/lit/ - Literature

>>16298981
>Since Quarantine started in March, I've continued working
>I am essential!
>Job still sucks all my creative energy and joy and the most I can get myself to do is to create greentext replies to threads on 4chan.

I am not going to make it, friends.

>>15378341
This was supposed to be the humor thread, not the feels thread.

>>14017136
>>Harold Bloom is dead
God it hurts.

>>13547351
>tfw this is not a Donna Tart David Lynch crossover.

>>13089672
>This book is dedicated to mankind

>>12563414
It's half comfy roadtrip book and half a defense of sophistry. I thought it was pretty enjoyable, and the stuff about his autistic son was touching.

>tfw he talks about his son being stabbed to death in the afterword

>>12564458
>—the author was a student at University of Chicago and you can find out who his nemesis prof was, he’s quite well-known
His nemesis was Richard McKeon, who was a great and respected professor and philosopher.

>>12512250
6 word short story due in the next two minutes. FML.

>>10306279
Nobody?

>>10259124

>>10110249

>Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

>>7947344

>mfw this is likely a common sentiment outside of /lit/

>>7473684

It pays so well that you can will be able to afford a blazer, but you won't be able to afford a shirt.

>>6141859

Hah. Cleopatra was a cunt.

That said, Octavian/Augustus was probably the best possible emperor Rome could ask for once it had done away with the Republic, so her running the fuck away might not have been the worst thing. I recognize that that is essentially trying to find the best in a bad situation, though.