/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14695959]

>It's over, Eve. We lost everything.
>But what about paradise Adam?
>It's all been lost. Paradise? Lost.

John Milton was such a fucking hack.

[Anonymous No.14695968]

>Oh Jake, why does the sun have to set?
>But Brett....-Jake grabs her by the shoulders-...The sun...also rises.
Hemingway needs to be purged from the shelves, what kind of corny shit is this

[Anonymous No.14695970]

>>14695959
want 2 fuck snek

[Anonymous No.14695975]

>"So that's it, huh?" She asked pensively. "I guess we were the criers of lot 49 all along"
what the fuck is his problem?

[Anonymous No.14695980]

>and so ends the beautiful story of Joseph and his brothers
Wow thomas a little on the nose there don't you think?

[Anonymous No.14695982]

>In the end, Leopold realized it's the friends you make along the way that really matter. He came full circle to realize this; he was a real modern day - dare I say it? - he was a modern day Ulysses.
Aaaand why is Joyce famous again? garbage tier stuff.

[Anonymous No.14695997]

>>14695959
>John Milton was such a fucking hack.
The truth that makes anglos seethe

[Anonymous No.14696008]

>This is evidently the effect not of the thoughtlessness of our age, but of its ripened power of judgement, which will no longer be put off with illusory knowledge, and which demands that reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than... the critique of pure reason itself.
Really Kant?

[Anonymous No.14696022]

you guys are killing me lmfao

[Anonymous No.14696035]

>What if the true Garden was the friends we made along the way

[Anonymous No.14696042]

>>14696035
That's basically satan's position. He decides to just troll anonymously for the lulz with his friends

[Anonymous No.14696085]

>Mersault grabbed the priest by the shoulders, yelling now, "Don't you see how different we are? How disparate are our worlds? No, you refuse to understand what it's like to see the world as I do. You and everybody else. To you, to them, I will only ever be... a stranger."
Ruined the book for me.

[Anonymous No.14696108]

>But do you want to know what Dante, King of the Poets, did when the heaven he sought was placed right in front of his eyes?
>He Laughed.
>And Beatrice laughed as well, to the point where tears were pouring out of her eyes.
>"Virgil I.... really wish i had been born in the same era as you."
>"You led us on such an unbelievable journey... !!? What a funny story!!"
>"Hey Beatrice!!! How about we name this journey that no one has done yet..."
>"The Divine Comedy"
Really? That's how Dante ends it after all these years?

[Anonymous No.14696119]

>>14695959
>Laertes said that no other man could have gone on such a journey. As Odysseus looked over the field, he smiled, and said, 'It was truly, an Odyssey'
Homer was a hack.

[Anonymous No.14696123]

>When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Irish pseud desu

[Anonymous No.14696133]

>"Hey stop ganging up on me! You guys are really a couple of moby dicks!"

This is one of the best American prose writers of all time?

[Anonymous No.14696567]

>>14695997
im angloid as fuck and i thought he was a subversive hack at 16

it's not a bold opinion

[Anonymous No.14696966]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.14697199]

>and in the end, am I not a purified man because I have withstood my crime and punishment?
Uh why do soi bois love this guy so much, again?