/lit/ - Literature

>>20606581
just relax and buckle up

>>20600669

>>20596816

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>>19604583
>the psychopathic hedonism of American universities
Yes. But I had to live through it between my first and subsequent readings of the book to understand it. Also, I went to a city uni and a lot of the book clicked for me after spending a weekend at a college similar to the one in the novel—you could literally drift from dorm house to dorm house to parties, trashed girls crawling around, red solo cups you could just toss on the lawns between houses—it was a mess.

>>18703773
you're really on top of this britainbro, huh?

face it, you have no evidence... only weirdly cringe replies

you get that you're being laughed at, nicht wahr?

>>15852358
maybe don't spoil the mystery

If they want it they can do the puzzle

Who are the best contemporary writers, word for word, in terms of prose?

>>11603186
>>11603194
Not quite!

#11

>>7103527
I guess you are right. But still, it is my foreplay before sinking in GR.

>>7102534
Also, any Argie here by any chance? Where I can get Modafinilo or anthing similar

>>6751022

> be freshman in senior professional writing class
> only me and this other girl can actually write (I got an A+ on my first paper, she got an A)
> very pretty though I feel the rat's feet over broken straw in my head faintly
> "what do you study"
> "oh I'm an honors student in english and french literature!"
> "nice!"
> talk about the professors, I'm about to take a class she took a while back, modern to early postmodern poetry
> "oh, you like poetry?" I ask
> "yeah, tons! especially elizabeth bishop!"
> start pointing my attention, since bishop was literally one of the three or four poets the class studies
> "nice, any others?"
> lists the other three poets the class teaches
> "any others?"
> "well I write poetry myself"
> interesting, let me probe further
> before I can probe she says "well you know more people would love poetry if teachers would print out rap or rock lyrics and had students analyze those as well!"
> one of the smartest english students at my extremely well-ranked english department just said that
> literature truly is dead

hi /lit/

>>6574657
>This is the only known photograph of Thomas Pynchon aside from his high school yearbook and his military photo.
u avin a giggle m8

>>6246859
Not bad.