/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5132308]

>I guess I was The Great Gatsby after all

Really Fitzgerald?

[Anonymous No.5132317]

>>5132308
>"And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita."

Really, Nabokov?

[Anonymous No.5132328]

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible Catcher in the Rye.
-Albert Hemingway

[Anonymous No.5132329]

>>5132308
"Truly, we finally became an Infinite Jest"

[Anonymous No.5132334]

>*sigh* "And this is how Atlas Shrugged"
>John Galt right before he dies at the end of the book

Aw come on Rand, why?

[Anonymous No.5132345]

kek

[Anonymous No.5132348]

>>5132328
>The catcher was inside you the whole time, Holden!

[Anonymous No.5132352]

>>5132328
>Holden rapes his sister, Phoebe.

Really JD Salinger?

[Anonymous No.5132354]

>>5132334
>>John Galt right before he dies at the end of the book

[Anonymous No.5132357]

>Truly, the schwarzgaret had created gravity's rainbow

Oh jesus fucking christ

[Anonymous No.5132360]

>"Truly John did have himself a Complete Poems of John Keats indeed"

[Anonymous No.5132361]

>He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.

Really, Remarque?

[Anonymous No.5132365]

>Let's kill some mockingbirds.

Really Harper Lee?

[Anonymous No.5132366]

>We did it, Peter! We finally became The Death of Ivan Ilyich!

What a fucking hack.

[Anonymous No.5132370]

>>5132365
You're doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.5132391]

>In the end, I guess we really were just Waiting for Godot

Bravo, Hackett

[Anonymous No.5132399]

>>5132308
After the first, came the second. After the second, the third. Until, finally, the last one - Catch 22.
rly Heller

[Anonymous No.5132406]

Truly, I am an Idiot.
Really, Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.5132412]

>>5132370
>At the end of the day, I guess we all have to kill a mockingbird.

[Anonymous No.5132417]

>>5132412
"What did you learn in school today, Scout?"
"Well, first we learned that black people like raping, and the we learned how to kill a mockingbird."

[Anonymous No.5132422]

>In the end it seems that they all indeed were The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, annotated, with critical essays.

[Anonymous No.5132429]

Is /tv/ fucking leaking?

[Anonymous No.5132440]

"Oh, Molloy could stay, where he happened to be."
Dropped.

[Anonymous No.5132443]

We did it, we finally learned The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

[Anonymous No.5132444]

>>5132429
It seem this is no longer An Acceptable Time.

[Anonymous No.5132450]

>We must continue to work our salvation with Fear and Trembling

Really Kierkegaard?

[Anonymous No.5132455]

>This has been a tale of both War and Peace

[Anonymous No.5132459]

>That my dear Ernest is The Importance of Being Earnest.
Really?

[Anonymous No.5132471]

"Have you tried doing yoga?"

Thanks, but no thanks Krishna.

[Anonymous No.5132476]

>Truly he did become The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories.

[Anonymous No.5132532]

"I guess I was The Old Man & the Sea after all

[Anonymous No.5132605]

>At the end of the day this truly was My Struggle

Really Hitler?

[Anonymous No.5132672]

>"I apologize", said Socrates.

Really, Plato?

[Anonymous No.5132690]

>>5132334
The fact that you got that far was your first problem.

[Anonymous No.5132705]

>>5132690
>being mad at a great book with a great message
Why?

[Anonymous No.5132707]

>>5132308
She was no longer just a girl. She was a Girl with Curious Hair.

[Anonymous No.5132716]

>I truly always was... In Search of Lost Time. THE END

really, Proust?

[Anonymous No.5132729]

>And when we'd looked around, we'd grown up. Our childhoods had slipped away at some point that summer, our innocence captured one last time by that magical camera. When it comes down to it, I guess as some point we all have to Say Cheese and Die.

Really, R.L. Stein?

[Anonymous No.5132732]

>>5132707
That story couldn't be more tryhard nonsense if that line was literally just included as the last sentence with nothing else changed.

[Anonymous No.5132932]

>>5132471
>not chanting the names of the Lord, Sri Krishna
>not offering your humble obeisances to your spiritual master
>not tasting the rasa of bhakti-yoga

really anon?

[Anonymous No.5132957]

>>5132732
DFW is really repulsive. Everything about his art exudes artifice.

[Anonymous No.5132966]

>>5132957
but he's so new sincere!

[Anonymous No.5134953]

"I don't see why you'd want to bang an American. Gods be damned, I find it disgusting"
Really Gaiman?

[Anonymous No.5134961]

>>5132308
"In John Shade's Poem 'Pale Fire'.."
really

[Anonymous No.5134984]

>>5132429
Where have you been, nigger? /tv/ is SPILLING EVERYWHERE, it's /sp/ 2.0.

[Anonymous No.5134986]

"They were, after all, the Brothers Karamazov"
Really Dostoievski?

[Anonymous No.5135007]

>Oi what's yor name?
>Harry...Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

[Anonymous No.5135015]

"So... I guess The Castle was inside me all along..."

Really Kafka?

[Anonymous No.5135016]

>It truly seemed to be A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.5135018]

>>5134953
I find it funny that when I googled this quote to check whether it's actually true (I know Gaiman's writing and I know he would write something like that), the first result I get is "Beerfest (2006)"

[Anonymous No.5135105]

'I guess, in the end paradise WAS lost'
Really, Milton?

[Anonymous No.5135114]

>>5135105
>Thou art in Paradise,
Lost from Satan's snare.

[Anonymous No.5135120]

"I seem to have forgotten the year, old chap -- do you happen to have a calender on it?"

"Yes, the year is 1984, Winston"

Really Huxley?

[Anonymous No.5135162]

>I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.

Really, Graves?

[Anonymous No.5135188]

>The Great Khan puffs thoughtfully on his pipe.

>"So perhaps, these cities only exist in our minds," he ruminates. "Invisible cities, if you will"

great job calvino, would read again

[Anonymous No.5135226]

>So I guess 100 Years of Solitude isn't so bad after all...

Really, Gabriel?

[Anonymous No.5135236]

>And there was light

Really God?

[Anonymous No.5135254]

>I guess when you do criminal things you will get your punishment sooner or later

Really, Fyodor?

[Anonymous No.5135258]

>And thus concludes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.

Really, Defoe?

[Anonymous No.5135264]

>Don Quixoat

Are you fuciking kidding me Cervantes

[Anonymous No.5135267]

>Finn, again!

Relijoys?

[Anonymous No.5135286]

>The violent battle to push the bubbling dark mass of vegetable matter through my tightly clenched sphincter became known to me as my struggle.

Seriously, Hitler?

[Anonymous No.5135304]

>>5135286
And at last we headed back for the main camp. Fin