/lit/ - Literature

>>1682935

It's 2 quid on Amazon. Seriously.

It's not mine, but reading The Raven as an elegaic paraclausithyron. It cannot be unseen.

Ever tried ctrl+f?

See my name.

Have you seen Misfits?

Watch Misfits.

As far as I can recall, this book got majorly edited at some point (either editor or a friend convinced him to cut a massive character + plot). That kind of comes across - it's an excellent premise, but you can't help but feel that he's faltering towards the end. Oh, and if your characters are prone to changing their last names, for the love of god don't call them all John...

Norwegian Wood
All The Pretty Whorses

Meh, it gets dull.

>>1674815

Somebody hasn't had a childhood...

>>1673797

Ok, so it's a film, but I think it fits the bill, and this is the first line of the wikipedia summary...

> The film is set in Swansea, Wales, and is a portrait of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), who believes he is a cool literary genius but is in fact socially inept and unpopular.

Thus, all of /lit/ must see.

>>1673421

A Kestrel for a Knave, mate.

The Wasp Factory

>>1673774

Just a poor word choice obscuring his intended point. I've no difficulty with it. But why is it a paradox? Looks more like an oxymoron to me...

A Pale View of Hills? Not too tomboy, though

>>1673721

Maybe not, but tackling his hair is a death-wish.

Oh, and I'm going to come out and suggest Submarine for OP - first thing to come to mind.

>>1673760

> inherent understanding

lolwut?

>>1672655

It doesn't feel finished, like there's a stanza and a half I haven't quite worked out yet. Oh, well. I think I'm off to bed. I'll check back in in the morning...

Hey, /lit/.

I never post any creative stuff, but I've hit a brick wall here. Any advice going? It's a very rough draft, so all comments welcome.

Door. And five
recent translucent years
harmonise
on the gravel drive.

Acoustics
twist in planted trees
and catapult
across the way
lay stricken on the roof.

The parents
caused a fire on the path
to keep him out.
The pen-artists
long stopped caring
for the prayer
and the prayer.

And the prayer
is to time compressed
time squeezed
until pellucid thoughts
need curtains.

foreveralone.jpg

>>1653896

You know what's really annoying? Just as you manage to get it down to two paragraphs, they'll say they want it exactly in three. The four, then five...

>>1651662

What does "it" mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8

Also, someone posted this here the other day, and now I can't stop listening...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoTbrZlRzYI

If this doesn't move you, there's no place for you in the creative world.

>>1646858

Son, in my neck of the woods we call that a predicate.

>>1644480

OP, the way in which memes exist is very distinct from the way God would exist. That memes arise from our consciousness is all very well, but they never gain any power outside of that - they're always in the hands of society, insomuch as they cannot influence or invent themselves.

God, on the otherhand, would have to pre-date the idea in the first place. Moreover, we might consider that "God is omnipotent" is an idea, but that thought alone is not enough to make it true, because that would involve influence beyond social construction. God is, here, what ever we think He is.

So your argument doesn't follow, because you're accounting for two different types of existence with a logic that only encapsulates one.

TTFN