/lit/ - Literature

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>>2065716
>>2065716

Veil

You'll never find a jellyfish to love - stop dreaming.

> mfw Otacon isn't on either the trolling or instant trouble side

What is wrong with you people? I only want a sidekick who will piss himself and like anime, thank you very much.

>>2063745
>>2063745

> Long Drinks and Sidecars in that Bar near Egodeth

Two German men visiting Ireland stumble on a bar in the countryside and, after many drinks, the bartender admits to having killed almost every patron to ever come there - the two men, frightened to the thought, decide that they won't take their chances with any lunatic and drive back to their hotel drunk.

On the way back to home, the driver falls asleep at the wheel with his friend unable to take control of the vehicle before they crash into a rivet near the road - the driver instantly dies on collision leaving his friend to be trapped, hemorrhaging blood for a few hours before he's able to free himself. Hardly able to walk himself, he cannot leave his friend behind and sees the only option would be to return to the bar for help.

With tremendous difficulty, he is able to drag the rugged corpse of his friend back to the bar along with himself, luckily finding the bartender still awake and without any customers. The living German pleads for any help or for the man to call authorities but he refuses, reminding them that in their haste they didn't pay their tab for drinks.

Angered at such petty thinking in the face of death, the German violently attacks the bartender with a bottle left from their previous drinking, stabbing him vitally in the stomach for him to bleed out. As they both lay dying, the German's has only the strength left to laugh with the bartender over the fact that "no patron ever thought they could kill the bartender."

Title: Of Violent Men, did Death Speak

The first thing I ever wrote about an alien visiting Earth with a machine that could make them live forever but they refused it.

I don't remember why though.

>>2062878
>>2062878
>>2062878

Oh yeah!

> dat ending
> dat philosophical meandering on cliffsides

And a quick read to boot.

Write a really intricate woman protagonist - don't make her badass at all though. GIVE HER HARDSHIP, ANON, AND LET HER FAIL.

Allow other characters to take her place.

Grendel?

He's an isolated monster; it works!

Misery, only because of the Queen Bee thing.

What the hell was going on?!

>>2062680
>>2062680

Our forte might be girly men.

Soon, I will be the fattest idiot of all time.

I've cried openly over two pieces of literature - Death of a Salesman and Flowers for Algernon.

I mean, holy shit, when I saw the Dustin Hoffman movie adaptation of DoaS, I couldn't help but just bawl.

>>2061816
>>2061816

Whoops, forgot my title.

Title: To Walk in Stars and Die in Black Holes

>>2061799
>>2061799

> Dogging in times of Starbucks

The story begins with a man who in search of his sister whom has eloped with a man he did not approve of - the man has significant financial control over the sister and feels that he knows she'll come back to him, but will only rely her help if she leaves the man. While on the look, the brother is lead deeper in a morbid world that his sister is being brought into by this man - the world of extreme fetish pornography.

Realizing a serious change in situation for the safety of his sister, the man begins a solo man hunt for her across multiple states between bars, strip clubs, and underground snuff film joints.

All through-out, the business practices of all the entrepreneurs takes him back to his time on Wall Street during the early 80's, drawing parallels to his money rise, citing themes such as the shift of consumerism, the degradation of humanity in the name of the customer, and the justification of it all amongst multiple perspectives.

If somebody stole my idea for a novel, I could only hope they'd do it justice.

Why get mad over it? They'll either deliver it good or bad. If they delivered better and faster than you, you may have just been fucking around with the idea too long. If they didn't, then they didn't.

>>2061594
>>2061594
>>2061594

It's so funny now looking over that again - of course I chose Joyce to talk about note-taking for books.

>>2061590
>>2061590

Read you loud and clear, Anon - I've been up for the past while scanning stuff about meter and rhythm online.

Have you considered taking notes, Sunhawk?

1. Like "coat."
2. USA
3. I can't answer that - it was just my immediate read on it.

"The Man Who Loved the Faioli"

Now, I won't go as far to say this story is directly what you're asking for, but it has a....similar-ish concept.

It's short as hell and a great read - I'd suggest it no matter what, OP.

Ignite

You don't see "ig" much.

Well, maybe you've just got this subconcious interest in the ins and outs of faith - I'd say, as some have said, just write it all out and eventually it may fade away in tedium.

But who knows? Your best work may be in the one you find the most initial attraction to.

>>2061299
>>2061299

Dang!

I've really got to work on my poetry - I think I'll be cracking up some of my favorites again.

Thanks for the list, buddy.

(Also, I loved The Son Also Dances, one of my favorites from TAR.)