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My sweet naughty girl I got your hot letter tonight and have been trying to picture you frigging your cunt in the closet. How do you do it? Do you stand against the wall with your hand tickling up under your clothes or do you squat down on the hole with your skirts up and your hand hard at work in through the slit of your drawers? Does it give you the horn now to shit? I wonder how you can do it. Do you come in the act of shitting or do you frig yourself off first and then shit? It must be a fearfully lecherous thing to see a girl with her clothes up frigging furiously at her cunt, to see her pretty white drawers pulled open behind and her bum sticking out and a fat brown thing stuck half-way out of her hole. You say you will shit your drawers, dear, and let me fuck you then. I would like to hear you shit them, dear, first and then fuck you. Some night when we are somewhere in the dark and talking dirty and you feel your shite ready to fall put your arms round my neck in shame and shit it down softly. The sound will madden me and when I pull up your dress.

>>21410507
>>21410540
Hold on, that's what she looked like after giving birth to two of his children and also being old
This is what she looked like young

>She really makes me Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk, if you know what I mean!

>compares James Joyce to some faggot youtuber
based, fuck Joyce
https://youtu.be/na0918kBX9M?t=425

Just read "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" in Dubliners. I've been really liking these stories until this one. Is there something I'm missing here? It seemed far less profound than all the stories previous. Is there some history here that I need to understand before this story makes sense? Also general Dubliners thread. Favorite lines, stories, etc.

Zizek on Nora's little naughty farties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDYLYYKNruY

>>10881119
BRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

What is your favorite book on the topic of an unrequited love?

Face it /lit/, you'd fuck the farts out of her too.

What's like 'Dubliners' but not depressing as fuck ?

The guy is the worst because he used his own patheticness to try to get laid. Do you think it's ok to force your tongue down someone's throat? The fact that he's 30 and hasn't learned how to kiss is sad, but doesn't excuse his weird attempts to control her emotions. She never humiliated him, and any critique of her rests on ignoring the fact that it was her roommate who made the less-than-polite text, which even if it was the narrator would merely be less-than-polite.

Also, this thread is mostly dudes jealous that their short story won't go viral.It was an 7/10 story that confirmed the way sad boys (yes, like you) try to manipulate women, so it resonated with people, like how DFW's (he was a stalker btw look it up) whinings seems more pertinent to you.

You'd think people "concerned" with literature would at least be happy that a bunch of people who aren't the usual audience of fiction are reading, but no, you have to whine and project your own sense of failure on a board where your preprogrammed response to hostility from women will be confirmed.

>no Joyce

I edited this heavily after some anons remarked on how the flow was horrendous. Take a gander: https://pastebin.com/58jyN6uV

>>9849983
>who first stepped this into being?

Was concerned about this at first cause I thought you used stepped wrong but, it's a pretty good line. Watch out for passive voice though
>a thin long road which trails through the field and up to the forest

Delete "which", there's no finishing clause.
Combine the last two sentences of your first paragraph.

>a man come
A man came?
> What is seen on his skin is a story written in scars of a coarse man.

Bad flow, I like your unique style but that sentence is hard to read. Also, passive voice again. Stop.
The next sentence is also hard to read, you use "where" twice.

>rasping voice groans
Pick one, rasping or groans. Either achieves your desired effect by itself.
>He begins clearing, stopping to drink from the steam, eat, and sleep.

Parallelism. Add "to" to your other verbs.
The rising with the sun line is nice.
All in all: fix the flow, chill with passive voice. Your style is nice though.
>>9849994
You've got the voice.
>I worked my way through the shelves until I had exhausted their reserves. It was a few months after my twenty-fifth birthday that I found the chamber. I had observed the ancient door in my prior years, but my attempts to open it had been futile.
Okay so he knew about the chamber before, why say found? Say "after my 25th birthday the chamber was opened to me."
>I intrepidly
Delete, I know he's scared so it must've been a bold thing for him to open the door at all. Or say "I rushed to open the door," conveys an immediacy as well.
>appropriate fitting,
I mean if you're going for Joyce purple prose is warranted but, just delete appropriate I don't need it.
>singularly, perplexing tomes
How does he know they are perplexing? He hasn't read them or even their titles yet.
>rubbed my deceitful eyes, for what I saw could not be real.
Delete deceitful.
All in all you captured the tone well, although I question why he was afraid of the sea yet, his biology was naturally inclined to it? Wouldn't he exhibit a proficiency for swimming or fondness for the sea? I mean, this is a mini Shadow Over Innsmouth story right? Most of the people were fishermen in that no? Great story by the way, the Shadow Over Innsmouth.
I'd say your prose was purple but you are copying Lovecraft here so, I'll just have to shrug it off. Good job.
>>9850045
Second sentence, "delete though".
> Evidently she manifested the same behaviours when freshly fucked by her husband as this was what told him that she was finding hers elsewhere, not long after the first consummation of our affair.
This sentence doesn't flow well. Break it up into two.
>I picked up first from a soft and pasty young man
Delete from.
I like the last paragraph, althought the flow is weird. You really build up the atmosphere before that brutal last line. Nice.
>>9850102
lol give some context.
"

> I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her.

What did he mean by this?

>I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

>One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

>If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

>Does nobody understand? (last words)

Trying to read more English books rather than translations but it seems like every book thats recommended to me on this board is a translation. What do you recommend? I haven't read a lot so classics are valid.

What I've enjoy in English
>Fitzgerald: Gatsby, Tender is the Night
>Stoner
>Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest
>Joyce: Portrait of an Artist, Dubliners

/lit/–

How do I write a love letter?

I watched this, am I ready to read Ulysses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1aBt-_Zs4

>The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-
nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later
on life down through all christian minstrelsy.

Did he just smash his head on his keyboard? Literally any child can do that. It's just like modern art, where any piece of shit is considered to be a work of art. So can someone tell me what makes this guy great again?

Why is /lit/ so intellectually rigorous and clinical, yet flames anyone who criticizes faith and the existence of God? Am i missing something? Are the same people who make posts about the illusion of consciousness and free will the same people who call anyone who shits on religion a fedora tipper?

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>>9089606
Joyce and his daughter, who went nuts by failing in love with Joyce disciple Samuel Beckett

ITT: Your favorite passage from an author.

I'll start off with James Joyce


>My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.