/lit/ - Literature

>>21409767
I hate you Blowjack posters so much.

>>20280517
>Almost always gotten on impulse, tattoos are vividly, chillingly permanent. The shopworn 'Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure' would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos. For a while, the new resident Tiny Ewell got first keenly interested and then weirdly obsessed with people's tattoos, and he started going around to all the residents and outside people who hung around Ennet House to help keep straight, asking to check out their tattoos and wanting to hear about the circumstances surrounding each tattoo. These little spasms of obsession — like first with the exact definition of alcoholic, and then with Morris H.'s special tollhouse cookies until the pancreatitis-flare, then with the exact kinds of corners everybody made their bed up with — these were part of the way Tiny E. temporarily lost his mind when his enslaving Substance was taken away. The tattoo thing started out with Tiny's white-collar amazement at just how many of the folks around Ennet House seemed to have tattoos. And the tattoos seemed like potent symbols of not only whatever they were pictures of but also of the chilling irrevocability of intoxicated impulses.
>Because the whole thing about tattoos is that they're permanent, of course, irrevocable once gotten — which of course the irrevocability of a tattoo is what jacks up the adrenaline of the intoxicated decision to sit down in the chair and actually get it (the tattoo) — but the chilling thing about the intoxication is that it seems to make you consider only the adrenaline of the moment itself, not (in any depth) the irrevocability that produces the adrenaline. It's like the intoxication keeps your tattoo-type-class person from being able to project his imagination past the adrenaline of the impulse and even consider the permanent consequences that are producing the buzz of excitement.
Tattoos are disgusting

>mfw color instead of colour

>mfw Odysseus instead of Ulysses

>19606468
Can we not have these threads anymore?

>>19144332
>This post

>>18340404
I don’t have one

>You mean you take your book with you into the bathroom?
>And you hold it inches away from your poop?

>>17770957
Threads have been displaced for this?

>>17596821
If this was a court case, your argument would fall flat and everyone would be looking at you like this

>>17581210
> la-muerte-en-venecia-thomas-mann.jpg

>>17257796

Is everyone here a faggot that likes to project their homosexuality onto women to cope with the fact that they are gay? This is very clearly a girl.

>>17231564
>The word for ninety in French is "eighty plus ten"

>>17205822
ew get away from me incel

>>12888261

>The bloody light of Reddawn spilled across the morning landscape. Lurid shadows, black against red, stretched away from gaunt trees limned against the sky, and incicles flamed crimson as they caught the dim light. Overhead, aurorae pulsated, dim with the coming dawn but still visible.

>>11611017
>go round a collegues house and he literally has a picture of Obama on the dresser next to pictures of his own family

>>9497182
>le silmarils > farmer giles
>>9497332
>merry kills the witch-king