/lit/ - Literature

>Faulkner
Her house is empty and her heart is old,
And filled with shades and echoes that deceive
No one save her, for still she tries to weave
With blind bent fingers, nets that cannot hold.
Once all men’s arms rose up to her, ‘tis told,
And hovered like white birds for her caress:
A crown she could have had to bind each tress
Of hair, and her sweet arms the Witches’ Gold.

Her mirrors know her witnesses, for there
She rose in dreams from other dreams that lent
Her softness as she stood, crowned with soft hair.
And with his bound heart and his young eyes bent
And blind, he feels her presence like shed scent,
Holding him body and life within its snare
>Joyce
Frail the white rose, and frail are
Her hands that gave,
Whose soul is sere, and paler
Than Time's wan wave.

Rose-frail and fair-- yet frailest,
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blue-veined child.
>Fitzgerald
The warm fire.
The comfortable chairs.
The merry companions.
The stroke of twelve.
The wild suggestion.
The good sports.
The man who hasn't slept for weeks.
The people who have done it before.
The long anecdotes.
The best looking girl yawns.
The forced raillery.
The stroke of one.
The best looking girl goes to bed.
The stroke of two.
The empty pantry.
The lack of firewood.
The second best looking girl goes to bed.
The weather-beaten ones who don't.
The stroke of four.
The dozing off.
The amateur "life of the party."
The burglar scare.
The scornful cat.
The trying to impress the milkman.
The scorn of the milkman.
The lunatic feeling.
The chilly sun.
The stroke of six.
The walk in the garden.
The sneezing.
The early risers.
The volley of wit at you.
The feeble come back.
The tasteless breakfast.
The miserable day.
8 P. M.—Between the sheets.
>Hemingway
Soldiers never do die well;
Crosses mark the places—
Wooden crosses where they fell,
Stuck above their faces.
Soldiers pitch and cough and twitch—
All the world roars red and black;
Soldiers smother in a ditch,
Choking through the whole attack.

>>16824904
>I'm saving myself for a virgin trad wife

>>16803770
Keep it up champ. We're all gonna make it.

Just had my last coom before NoNut November. I hope you had have prepared yourselves, it's going to be a tough one this year since we're all locked up home!

>>16388137
FUCKING RETARDS ITT RIGHT NOW, I AM DISAPPOINTED /LIT/, OBSERVE:

1/3=1*0.333....=0.333....
2/3=2*0.333....=0.666....
3/3=3*0.333....=1 !=0.999....
0.999....!=3(1/3)
therefore, 0.999....!=1

$0, as it should be. I pirate everything.
>>16357097
Information wants to be free.

>>15688058
There is nothing funny or "based" about the situation OP. This is a grievous instance of the police neglecting to do their jobs. Being edgy in 2020 doesn't make you cool anymore.

I agree. The idea of a "Western Canon" is ridiculous if one stops to think about it for more than 2 seconds. It implies there is such a thing as a unified Western culture. It makes much more sense to me to make canons for separate countries such as the French canon, the German canon, etc. You can also read the various European literary cycles as an alternative.

Call me Ishmael

Learn grammar and develop a proper writing style before you post on my board again dweeb.