/lit/ - Literature

I met a traveller from an antique land A
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone B
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, A
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, B
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, A
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read C
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, D
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: C
And on the pedestal these words appear: E
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: D
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' E
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay F
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare E
The lone and level sands stretch far away. F

>A
>B
>A
>B
>A

>C
>D
>C

>E
>D

>E
>F
>E
>F

What books do aliums read?

is the best new years resolution to stop reading so many books?

>>13493610
It’s true. You will get shit for not working, for not being a wagie full-time or part time. People will treat you differently and think something is wrong, and you will have to adjust your answers when introducing yourself to new people. But honestly, it’s not that bad lol in comparison to what you are getting in return, namely, and opportunity to read without interruption or distraction and to pursue whatever line of thought and wherever it takes you. Do you realize, the entire cannon, as well as all the second third and fourth hand resources are available to you now, anywhere anytime. If you choose to do this for long enough, I’m talking years, you will eventually have to get a bs job sprinkled here and there to satisfy the concerns of the people around you and you will likely have to go to school sometime as well, but that’s all to keep the normies from getting suspicious while you climb the summits. I think every era has an opportunity that opens up only for that era and I am quite convinced that we live in an era unlike any other, with an opportunity so great it’s quite literally unbelievable. The Internet, everyone believes and has come to know, is a miracle. And it’s miraculous power is that they can connect us and we are all more connected. What people are not realizing is that we are connecting with ghosts as well. I’ve come to realize that most people around me are dead, and that the truly living are those who are eternal, and I can know connect with them through their works, I can now hear them and learn from them. I hang out with them. I am trading in a norm life to stay in dialogue with holy spirits. I don’t see this as a hobby or something I choose to do, I don’t see any other life worth living then this. I don’t know where this is gonna take me, but I can tell you this, where I’ve come so far, I would never have dreamed possible.

Going to the gym now. Reminder to all of my fellow e/lit/e /lit/izens to get your natural endorphins pumping so that your brilliant minds can soak up as much as you are reading. Stay strong <3

Going to the exercise now. Reminder to all of my fellow e/lit/e /lit/izens to get your natural endorphins pumping so that your brilliant minds can soak up as much as you are reading. Stay strong

>>13024092
What if I told you it was worse back when. That now we are so connected that we can see, like a purple blotch, those who simple cogs, where as before, everything was kept hush behind the veneer of “success”. I may be wrong but I don’t think so. I think your expectations are unfounded. I think you underestimate how fortunate you are to be literate. It’s a very very special thing. Chocking up just thinking about it

>>11412943
I'm jk I love you don't be sad.

Beautiful.
Quick bump. Would love to know what people who have read much Shelly think of the three first poems OP has listed.
WIll post in an hour or so as well.

How am I supposed to understand the genius of The Wasteland with someone beside me explaining every litte detail and refrence?

>>9759225
Confession: The happiest I ever been in my entire life

>be 18
>discover Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Neitzche, Spencer, Dewey, Bergson, Santayana, Durant
>month of Ramadan, fasting 30 days
>decide to no fap/no porn too

By the end of that month I had gotten a bj from a uni chick and met my long term teenage qt gf. It was like by the end of the month I was wreaking with supremecy, self understanding and sweet semen

Anybody /fit/ & /lit/