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What's the room of literature

>> No.12881042

>>12880889
Fanged Noumena

>> No.12881057

>>12880889
This board or any autofictional online novels

>> No.12881071

>>12880889
Hypersphere

>> No.12881112
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>>12880889
The poetry of William Topaz McGonagall.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall

>> No.12881118

my diary desu

>> No.12881120

>>12880889
it's called a library you stupid fuck

>> No.12881436

>>12881120
based

>> No.12881472

>>12881120
by fuck did i chortle though

>> No.12881483
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>>12881112
>.m.

>> No.12881505

>>12881042
This is the only legitimate answer

>> No.12881701

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster

>> No.12882492

>>12881701
>I must now conclude my lay
>By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
>That your central girders would not have given way,
>At least many sensible men do say,
>Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
>At least many sensible men confesses,
>For the stronger we our houses do build,
>The less chance we have of being killed..

>> No.12883617

>>12880889
The Foundation for Exploration

>> No.12883692

>>12880889
Clearly Sean Penn's Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (beginning with the retared ebonics tier title).

>> No.12883761

if you'll excuse YA, Hungry by H.A. Swain is the most bizarre book I've ever read. I mean, I get it, it's a post-Hunger Games dystopian cash grab, but at the same time the incompetency is so inconsistent and alien that it borders on self-parody. no sane author just decides "hmm today I will write a YA dystopia where there is no food, and the main characters will be named Apple and Basil, and then they'll join a cannibalistic sex cult with Adam and Eve allegory after the revolution fails" without at least a little bit of self-awareness
to this date, it's one of the only YA books still in my possession, and I'm not sure I'll ever get rid of it simply for the fact that it's so hilariously awful

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>>12883761
This shit looks based asf anon; I've never before seen such an ominous, malevolent-looking piece of silverware.

>> No.12883807

>>12883793
that was part of the reason I bought it in the first place. go ahead and grab it if you're curious, it's quite entertaining if you don't expect it to be good

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>>12881112
>He found lucrative work performing his poetry at a local circus. He read his poems while the crowd was permitted to pelt him with eggs, flour, herrings, potatoes and stale bread. For this, he received fifteen shillings a night. McGonagall seemed happy with this arrangement, but the events became so raucous that the city magistrates were forced to put a ban on them.[8]:vii-ix McGonagall was outraged and wrote a poem in response entitled "Lines in Protest to the Dundee Magistrates":

>Fellow citizens of Bonnie Dundee
>Are ye aware how the magistrates have treated me?
>Nay, do not stare or make a fuss
>When I tell ye they have boycotted me from appearing in Royal Circus,
>Which in my opinion is a great shame,
>And a dishonour to the city's name (...)

>Throughout his life McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables

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>> No.12884222

>>12884032
Isn’t this book the one where a character speaks “bustily”?

>> No.12884324

>>12883692
came to post this

>> No.12884347

>>12883826
based, a chad autist-poet

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>>12883826
>McGonagall realised if he were to succeed as a poet, he required a patron and wrote to Queen Victoria. He received a letter of rejection, written by a royal functionary, thanking him for his interest.[8]:vii McGonagall took this as praise for his work. During a trip to Dunfermline in 1879, he was mocked by the Chief Templar at the International Organisation of Good Templars, of which McGonagall was a member, who told him his poetry was very bad.[10] McGonagall told the man that "it was so very bad that Her Majesty had thanked McGonagall for what the Chief Templar had condemned."[8]:viii

The letter gave McGonagall confidence in his "poetic abilities", and he felt his reputation could be enhanced further if he were to give a live performance before the Queen. In July 1878, he walked from Dundee to Balmoral, a distance of about 60 miles (97 km) over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm to perform for Queen Victoria. When he arrived, he announced himself as "The Queen's Poet". The guards informed him "You're not the Queen's poet! Tennyson is the Queen's poet!" (Alfred Lord Tennyson was the poet laureate). McGonagall presented the letter but was refused entry and had to return home.[3]

>> No.12884366

>>12881042
yes.

>> No.12884614

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones