/lit/ - Literature

>>15926856
Forget me.

I was browsing /lit/ at home one day and my mum asked who's the handsome man

Somedays I just want to live a degenerate wasteful life like this guy did.

would you?

>>15927997
yes I would forget him

>>15927387
I wonder what he would think about his apotheosis as the eternal enfant terrible. He became so boring and practical as an adult.

>>15927387
He did more in his life than 99% of people who browse this board.

>twink

>>15926856
Who dis?

>>15928146
How is running guns for African warlords "boring and practical"

>>15928146
I think the fact that he stopped writing when he reached adulthood is the most interesting aspect about him

>>15926856
I miss the constant posts about his boipussi

>>15926856
Not gay but who's this?

>>15930613
Rambo

>>15928146
i always thought him quitting poetry to be a logical step in his life. he viewed art as practical, the poet as a worker and thought that its duty was to reconciliate the material and spiritual world, but seeing it did not work he gave it up and thats pretty much the subject of une saison en enfer and many poems in illuminations. maybe he tried to pursue his dream in a different way

>>15926856

Imagine being silly old balding Verlaine and realizing your good luck as you put your little death into that tight B0IPUCCI.

>>15926856
I would kiss the poster of Rimbaud in my bedroom when I was 14. I always had a raging erection too, hot precum dripping from my teenage cock. Always trembling.

>>15931680
that Verlaine feel

>>15931680
Selected lines from Verlaine “Le bon disciple”

Quel Ange dur ainsi me bourre
Entre les épaules, tandis
Que je m’envole aus Paradis

Despite what modern science might deem unreliable, Verlaine passed his homosexuality test with flying colors....evidence of both active and passive. I’m guesssing the doctors found him perfectly “relaxed” with no resistance perhaps even evidence of Rimbaud inside him.

You know books and books have been written to explain the behavior of homosexuals. But it’s really as simple.....they like dick.

>>15933151

David Wojnarowicz had a thing for Rimbaud.

David Wojnarowicz had a thing for Rimbaud. As it happened, he got to "enjoy" a likewise brief life of dissipation, himself.

>>15933206

Get a load of this incel sitting alone at this uncomfortable fucking booth and those awful chair-backs.

>>15933151
dafuq?

I can't into poems.
I can't even read English poem, let alone English translation of French poems.

>>15928146
>le enfant terrible
You mean, justin bieber for b&w pedos?

if he did the same today he would not be that popular i guess

>>15935029
even in his own lifetime he was ignored. he received his laurels posthumously.

>>15929014
The most interesting thing about it was that he probably contributed to Italy's defeat against Ethiopia. If you read about his time in Africa, he became interested in making money and reading to gain practical knowledge. So yes, he did become boring and practical. His attempts to make a fortune in Africa seem romantic and adventurous, but were filled with strain and pitfalls - as many adventures are. I think his life makes the most sense if you view his repeated running away as motivated by escapism and trauma. He seemed to find some satisfaction with his life in Africa eventually, but even there ran himself down to the bone with travel and activity. His African adventures seem more sad than romantic when you scratch below the surface, and not just because the mythologised image of his youth doesn't appear to make sense of his adult life.

>>15930493
I think lots of people, academics included, overthink that detail of his life.

>>15931666
I agree with you mostly. Quitting was a logical step. But as an adult he kind of disowned his poetry even when it started to gain currency in France.

>>15934527
Here's your (boipussi)

>>15933151
Get therapy