PSEUD POLICE, PLEASE PRESENT IDENTIFICATION

[Anonymous No.11209743]

You have been stopped by Lit's Pseud Police.

Please provide one obscure detail from a lit classic that you would only know from reading it to prove you belong on this board.

[saucy No.11209745]

>>11209743
Why would I do that? Do I look like a pseud?

[Anonymous No.11209750]

>>11209745
Sorry buddy, we're taking you in

[saucy No.11209758]

>>11209750
You'll rue this day.

So go on! Start ruing!

[Anonymous No.11209768]

>>11209758
STOP RESISTING

[Anonymous No.11209771]

The average 80-year old has farted half a million times in their life and has burnt about 4 kilos of fat just through farting.

[Anonymous No.11209775]

Wie ein hund

[Anonymous No.11209780]

>>11209775
I'll let you go this time but you might want to get some better identificaton.
Move along.

[Anonymous No.11209806]

>>11209743
You make me look to be as the laughing Philosopher once was when in horror he was seen bloodied by the lifeless dissected animals piled up at his feet by some inward push to better understand the living. Is my laugh so insane to you?

[Anonymous No.11209808]

Snape kills Dumbledore

[Anonymous No.11209813]

L-Leopold Bloom is subtly made out to be or to once have been a Freemason in Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.11209816]

Eggs, eyes, urine, blood

[Anonymous No.11209829]

>>11209743

One of Faulkner's best metaphors comes in The Sound And The Fury when Caddy is described as standing with her eyes "like cornered rats".

Most people miss this because it's near the end of Quentin's chapter when he's breaking down and becoming almost unintelligible and they just skim-read it.

[Anonymous No.11209831]

>>11209743
>>11209750
hot

Lady Macbeth uses the word milk 3 or 4 times in the first act of Macbeth.

[Anonymous No.11209837]

>>11209829

I guess it's a simile rather than a metaphor. I trust the officers of the law to eschew pedantry, though.

[Anonymous No.11209838]

Sure thing officer, here is my pseudo-license
Now be careful officer, I want you got grasp it FIRMLY.

[Anonymous No.11209843]

>>11209743
I think, therefore I am... r-right officer?

[Anonymous No.11209844]

>>11209831

Yeah there have been several learned papers on Lady Macbeth's children or lack of them. Either she never had any or she had one and it died or something. Anyway that's one of the reasons she's a loony. The milk thing is part of it.

[Anonymous No.11209850]

>>11209843
WE GOT A FAKE ID. GET ON THE FUCKING GROUND, KID.

[Anonymous No.11209877]

In the book No Country For Old Men, when Chigurh finally visits Carla Jean and offers her the coin toss, she actually guesses but gets it wrong, rather than refusing as in the film.

[Anonymous No.11209893]

Spanish writer García Lorca was murdered 5 years after publishing When Five Years Pass

[Anonymous No.11209900]

Everyone says “start with the Greeks.” This is wrong. You should really start with the Chauvet Cave paintings.

[Anonymous No.11209901]

In the encantadas by Melville he describes a woman as such: I wish I could but draw in crayons, for this woman was a most touching sight, and crayons, tracing softly melancholy lines, would best depict the mournful image.
I think that is a beautiful description.

[Anonymous No.11209924]

I think the discussion between the fascist and the communist in the fascist's library is not actually a political satire, but rather a satire of action itself, which seems to me to be the single main theme in Cyro dos Anjos's O Amanuense Belmiro. Action is hard and leads to laughable catastrophe and repentance, while the lack of it can at least lead one to look for consolation in memories and in beauty.

This makes for a very curious similarity between that book and Pessoa's Book of Disquiet. The only real difference between the two is that Cyro's mind was bound to the earth, and therefore organized and local; while Pessoa's was is constant travel inside a labyrinth of intellectual references which is what ultimately makes him a universal author, while Cyro dos Anjo is merely a Brazilian one.

[Anonymous No.11209929]

Please man, don't do this to me. I have a wife and children.

[Anonymous No.11209930]

>>11209743
Patrick Bateman reads news stories that seem to indicate that at least some of the murders really did occur

[Anonymous No.11209933]

Achilles was homosex for Patrocles

[Anonymous No.11209956]

>>11209743
It is REALLY fuckin' hot in blood meridian. And there's lots of injuns. And blood and scalps and rape and murder.

What a shit novel. It feels like a dream, now, months later. And it pushed the boundaries of what I thought a novel could be. But the story itself was a big nothing. Wow, bad things happen. No shit dummy.

[Anonymous No.11209962]

>>11209930
That garbage is inadequate to prove your belonging to this board

[Anonymous No.11209963]

In Villette, when Lucy Snowe is pushed into the toughest classroom as a teacher, she establishes order by walking past the most unruly girl and then suddenly GRABBING HER AND LOCKING HER IN A NEARBY CUPBOARD

Well played Lucy

[Anonymous No.11209970]

Daybreak, gentlemen.

[Anonymous No.11209976]

>>11209956

This is too vague. Anyone could say this from just skimming the book or hearing it talked about. Not satisfactory proof you read the work in question, sir.

[Anonymous No.11209989]

>>11209743
The leper proclaims Jesus' miracle, forcing Jesus to not be allowed into towns. This is a foreshadowing of how Jesus dies on the cross and bears our sin for us, as we know from Deuteronomy that lepers were not allowed in town

[Anonymous No.11209990]

>>11209970

This rings the vaguest of vague bells. Joyce? Details please.

