/lit/ - Literature

>>9689913
How in absolute fucking world could you possibly believe these two ideas are mutually exclusive?

Pic is 100% related

>>9680802

>he thinks Delillo and Wallace are good writers

>>9661653

>"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping."
>"Compelling First Lines"

>>9646104

>wardine be cry revealing something about language and reality

Do DFW fanboys know how ridiculous they sound?

Try and redeem what you just said. I dare you.

>>9405048

>collage of sounds
>mental rolodex to see where it belongs
>morally implicated times

>>9251066

She's wearing black it's just a fucking silhouette you can't see fucking ANYTHING

>>9120104
>equally good to

>let me double down on useless filler words and say how this is "very much" a case of something

>>9071252
>intelligence and wealth are related
>DT is a billionaire
>"I know bc...wellll.....he says so!"

>>8990791
OOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH

>>8983620

>>8833267

>he even saved my numerical designation

>beauty of thought

>>8637063

>Karl Ove Knausgaard
>profound

You must have a very low profundity threshhold. Like, if I told you that life is sometimes bad and sometimes good... would that impress you?

>>8625201

>loose their livelihood

>>8551909

>our children
>our
>us
>children

>First-person narration

There's no way I'd read any more of this. The prose is bad, the characters are boring. He climbs the ladder and runs into a steaming hot info dump. This one needs a lot of work before it's readable.

>>8429061

>her

>>8420090

>That shirt

>>8385892
>>8385896

Infinite Jest #1 in two rounds of voting? What the fuck is this?

>>8369047

Were there actually multiple Wardine chapters??

>>8355932

>the Iliad is a book