/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18636083]

>I tried to drown my sorrows in bourbon, but the bastards learned how to swim

[Anonymous No.18636633]

>>18636083
Can anyone recommend me good Noir Detective novels or anything noir in general?

[Anonymous No.18636649]

>>18636083
kek
>>18636633
try some Chandler

[Anonymous No.18636726]

>>18636083

[Anonymous No.18637311]

>>18636083
vgh

[Anonymous No.18637342]

>>18636083
comfy

[Anonymous No.18637350]

>I tried to smoke away my stress but the suckers got gas masks

[Anonymous No.18637389]

>>18636633
100% try Red Harvest

[Anonymous No.18637487]

>i tried to snort away my problems but now im just really high

[Anonymous No.18637557]

>>18636083
meanwhile tards on /lit
>I tried to cure my depression through philosophy, now I'm intelligent and depressed

[Anonymous No.18637614]

>This dame had a spark in her eye. I called her firesome.

[Anonymous No.18637620]

>>18636083
>the way she walked, like a metronome, hypnotizing...

[Anonymous No.18637621]

>>18636083
>I knew from the moment she came in she was going to make a hell-of-a-lot more work for me
>You can always tell the broads that bring trouble by the way they talk
>They talk

[Anonymous No.18637646]

>>18637620
>The way she walked, like a metronome
>A perfect rhythm meant to capture a man's attention, no doubt mastered through years of experience, that's when I knew she's nothing but trouble...

[Anonymous No.18637667]

>>18637621
Kek
>>18637389 will do, I’m tired of trying to pretend to be smart reading all this classics, I just want to feel like the main character in LA noire

[Anonymous No.18637672]

>>18636083
kek
cringe too,
but kek as well

i wonder what kind of mind comes up with lines like that and does this kind of "epiphany" happen on the toilet seat

[Anonymous No.18637681]

>Moving from one state of being to the next - past states remain, future states already set in stone - a black dot moving along a black line - each moment an open grave - words cannot express the dread of timelessness.

[Anonymous No.18637693]

>he said "hand over the dame buster!". what he didn't know was that I had my hand over the Colt in my jacket

[Anonymous No.18637705]

>>18637667
>reading only so one can LARP as cool main characters in your favourite fiction
Fucking based anon; if I ever grow a pair of testicles I shall totally one day drop everything and adopt the guise of a literary archetype.

For me, it's a 18th century English gentleman of slightly upper-middle-class background with a pronounced sense of Franco-phobia. I shall go about drawing a foil from my ivory carved, eagle-headed cane, challenging others to duels about honour.

[Anonymous No.18637773]

>>18636083
OP posted a Dorothy Parker quote

[Anonymous No.18637921]

what is this kind of writing idiom called? is there a technical term for it? It's fucking hilarious

[Anonymous No.18637970]

>>18636083
me trinki trinki forko burbun batta naow me finki havbe storke?

[Anonymous No.18637989]

>I tried to blow up my sorrows by shoving fire crackers up my ass, but the scoundrels are blast proof

[Anonymous No.18638462]

>>18637921
A metaphor?

[Anonymous No.18638483]

>>18636083
Just in case you guys don't know, there's a fuckton of these old radio dramas available online as podcasts, with great voice acting and music. Things like "Johnny Dollar" it's a huge rabbit hole.

[Anonymous No.18638949]

>>18637681
I hate and love this. What book is this from?

[Anonymous No.18639166]

>>18637557
literally me albert camus

[Anonymous No.18639180]

i wrote camus's name so I could goodle it and forgot to erase it

[Anonymous No.18639510]

>>18639166
rate my author 3x3

[Anonymous No.18639566]

>>18639510
>ywn be as cool as camus
why live

[Anonymous No.18639615]

>>18639566
>get woke on philosophy and thus become depressed and nihilistic due to your awareness
>stay awkward
>don't even radiate an aura of mystique
THIS ISN'T THE FUTURE I WANTED