/lit/ - Literature

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>That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
>He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGoNCvoZuYA

The last two verses are probably the moment folk music peaked.

>Sacramento, CA
Beers is the most iconic to me, although the prices have gotten worse. Used to love getting a huge haul for like $3. Time Tested is also not bad, but again their prices have gotten much steeper lately.

Why are all the used bookstores becoming whores?

Give me your top three, /lit/. You see names thrown around like Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, and Toni Morrison but which ones are actually worth reading and which are just memes?

Is it important to read La Vita Nuova before starting the Divine Comedy? Is it good to read just on its own?