/lit/ - Literature

>Anon I'm so glad you could take the time out of your busy schedule to help me with my work. Now could you find my copy of the complete poems of Hart Crane? I used to be able to recite his work completely off the heart but my memory just isn't what it used to be.

>Are ya defending the canon, son?

I want to go back to neetdom so bad. Wagie life is fucking awful. At least going to school everyday was with your peers and sometimes lessons could be actually interesting ect, but work culture is complete cancer and it's just constant drudgery every single fucking day. I try to make friends with people at work to try and make it a bit more bearable but it hasn't worked. Everybody including me is a miserable cunt. I have to do this shit for the rest of my life? What a joke.

>>15019792

>body falling apart due to old age
>literary standards going down the drain
>all his writer friends keep dying
>son has chronic health issues
>students don't want to fuck you anymore

it was a mercy that he finally went

>>14578378
>hr book

Let's see you /lit/
http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start

RIP Harold Bloom. There is no one to defend the canon now.

>>13129283

Because reciting Shakespeare (and Whitman, Stevens, Bible verses, etc.) has literally kept him alive. Look at him. He should have died aged ago but the unnatural magic of literature keeps him going.

>>12673427

He smokes a little medicinal weed to help him deal with the effects of aging

>>12260193

No he's full of life

>>11871328

>Anon I'm so glad you could take the time out of your busy schedule to help me with my work. Now could you find my copy of the complete poems of Hart Crane? I used to be able to recite his work completely off the heart but my memory just isn't what it used to be.

>>11086064
>>11086068
I hope so.

One last job...

>>10833683
Soon to be 0.

>Gass, Wilbur, Ashbury, Salinger, Updike all deceased
>Pynchon and Bloom in their 80s
>White and Banville in their 70s

There's not going to be anything readable for a long time. Why is this generation so shit that we only have the works of leftovers from previous ones to look forward to?

>>10454219

death

>Young man, I'm so glad you took the time out of your busy student life to help me around the house. Now could you please pass me that copy of Henry IV? I want to read the words of my great hero, Falstaff. Strange, I usually have all of Shakespeare memorized, but my memory just isn't what it used to be...

>>10193016

Not for long

>"I will never cease mourning the loss of my beloved former student Marina Keegan. This book gives partial evidence of the extraordinary promise that departed with her. Throughout she manifests authentic dramatic invention and narrative skill. Beyond all those, she makes a vital appeal to everyone in her generation not to waste their gifts in mere professionalism but instead to invest their youthful pride and exuberance both in self-development and in the improvement of our tormented society.” (Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, Yale University)

>Anon, I'm so glad you can take the time to visit me and help around the house.
>Could you please pass me that Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry IV, Part One? I want to read some of the great words of my hero, Falstaff. Funny... I usually have them memorized, but these days I just can't seem to recall things as well as I used to.

I can't cook, I can't eat, there's no discernible nutrition.

>>9315420
Ooooooo...Harold, I am the ghost of your father...oooo!

>>9226559
>I wish I just wouldn't sperg out in front of him.

>"Anon, please stop asking me about Stephen King and Harry Potter books. I don't like them, let's please leave it at that."
>"Anon, stop trying to get me to post on your internet message boards. I have no interest in that."
>"Anon, this is a course on Shakespeare. Stop trying to steer the class discussions towards talking about DFW."