/lit/ - Literature

wow, he's ugly

fucking epic thread

>>7135842
nothing ebin about it, bud. I'm honestly curious, because it makes no sense. I don't break down crying every time I see a pair of baby shoes in a clothing store.

>>7135838
I know.

I've found the comedic counterpoint to this little Hemingway story in a newspaper:

'Six remain dead after morgue fire'

I wonder if he would have found it as amusing as I did...

>>7135835
polish fag detected

>>7135858
My favorite 6 word short story:

>Sneed's Feed and Seed, formerly Chuck's.

gr8b8m8ir88over8

>>7135835
It's supposed to be a classified ad.

For sale, one durex condom, unopened.

;_;

>>7135878
Condoms expire.

>>7135871
epic post friend

No but seriously, can someone explain to me why it necessarily means that there's the death of a baby involved?

>>7135883
please, please, please kill yourself

For sale: my dignity, never used.

>>7135882
I jar mine

Hey, I am not Willie Nelson.

>>7135835
they got the gender wrong and got the wrong colour

>go to clothing store
>all those never before worn baby shoes

i cry everytiem ;_;

reminder that Hemingway didn't invent this story.

Wanted: experienced babysitter for footless baby

Did anyone say it was supposed to be tragic?

The point of it is that it presents you with a story that has depth, despite its brevity, because it leaves much for interpretation. Some will regard it as tragic, some will regard it as trite, some will regard it as intriguing. It is a litmus test of your insight and imagination, if you find little in the story then there is perhaps little in you.

They were really ugly shoes that no one wanted to buy.

For sale: helium tank, never used.

He could have made it more concise by removing the "for"

They ordered a few parts for their baby but one fell behind the piano and they didn't find it for another few years.

5 Sale: LE ebin lel 4 u xDDDD

>>7135924
>it's open to interpretation

a baby has died before being able to wear a pair shoes that the parents had gotten for him/her.

the point of the story is: a baby has died, and that is a fact the reader can infer from the six words. that's the emotionally powerful part. the artistically satisfying part is the presentation, the style.

>litmus test

die.

New document soon to be printed.

>>7135951
And there you go, the simplest narrow interpretation. Perhaps the seller of the shoes was the baby they were bought for all grown up. Maybe it was a healthy baby born without feet, maybe a serial hoarder who never had a baby bought them. Sorry to hear you are such a weak unimaginative acid, rather expected of a frog poster though.

>>7135926
>For sale: helium tank, never used
top kek
also underrated post

>>7135951
Not just the dead baby but the sale indicates the parents are trying to move on. The baby is in the process of being forgotten.

>>7135973
yes you can play those games but you know full well what Hemingway meant.

For sale: my virginity, am male.

>>7135973
Yes, let's take the incredibly profound and unambiguous meaning of the story and replace it with some idiotic interpretation about a serial hoarder.

>>7135934

underrated post

>there are still people who read for the language used rather than the specific happenings involved in the story

>>7135973
it must be awful to be around you

fuck that kid, this world is overpopulated

Shit son, this whole time my interpretation was that the seller was selling his own shoes that he never wore as a baby because he spent his childhood barefoot, thus implying a life of adventure and freedom, lived to the fullest.

But the dead baby thing makes more sense I guess

>>7136082
That's pretty retarded and imaginative, I'm not sure if I'm impressed or disappointed in you.

>>7136096
I now realize it's a stupid interpretation but on the other hand I never put that much thought into it.

>>7135858

For some bizarre reason, my first interpretation of this was that there were more than 6 bodies in the morgue, and that of those bodies only 6 were still dead after the fire.

>big guy(for you), remove mask, extremely painful

implication is that they paid for the shoes expecting a baby but it was stillborn so they were never worn.

>It was a dark and stormy night.

So it was raining after sundown? What's so foreboding about this?