/lit/ - Literature

>>12498077
>>12498100
ikr

>>12497973
>protip
You don't.
(Because i'm not ''from'' reddit)
but you can project all you want bro.

>>12497657
Racism is only ''allowed'' inside the /b/ board bro

>>12497494
Dude chill out. He said literally 2 short sentences.
You're literally whining more than he is.

>>12496258
Everything else is mundane

>>11438455
ho hum! hello father john misty; i should say farmer! how are those beansprouts cooking today! ho hum; how's the scorching fire doing today? i hope the chickens are fine; i hope they're coming home to roost any time now; any who, and with a bungalowshaped house; anywho, i know it's been tough now on account of the great depression; i know the okies are trying to move you out west to california and oregon to pick out grapes and fruits and oranges and another assorted medleys of fruits; i hope grandma's okay; i hope death isn't here for you

i hope death isn't here for you

(he sulks away, a shadow of a ghost leaping behind him and spritz away with him)

>>11438425
i'll never join ye; not so long as these lungs give breath to my toiling, tiresome brain; not so long as my heart beats relentlessly the passion of my fervor; not until the sun of my brain begins to lose its all-encompassing wondrous blaze; not until all the gas and light and beams dissipate from this wondrous shell of a paragon of man; until then, thou hast me not; thou hast me little, robot thing; thou would'st seek to convert me into something inhuman, robotic, synthesized; i am of the land, the rivers, the dells, the hills; i am of the sky, the birds, the trees, and the sun; thou may'st not

>>11438429
ho hum; i hail from dublin; i am a seasoned traveler from dublin; i have an insurance bond that allows me to move and migrate every which way; my father gave me a million dollar loan to see the world and its ways; so i migrated to hungary and met some people there; moved to romania and met some there; to italy, and fondled some little balls there; it was glorious and wondrous; it was a hair-splitting and a spitting time; i saw the hills and the dales; i saw the larks singing in the morning; i saw the ravens all black flying in the sky; i saw the trees; i saw the sunsets in their glory; i saw the rills, the thrills, all laced in hills; i saw the hills lace out and about in their frills; it was a thrill, my pickle pill

>>11438384
PROMETHEUS DEDALUS: (lets him sip at the glass); weary traveler, rest your head upon my lap of repose; let it gently rest there until the morning; i will divest in you most wondrous tales of my upbringing; of my jejune youth; of the sprawling ladies that didst unfold their wares before mine eyne; of the sprinkling sparkling little women-snakes i found in these parts that i took out and did do; of the myriad-minded ways in which i found myself treading these lands and parts; i could a tale unfold to you which would split your ears and shake you to the very brazen foundation of thy soul; prithee, sip at that liqueur; o, and i've got biscuits baking up in the pot; it'll be a half-day for 'em; o, and do you like dr. pepper? i have some cans in the fridge; o, and you must meet molly, my lovely wife; she cuckolds me night and day

>>11438394
PROMETHEUS DEDALUS: (with weary resignation, with voluntary admittance of defeat): you're right, my companion; absolutely; a sestina is a formidable foe of a poetry form; i heard it cackle at me as i tried its pace; it was a castanet and a minaret of a mosque; it was ho-hum;

>>11438376
A CARAVAN OF TRAVELERS: ho hum, what's that there singing there in the shade?
what does he do, what does he mean?
why doth he sing in shade of kind like that?
what is his goal; his message; his messuage?
ho, traveller! prithee, where's the next dell to glade?
where's the glade to the dell, the dell to the dale?
we're trying to mend our way home to
mountain sides and ever-living rills
where the sun doth always shine in the
spotless heavens; and angels do sing their
hymns in the matutinal hours
o, and with a bungalowshaped house
anywho; we're looking for the star-shaped
trees and the lands where the light
is always bright, is always peeping and peering
o'er yonder hills and valleys; where the
tree larks doth sing all day and every day;
and the mountain goats do have udders
to succsuccsucc

>>11438363
(in a kind of jolted surprise)
PROMETHEUS (donned in the armorial bearings of a god, with little wings and draped in a shawl of printed gold cloth and cope; in a gabardine of monumental vessel and sustenance; and kind of clothed in an elemental cloak of horror and fire): ho hum, hello! i see we have some shelley advocate around these parts; yes, yes; the light doth peep o'er those mountains in a reverberating light of scintillating glory and sunshine; it makes the dewdrops on the plants shiver and gloat with envy at that sheen; the river does doth move about in elemental frenzy and friction; the tides doth swarm with fishes and fens and opulent glens; the glens doth ravish the brides with celestial glory in their habitats; and that wind, so sensual, so lovely; hark traveller, how do you do? woo't thou like a frosted beverage from my umbrella? let's have a little drink

>>5382718
>Implying your shitposting isn't a literary masterpiece.
>Implying you aren't Australian and just 'funposting'.

>Tfw I will never be capable of time travel.
>Tfw I will never be capable of traveling back in time and witnessing the rise of the Roman Republic.
>Tfw I will never witness the rise of the Roman Empire, its expansion, and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire all in first person.
>Tfw I will never travel to the present and construct the most accurate portrayal of ancient Roman lifestyle/history.

Just die in my fucking sleep already.
;__;

The most obvious one.

>>5338960
I'm with you on everything, m8. I plan on traveling across the States soon, backpacking and either couchsurfing or camping out myself. Only difference is that I'll also be residing in a series of studio apartments from time-to-time. I'll be living a very minimalist lifestyle.

Folks always tend to overlook this one. And if you haven't played the games based on 'em, you should. Pretty fucking good.

Philip K. Dick

Although, it all depends what kind of drugs we're going on about here.

I apparently own a specific sci-fi book that has been out of print for years.

>>5241947
>Wanting to roam about in nothingness.

Anon, I would much rather burn in eternity for my degeneracy.

>>5241918
My biggest fear, in all of life, is the fear of waking up one day merely to realize that I'm the last man on Earth. Now, let us assume that after death, my 'existence' becomes just that...a void.

Jesus-fucking-Christ.

>>5241879
I ain't afraid of death itself...merely what occurs afterwards.

>>5241690
Would you have it any other way, m8? If you could go back in time...

If. You. Could...

Have you read the recent sticky, OP?
/r9k/ is pretty much a board for...anything now, I guess...

>>5206039
>Work in progress.

Ultimately, a bond is constructed between both protagonist, and the young lad (in his late-20s by the time it all comes full circle), is then forced to murder his mentor and surrogate father-figure in a one-on-one dual, whilst he utilizes all of his teachings.

>Coming-of-age tale.
>Young lad is 'drafted' off with his compatriots.
>His compatriots are slaughtered.
>Said lad and a handful of others are taken captive by the infamous [secondary protagonist].
>Said captive is forced to travel about with the 'infamous'.
>Said captive undergoes both physical and psychological torture.
>Said captive is forced into one-on-one combat with his remaining compatriots.
>Said captive is forced to witness rape, 'un-willful murder', and a series of events which lead to cannibalism.

Work in progress.