/lit/ - Literature

bomp

Start with the books.

Considering how this is a meme thread, does anyone have the picture of the 19th century looking chap smoking opium on a couch?

its usually used for the OP of 'living le literary lifestyle' threads

C'est un trou de verdure où chante une rivière,
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent ; où le soleil, de la montagne fière,
Luit : c'est un petit val qui mousse de rayons.

Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue,
Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort ; il est étendu dans l'herbe, sous la nue,
Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumière pleut.

Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort. Souriant comme
Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme :
Nature, berce-le chaudement : il a froid.

Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine ;
Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine,
Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.

>>5954125
I can resume his life for you :
He started writing poems very young. When still in High School he sent some of his poems to famous people in Paris. Response was positive. He flew from home to go to Paris. He staid in Paris several weeks, got buggered by Verlaine in the process. Then his parents took him back to the country.
He then flew to London with Verlaine. More fucking.
They went to Brussels. That's where it went ugly. Verlaine tried to shoot him, and went to jail.
Then Rimbaud gave up writing and started travelling. He died of disease several decades later.
End of story.

>>5954403
Is Christianity the official /lit/ religion?

>>5954403
this one?

>>5954403
or maybe this one?

>>5955328

There are like 3 shitposters responsible for all the 'muh theology'

>>5955366
That's what you think :^)

>>5955378
So you're the only one then?

>tfw will never eat opium or visit an opium den
; ;

>>5955366
meh better than redditismos

Hey guys, Anglo-pleb here. I can't read French, should I just not bother or is it still worth reading in translation?

The toilet.

>>5954125
start with his poems. I think most of collections of his works have a summed up biography of him.

>>5954403

>>5954403

>>5955416
get some oxycontin, close enough, even codeine

>>5955416
You can smoke heroin but you're probably better off snorting it or shooting it up.

>>5955984
Fucking beautiful

>>5955416
I tried setting up a nice Opium den in my town, but I could never get the atmosphere just right, so the old Chinaman never came to sit mysteriously in the corner.

>>5956012
is that supposed to be plato going hard on that pipe?

>>5956192
They are all philosophers


Confucius is the one standing up, the chick is probably beauvoir, Freud is just kicking it trippin balls sitting up against the wall, Nietzsche had too much and passed the fuck out behind confucius

>>5954125
Anyone else think that movie with DiCaprio as Rimbaud was shit? From reading about him, and reading his works, I never imagined Rimbaud to be like that.

>>5956595
yes, it was awful and garish

>>5955355
>>5955363
thanks bois