[Anonymous No.11210000]

>>11209990

Joyce is correct. At the end of After the Race, in Dubliners.

[Anonymous No.11210002]

In Huckleberry Finn, when the woman is telling Huck how to pretend to be a girl, one of the things she says is, when you try to throw something, twist your arm back awkwardly and then throw as hard as you can and miss by six or seven feet.

HAHAHAHA WELL PLAYED MARK TWAIN HAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.11210003]

the only thing anyone turns down in in fear and loathing in las vegas is a chili cheeseburger, which the main character's friend claims sounds "too heavy for me"

[Anonymous No.11210005]

Before Bolkosnky died he had a dream where he was trying to prevent death from coming through the door, but he was unable to and right when he died in his dream he woke up. After it he thought something like ‘Death is an awakening’ and he contemplated that idea and it felt as a revelation finally causing him to accept death and act detached of the material world, waiting for his death with indifference to those surrounding him.

[Anonymous No.11210009]

>>11210003

naa, the main character turns down the traffic cop's kind and sensible suggestion of driving to the nearest motel and having a little sleep

[Anonymous No.11210010]

>>11209771
Which Pynchon book is that from?

[Anonymous No.11210012]

moby dick is the name of the ship, not the whale. the ship's full name is mobile richard

[Anonymous No.11210017]

>>11209743
That part in great expectations where he walks into his shitty flat but can't call it shitty because of patriotism.

[Anonymous No.11210018]

>>11209976
Judge Holden had a retard as a pet

[Anonymous No.11210022]

>>11209771
stupid buzzfeed statistical retardation

[Anonymous No.11210036]

Infinite jest is literally so complex that there a footnotes for the footnotes.

[Anonymous No.11210037]

>>11210018

Fair enough. You have a good day sir (despite grossly undervaluing the finest post-war American novel).

[Anonymous No.11210040]

>>11210017
I loved that little servant boy Pip had. It was great seeing Pip send him around doing bullshit because he couldn’t find anything else for him to do.

[saucy No.11210043]

>>11210036
Yeah I... forgot there are indexes for the indexes.

[Anonymous No.11210071]

Archer Sloane was dead for ~3 days before he was found

[Anonymous No.11210076]

Saure is able to read slothrops future escapades of love by the way he rolls the joint of the finest hash

[Anonymous No.11210079]

>>11210071
Also, John Williams actually went to war in the same wave as Dave Masters, although he obviously didnt die

[Anonymous No.11210080]

In Something Happened, the main character remembers reading his daughter bed-time stories. Her favourite was Cinderella, and whenever he reached the part where the Prince asked Cinderella to marry him, his daughter always interrupted and said: "Sure, Prince!"

[Anonymous No.11210089]

Homer was a woman

[Anonymous No.11210094]

In Moby Dick, Ishmael says he tattoos the dimensions of a whale on his arm, although he does not have much room for it; so we can assume that he tattoos much of his body, possibly like Queequeg.

Also, can anyone rec books that capture the bromance of Ishmael and Queequeg? Unironically my favorite part of the whole book

[Anonymous No.11210312]

Molloy carries sixteen sucking-stones in his pocket

[Anonymous No.11210319]

>>11210312

Is he the one who ties himself to his rocking-chair and sits there rocking back and forth in the darkness?

Well done Beckett you really captured the spirit of Modern Man.

[Anonymous No.11210413]

yass queen is going to conquer westeros

[Anonymous No.11210456]

mentally slow man saves female-dutch-spy-dominatrix-scat-fetishist from pavlovian trained giant nazi octopus during beach blanket picnic.

[Anonymous No.11210460]

>>11209743
when slothrop fucks a child he experiences the hallucination of being inside his own penis

[Anonymous No.11210487]

Darl apparently is clairvoyant in As I Lay Dying

[Anonymous No.11210490]

>>11209743
Leopold Bloom is not Jewish. Nowhere in Ulysses is it clearly stated and proven that Leopold Bloom is actually Jewish. Other characters refer to him as a Jew but they are mistaken, they refer to him as such because they view him as an outsider. It is even stated that Bloom was baptized by the Catholic church on three separate occasions. This myth of Bloom being Jewish is seen at the highest rungs of academia with self-proclaimed "world renowned" professors perpetuating this myth.

[Anonymous No.11210635]

>>11210319
That's Murphy

[Anonymous No.11210665]

>>11209743
Reading this book gets me hard as fuck

[Anonymous No.11210677]

>>11209743
In To the Lighthouse, there is a vivid Arthurian image of Excalibur.

[Anonymous No.11210851]

>>11209743
In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov bops the old woman with the handle of the axe and chops the younger woman with the blade.

[Anonymous No.11210861]

George Eliot is black

[Anonymous No.11210901]

Sebastian Flyte is not actually gay

[Anonymous No.11210914]

>>11210665
>ruining your mind with so much masturbation and sexual thought that you get aroused at a shoemaking book from the middle ages.
The sexual revolution was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.11211344]

>>11210043
What’s up with the clover by your name you faggot

[Anonymous No.11211360]

The influence of Kierkegaard on Camus really is understated

[Anonymous No.11211390]

In The Idiot the Prince's one notable skill is his mastery of calligraphy, he is able to reproduce multiple scripts and comment intelligently on their different aspects.