/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.920883]

Have you ever read something, /lit/, that touched you in a profound or moving way, to the point where it actually hurt to think about it, but you just can't put your damn finger on the reason why? For me, it was Walt Whitman's poem To a Stranger, specifically these lines:

"I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you."

Maybe I'm just being a sentimental faggot, but has anyone ever felt this way about anything they've read?

[Anonymous No.920908]

...I need to think about this one.

[Anonymous No.920914]

i am that way with saul williams

i also was that way when percy jacksons cyclops half brother told him that he prayed to his dad posiedon every day for a friend and he was so happy the he gave him percy as a friend.

shit was touching

[Anonymous No.920924]

The Giver by Lois Lowry
I don't know why... I read it back when I was in like... grade 6. For some reason I just loved it and it holds sentimental value to this day.

[Anonymous No.920934]

Is that about some hot ass bitch he saw and was like damn..she's hot.
And then he sits alone and faps while he thinks about her and he writes poems about how he will see her again?

[Anonymous No.920948]

>>920934
amirite or what?

[Anonymous No.920954]

Who knows, but that on the lower frequencies I speak for you?

[Anonymous No.920960]

>>920954
lolwut

[Anonymous No.920971]

>>920934
i dont think walt whitman fapped over hot ass bitches

[Anonymous No.920974]

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden's beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

[Anonymous No.920987]

>>920934
lol like those letters?

[Anonymous No.920990]

The whole last chapter of A Farewell to Arms. Shit, it's painful to think about.

[Anonymous No.921011]

>>920971
How can you be so sure?
Also, If not that then what is it about really?

[Anonymous No.921020]

Lots of things in Everything Is Illuminated, there's so much about love and about life. Talks about how the main characters "reciprocated the great and saving lie-that our love for things greater than our love for our love for things."

Even his other book talks about feeling to much, like the kid main character, "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living" .

The way he writes about love and holocaust survivors and war and pain and life, it makes living sound like a beautiful and noble thing.

[Anonymous No.921053]

What if we've just never been "touched" by...anything? I feel so cold.

[Anonymous No.921105]

This is going to sound odd..

In Deception Point by Dan Brown one of the main characters (Michael Tolland) is describing his wife's death, and her final words to him. I couldn't tell you the exact words, but it was something to the effect of,

"Promise me to love again when I am gone"
"I cannot!"
"You must learn"

[Anonymous No.921111]

>>921105
http://books.google.com/books?id=1zC-xOnvBg4C&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=deception+point+toll
and+wife+death&source=bl&ots=cW2yu241eT&sig=-2YUXGGJefgrYUZzWEbhqy-E4fU&hl=en&ei
=nwBATKfeAYTQsAPx7fn8DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAg#v
=onepage&q&f=false

There it is!

[Anonymous No.921128]

>>921053
You'll find something some day. You just need to keep looking.

[Anonymous No.921138]

>>921128

i c wat u did there

[Anonymous No.922989]

>>921105
0/10.