might actually read this now.

Are you actually supposed to read footnotes? I never really do.

>>18661201

>>18661199
ikr. I've never actually read this book.

>>18660452
What other good /lit/ books in English are in the public domain? Robinson Crusoe, any Dickens, Butler's Homer, anything else?

>>18661244
Every book written before 1921 is.

>>18661244
Is Dubliners public domain?

>>18661940
All Joyce pre-Finnegans is in the public domain.

>>18661244
off the top of my mind
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/151
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1947
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/125

>>18662292
We'll see how good the /lit/ annotated Moby-Dick turns out to be, but a /lit/ annotated Ulysses sounds like a super fun project

>>18662350
We can get pol to do penelope

Bump

Is there nigger or any other 4chan words mixed into the commentary?
I'm considering buying this for a friend of mine who loves the book but not if that's the case desu.

Considering all the annotations and footnotes I've read in my life, reading a some complied from /lit/ without a doubt seems by far the most accessible and interesting.

As long as it's by people who have genuine feelings towards Moby-Dick and no ironic detachment I'll pick up a copy.

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>>18663469
of course

>>18652520
>RACIST
Fucking pathetic. Lmao@ the life of the mutant who worked hard on this.

>>18652505
guy who painted the dick-in-the-waves here.

is OP pic the cover? really great job, someone knows how to fucking draw. less memey than I expected but high quality enough that all is forgiven.

>>18663615
I'm so worried that I'm gonna read annotations like this and not know whether they're being facetious or it's actually true. This annotation 457 is either sensible-chuckle-tier or a really interesting tidbit and I'm too midwit to know the difference.

anyway, 4chan is probably gonna disappear forever in the next decade, cheers to one of the pinnacles of free speech from our time.

No serious reader of Melville's will tolerate this nonsense. I have a feeling these "annotations" will come across as highly irritating distractions while reading the text.

>>18665714
Based dick in waves. No, cover is shown here >>18653257
OP pic is the frontispiece and its not OC

>>18665761
i sure as hell wouldn't read this for my first reading of moby dick, but it's just harmless fun? i don't see the problem of it. from what i've seen there's a blend of shitposting as well as some neat insights

i dont know why the word wh*te being censored for the entire whiteness of the whale chapter made me laugh as hard as it did

>>18665799
because you're a cowardly ignoramus who casually delights in racism

>>18653336
>I was literally about to start Moby Dick tomorrow.
>Do you think waiting for this is worth it? Would it be decent for a first time reader?
Finished Moby Dick a week back. Don't wait and don't pay this distracting shit gimmick any mind, it's an insult to the immense and profound story which needs exactly zero of the dimwitted cunts here to interject with their pathological need to have been involved in a lit at any cost.

if the physical book cover doesn't have a penis on it I'm not buying

>>18665761
>>18665853
Seethe harder boring cunts

>>18652505
Ngl kinda tempted to buy the printed version of this

>>18652505
how did you anons get the information to annotate the book? did you read annotations of other works or are you just well read?

>>18667074
This is /lit/ bro. We know our shit here

>>18665838
what if I'm just sick of my peers unironically supporting stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

>>18667074
>he doesn't reference himself

Love Moby-Dick

>>18668071
Comf

>>18665889
>Seethe harder boring cunts
, he lisped.

>>18652505
>it isn't interspersed with butters talking about herself
can we really call it /lit/?

>>18665761
oh no, are you telling me this shitpost won't be taken seriously?

>>18665853
Good God! Just jump in a fire already

So is the core text of the novel all in-tact? Just with notes tacked on?

>>18668574
>Good God! Just jump in a fire already
You cry a lot.

>>18668576
>So is the core text of the novel all in-tact? Just with notes tacked on?
>>18665799
>the word wh*te being censored for the entire whiteness of the whale chapter
No, these pathetic twats did not leave the text intact and it's wholly inappropriate to call the smearing of feces a "note."

>>18665853
>>18668615
You can't write like that and then accuse others of crying.

>>18665853
>wah
>>18668615
>no you're crying

>Finished Moby Dick a week back. Don't wait and don't pay this distracting shit gimmick any mind, it's an insult to the immense and profound story which needs exactly zero of the dimwitted cunts here to interject with their pathological need to have been involved in a lit at any cost.

>>18668668
>You can't write like that and then accuse others of crying.
I can't lambast a thing without being in a full weep? You're projecting again, xir.
>>18668696
See above, weakling.
>>18668741
Thank you, allow me to add onto the end,
>and feel as though they're part of something, a new and exciting feeling for these mutants.
Because that's exactly what happened and what's happening, you low iq and lower t poons with no talent wanted to tie yourselves to something classic because the lot of you have severe emotional problems and need a win in life, plus you get to pretend you have friends and peers in the process, but are now in a tizzy over being rightfully belittled for it.

>>18668643
Okay, let me amend >>18668576
Are there any changes to the text where I will not immediately intuitively understand the text exactly as it would appear in any other copy of the work?

>>18669355
Don't read any of the other /lit/ books, you'll have a heart attack.

>>18669355
... what's the source for this pic?