/lit/ - Literature

>Again, it is not the Classical statue, but the Classical torso that we really love. It has had a destiny: something suggestive of the past as past envelops it, and our imagination delights to fill the empty space of missing limbs with the pulse and swing of invisible lines. A good restoration - and the secret charm of endless possibilities is all gone. I venture to maintain that it is only by way of this transposition into the musical that the remains of Classical sculpture can really reach us. The green bronze, the blackened marble, the fragments of a figure abolish for our inner eye the limitations of time and space.

>>16612553
Iktf. The worst thing is knowing that even I had a second shot, I'd just fuck my life up all over again.

Super normie question but what are the best sites for publishing own work?

>. . . One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees — he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

>His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

>Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something — an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

>>13657230
>Now when I go to a bookstore, I get recognised within 10 minutes and there’s a crowd around me.
sure there is buddy, sure there is.

better than crack cocaine isn't it?
It's just a BOOK, enjoy it, tell anons you hated it and that's why they should read it, use it as a doorstop. It doesn't matter!

>>12161587
Krasznahorkai - 'Hermann & The Last Wolf'

>>12161765
Fukuyama - 'The End of History and the Last Man'

>>12161836
Virilio - 'Speed and Politics'

>>12161999
Bolano - 'Last Evenings on Earth'

>>12162102
Schnitzler - 'Dream Story'

>>12162150
Pinter - 'The Birthday Party'

>>12163526
Evenson - 'The Wavering Knife'

>>12163728
Shelley - 'Adonais'

>>12164535
Rodger - 'My Twisted World'

>>12164548
Batailles - 'The Story of the Eye'

>>12165060
Sophocles - 'Ajax'

>>12165285
Bulgakov - 'The Master and Margarita'

>>12165354
McCarthy - 'Child of God'

>>12165647
Chekhov - 'The Seagull'

>>12165849
Calvino - 'Invisible Cities'

>>12166168
Ariosto - 'Orlando Furioso'

>>12168256
Baudrillard - 'The Spirit of Terrorism'

Is anyone else just sitting around and waiting for the next Shakespeare to come along and give meaning to this decadent, festering generation?

Why is Lord of the Rings so fucking boring? I’m currently reading the 2nd book and It feels like a chore reading them. The Hobbit is better even than this

Hey /lit/ is there something wrong with me? I’m getting bored of reading. I’m currently reading lord of the rings. I don’t know if I’m the problem or the book I’m reading

>>11903303
>24
>the good side of korea
>less than nothing

>>27029

>>8617219
>tfw the ol' Pynchmeister will die in your lifetime

No. Oblomov is a NEET because he's too pure and innocent to exist outside his manor's walls, whereas NEETs are secluded as a result of their hate and misanthropy.

>>7365394
lol! Christie was a hack, literally only writing to fund her husband. Formulaic genre trash is not a 'best book'.

The fuck has happened to you /lit/? you used to be e/lit/ist and now you accept shit like harry potter?

>shame shame shame

Pick a highbrow author, middlebrow author and lowbrow author

Do the same for a publication.

DFW
Malcolm Gladwell
GRRM

First things
New York Magazine
Salon

>>5819097
hold me, anon

>Tfw you write you create an alternative universe where what you write happens
>Tfw you will never write your waifu into reality

>>5362390
You can't have Pepe without Wojak

>>5313634

>Write a thought provoking narrative on the human condition
>Ignored
>Write about gay vampires and teenage girls with magic powers
>Make a million in a month

Publishing is dead

>>5244144
They're best friends

>>4845855

By definition that makes you an introvert. Embrace it anon, be one with the intros.

What is the point of literature? No matter your mastery over language, this tool will never be able to reach another. You are alone, and even that state is so unique that only you yourself can understand and know it.