/lit/ - Literature

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear’d by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!”

>>23217205

>>23150802
>mfw i saw a video of a baby being violently sodomized a few years ago on /b/
>masturbation is still to this day something that I do out of necessity with indifference and disgust

>>23092061
DFW is my 21st century Socrates

>started making a list of the poems I really like
>most of them are about romantic love
>I've never had a gf

>>22982033
How the fuck does he do it? Seriously...
I want my mind to be this entertaining.

>>22953227
>>Plate-o

Did reading Plato make any of you guys profoundly happier?

He never stopped believing in the science

Just finished Assassin's Fate

/tv/ here, please stop making fun of us

>>20015214
>start video
>go to mute it because i don't care about what she says i'm only here for booba
>mfw i had already muted it instinctively

i'm so proud of myself

i have no where else to post this

>feel no progress in russian
>keep going anyway
>today for no reason
>realize i know half these words and don't have to look them up

always keep going even when you think you suck

>>19598375
they cant keep getting away with it

My power finally came back on after a storm last night

>>17408059

My college advisor signed me up for a literary criticism class this semester. So far, I enjoyed reading Everyday Use and A Rose for Emily. As the class goes on, it becomes progressively more retarded. We have to learn political criticisms, but only Marxist and feminist perspectives. We're at gay criticism now, and I have to read Don't Explain, which is a collection of short stories by some lady named Jewelle Gomez. I looked through the summaries of each short story, and the story "Houston" is supposed to be about a black lesbian vampire.

God, help me.

I don't want to do anything anymore, I don't like anything, nothing brings me joy. I wake up and there's literally nothing for me to look forward to in the day. Please please help me I'm not going to last long this way

I just want him to have a posh pseudaeologist back on to talk about make believe civilizations for 3 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ofFnpxUTUw
Farewell...

>And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

We never got the second book hinted at in the epilogue

>have to do my assignments and work on a project
>just wanna talk to my gf

she's not actually my gf yet tho

>think of that kid in elementary school who annoyed me but suddenly told me that he was gonna miss me and appreciated me and displayed the most maturity and affection someone that age had ever shown me
>get teary eyed regretting i couldn't have been a better friend

im so sorry eric i did not deserve your friendship