/lit/ - Literature

>>914023
No, I could see where one could derive that meaning I just didn't think that that was what the author was trying to convey. I could have been wrong but I thought my teacher was looking too deeply into things.

>>914020
Yeah I understand what you're trying to say, but if the author hadn't intended it can it be a legitimate sub-text? Personally, I think it isn't. I feel as if when something like that happens it is simply misinterpretation. Perhaps its pretentious of me to believe everyone should see a book as the author intended but that's just how I feel.

I remember in highschool when we read The Lord of the Flies my teacher constantly was trying to make the book into something no one saw it to be. Everyone realized it's themes were human nature and how primal we can be when there are no rules, but she was saying things like simon's death was reminiscent of, or an allegory to, jesus, and that the breaking of piggy's glasses was a symbol of the loss of intelligence. I was like "what? No, those were just things that happened, it's nothing deeper than that"

>>913970
I think you're missing the point of all that. The three lined poem meant absolutely nothing and the pretentious readers made it out to be something it wasn't, as did the readers of scrotie mcboogerballs. The boys literally wrote it to simply make it a banned book.

What did my fellow e/lit/ists think of this particular episode of South Park?

Personally, I found it to be painfully true. People trying to find some kind of underlying meaning in books that have none, or finding cultural messages that weren't intended

Someone screencap this for /lit/ history. It is pure gold

Yeah I am positive no one else here does that. To buy books and not read them is probably THE MOST hipster thing one could do, apart from owning an Indian headdress.

I write like Dan Brown.....god damnit. DX

To be honest I like reading other peoples lame ass stories......Deal with it I guess?

VOL-DE-MORT

not voldermont.....how can you read that giant ass book and not know the antagonists name?

God damnit. I had a huge respect for him after he did the hellboy films and pans labyrinth. Damnit.

someone out there might like it.

>>908319
I think the word may have been "endeavor

>>908314
I remember there was some other word she used fucking constantly and it pissed me off to no end. I can't remember what it was though, I read it back in my senior year of highschool......trying to recollect.....

This is true. And yet I will continue my wasting of time because I feel like it.

>>908282
you know what I remember?
determined determined determined.
Shelley liked to use the same words OVER AND OVER AGAIN

The ending is definitely my favorite portion of the novel, when the monster is making victor chase him and leaving dead rabbits and notes and such. So cocky/evil/badass.

>>906971
Do it.

>>906813
>>906813
>>906813
>>906813
You sir have put down in words the way I feel deep down in the core of my being about amateur writers on the internet, the way I only wish I could have.

Jesus christ this guy is right,

>>906795
Care to take me through the steps of submitting a short story? Also how short do lit mags prefer their stories to be?

>>906779
What happens if I send one story ot several different mags and more than one puts it into print in an issue? Is that frowned upon?

hibbiduh jibbiduh wut? Son there are maybe 2 people that frequent lit that have been published. No one knows shit.

How long can the fiction be?

Your age: 18
Your Height/Weight: 6'1" 115 lb's (no it is not a typo)
Your Career/Major: physics/mechanical engineering
Favorite Book: Ender's Game
An Idea you have for a book: A single man has the choice to end the world but is conflicted on whether he should or shouldn't, or if he even has the right to.
Goal in life: Become a widely appreciated author.