/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6263896]

ITT Pleb stories:

>Writing essay on Macbeth
>Tell housemates I wanted to write about psychoanalysis
>One of the questions is on 'desire and duty'
>Explain how well 'desire' fits ID and 'duty' fits superego
>Housemate chimes in with Macbeth is about 'honour and valour'
>he thinks Shakespeare plays are about one thing
>Look at him confused and just say "What?"
>He goes on to say "Yeah it's about restoring the honour of having your father killed."
>mfw he confused Macbeth with Hamlet whilst trying to sound smart saying something irrelevant to my essay

[Anonymous No.6264092]

>always pick up university's free short fiction journal when I'm on campus
>mfw undergrad poetry
>mfw undergrad prose
>mfw undergrad narratives
>mfw i legitimately can't discern whether "I woke up and realised I'd forgot to close the gate" is ironic post-post-plus-ultra-modern awful grammar or just awful grammar
>mfw all the authors' names are Ndendu Nuthangu and Amal Abu-Israel Queen Latifa and an endless list of white basic bitch hipsters
>mfw all the stories are about alice munro so-banal-it-isn't horseshit like grandpa skating on ice in the 30s
>mfw all the poems are about shit like lovers meeting in a forest
>mfw i waited years to try to get anything published because i felt like i would be competing with junior DFWs
>mfw it's literally just retards and whiners and minority whiners as far as the eye can see

[Anonymous No.6264272]

>Undergrads can't write

No shit.

I'm taking a module in creative writing for my third year though.

[Anonymous No.6264405]

>be student teacher
>other girl student in the department
>"not a big fan of Shakespeare, I prefer Marlowe"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.6264424]

>>6264405

>Choosing between two things so vastly different
>"not a big fan of food, I prefer drinks"

[Anonymous No.6264641]

>>6263896
>senior year of highschool
>we are assigned to read a book for the final exams
>everyone, including the teacher that was supposed to do the book said that it wasn't very good
>it was probably the best book i've read all year
>look up more stuff by that same author and everything i find is just pure gold
>the teacher was a middle aged woman that read twilight knockoffs
>i know this because she would talk about them with some girls in the middle of class
>she sucked at teaching
i once saw a dude reading 50 shades on a bus. like what the fuck

[Anonymous No.6264658]

>>6264641
What book was it

[Anonymous No.6264668]

>>6264658

[Anonymous No.6264670]

>>6264668
That book is entry level philistine garbage. Even 50 shades is better

[Anonymous No.6264755]

>>6263896
>Wake up and have mom cook breakfast.
>Put on my best fedora
>Get on /lit/
>Notice someone who actually enjoys reading.
>Tell him intellectually that all fiction is shit and to stop enjoying what I hate.
>Tells me to fuck off.
What a pleb, this crossboard cancer is killing the last intellectual bastion on this Earth.

[Anonymous No.6264785]

>>6264755
Pratchett? Your still aliVE!?

[Anonymous No.6264829]

>>6264092
>>6264755

[Anonymous No.6264832]

>>6264785
I haven't really read him, but from what I've read about him, he'd hate /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6264867]

>>6264755
>implying fiction isn't pointless drivel

[Anonymous No.6264872]

>>6264668
ROFL if that's your idea of "pure gold" I don't know how you even managed to write a post. You're obviously illiterate.

[Anonymous No.6264944]

>>6264867
Works of imagination always get talked down by people without one.

[Anonymous No.6264953]

>>6264668
thats not even english! lmao

[Anonymous No.6264976]

>>6264641