/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ thing of the poem I wrote when I was 11?

Post your childhood poems/stories.

The Power of Stoicism

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

>7306617
Underrated post

forgot trip

>>7282568

>Yale
>Oxford

tattoos are the ultimate form of cultural degeneracy

I think capitalism has been slowly different forms of cultural virtues for a long time. Now most kids movies/blockbusters/chain restaurants have postmodern self-aware ironic twists and you can't buy your large mocha latte without buying a pair of shoes for some starving child in the third world.

>7102368
>announcing reports
reported.

>>7102337

Wanna fuck anyway?

Sometimes i look at the title of a book/cover of a book and try to guess if if was written by a man or a woman.

I have never been wrong.

>>7102174
Are you a woman?

>>7100604

It's worth it

>>7102175

I think Wallace's normality fluctuated a lot with the severity and treatment of his illness, based on what Franzen said if the interview was conducted closer to his death it definitely would've been different.

But, in a way, I'm glad they didn't. Instead they showed him in a relatively happier time of his life, after the publication of Infinite Jest, when his yearning innocence to keep trying still had the upperhand. That aspect of his personality is what made his books interesting to me.

>>7099844
Not at all.
The ending is way more ambiguous and devastating.

>>7099747
Theatres are mostly empty, the few people who care enough to go see it are probably way into supporting the arts and shit.

>>7099646
JH, you?

>>7099652
Half Japanese, half white.
Short, black hair, sub.

>>7099235
Caught the last viewing in Baltimore last night. The theatre was empty aside from a girl who showed up 20mins in and used her phone in the back the whole time, and my gf who I dragged to go with me under the pretence of it being a cheesy sentimental movie about a goofy intellectual.

In all honesty I wasn't sure what to expect. I have read infinite jest and brief interviews with hideous men which I enjoyed, but I always sneered a little at my uni's David Foster Wallace Reading Society and the reverence he gets in literary circles in general, but Segel's sensitive, rambling, apologetic portrayal of DFW made the movie incredibly enjoyable. All the complaints I had about his style and language mannerisms were represented in a really earnest way, that he probably wouldn't have approved of but still seemed based on his own philosophy of controlling your awareness and thinking carefully of others.

When I was a kid I used to scare myself with mental images of a person's face in the worst state of distress you can imagine. That image of David dancing at the end of the movie, a wide earnest smile on his face as he twists and blissfully moves his oversized limbs in the paths of others, you can see how much earnest happiness he derived from the freedom that comes from not feeling alone. It made me think of how sad he must've been at the end of his life, like the suicide of a young child.

Who else has seen it already?

Who else cried at the end?

Albert Camus was not existentialist

What if there was a way to kill yourself without adding to the absurdity of the universe?

What if there was a fire which would not only obliterate a physical body, but retroactively remove every trace of its existence from history, creating a world as it would have been had it never been created? Would it not only be right to throw yourself in?

How much blind arrogance does it take to be glad of your own birth?

delete this thread and kill yourself

>>6272582
god it's so true.

Race, like so much biological nomenclature, is difficult to define.

That doesn't mean it does not exist.

i have grown sick of the jokes 'intellectuals' tell each other, which almost entirely consist of esoteric confusion or rationalising the obscene.

see kimkierkegaardashian etc.

>>6207367
many great writers have done the same, you're in good company (minus the 4chan part)

>>6207280