/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17747368]

Name a more iconic opening line.

[Anonymous No.17747387]

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time tozz get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me

[Anonymous No.17747420]

>>17747387
Probably that one but I was more talking about non fiction

[Anonymous No.17747424]

>>17747368
'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold'

[Anonymous No.17747429]

>>17747420
Snappy introductions are hardly the realm of non-fiction

[Anonymous No.17747443]

>>17747429
Actually I take that back

[Anonymous No.17747447]

>>17747387
source

[Anonymous No.17747453]

>>17747368
[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off.

[Anonymous No.17747454]

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

[Anonymous No.17747475]

>>17747447
is this bait

[Anonymous No.17747490]

>>17747453
Based

[Anonymous No.17747512]

>>17747447
Morbid Penis

[Anonymous No.17747525]

>>17747368
>I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, Ihave published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen.

[Anonymous No.17747537]

>>17747454
ei era basato
e di rosso, pillato!

[Anonymous No.17747594]

>>17747387
I should read Moby dick, this is great. Also Op is great as well.

[Anonymous No.17747616]

>>17747368
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

[Anonymous No.17747628]

>>17747525
Me:
>Hitler?
>>A: Luther.
Another piece of germanias brain rot falls into place.

>>17747368
>In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth
Obviously.

[Anonymous No.17747649]

>>17747628
Can’t argue with that one.

[Anonymous No.17747653]

>>17747387
No wonder yanks love this crap. Reads primitive description of a.d.d.

[Anonymous No.17747664]

Once a bitch, always a bitch what I say.

[Anonymous No.17747676]

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
or
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

[Anonymous No.17747680]

Sorry guys, make the way for the real one

[Anonymous No.17747727]

>>17747680
This one is unsurpassable.

[Anonymous No.17747758]

>>17747420
>>17747429
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

[Anonymous No.17747818]

Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J’ai reçu une télégramme de l’asile: <<Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués.>>. Cela ne veut rien dire. C’était peut-être hier.

Today, maman died. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. I received a telegram from the old folks home: “Mother deceased. Burial tomorrow. Our condolences.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

[Anonymous No.17747853]

>>17747368
>Let us begin the revolution, so that in victory we may be Les Miserable.
really Hugo?

[Anonymous No.17747872]

>And truly it was time for The Return of the King.

[Anonymous No.17747878]

>>17747680
Lasagna
- V.lad

[Anonymous No.17747906]

>>17747368
>aujourd'hui, maman est morte.

[Anonymous No.17747941]

>>17747818
>>17747906
damn, beat me to it

[Anonymous No.17747969]

>>17747758
not even a commie, but it's gotta be this one

[Anonymous No.17747984]

>>17747680
cringe

[Anonymous No.17747990]

>>17747420
The world is everything that is the case.

[Anonymous No.17748015]

>There are no objective values.

[Anonymous No.17748044]

Mother died today

[Anonymous No.17748049]

>>17747990

[Anonymous No.17748082]

>>17747368
you know this word exists right?

[Anonymous No.17748127]

>>17748044
>Mother died today

[Anonymous No.17748320]

I wonder where A.J. Ayer started

[Anonymous No.17748394]

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lantejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino. Tenía en su casa una ama que pasaba de los cuarenta, y una sobrina que no llegaba a los veinte, y un mozo de campo y plaza, que así ensillaba el rocín como tomaba la podadera. Frisaba la edad de nuestro hidalgo con los cincuenta años; era de complexión recia, seco de carnes, enjuto de rostro, gran madrugador y amigo de la caza. Quieren decir que tenía el sobrenombre de Quijada, o Quesada, que en esto hay alguna diferencia en los autores que deste caso escriben; aunque por conjeturas verosímiles se deja entender que se llamaba Quijana. Pero esto importa poco a nuestro cuento: basta que en la narración dél no se salga un punto de la verdad.

[Anonymous No.17748802]

>riverrun,

[Anonymous No.17748805]

>>17748015
Loved this book

[Anonymous No.17748837]

Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel AirIn west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

[Anonymous No.17748867]

>>17747453
Based

[Anonymous No.17748958]

In the beginning

[Anonymous No.17748960]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

[Anonymous No.17748971]

>>17747387
Based.

This one and 'I always get the shakes before a drop.' really stick with me.

[Anonymous No.17749027]

>>17748805
It's a classic

[Anonymous No.17749051]

>>17747368
>Someone must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

[Anonymous No.17749088]

>>17747387
If I were alone I would think that I would go on some long distance freighter as an ordinary crew member - but I think that sort of a job is so gruelling that one has no time to read much?

[Anonymous No.17749103]

>>17747368
am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well -- let it get worse!

[Anonymous No.17749117]

>>17749051
It's the law's duty to proscribe what's wrong and your notion of "truth" does not work here, you pre-post-modernist Kike degenerate.

[Anonymous No.17749156]

>>17747818
>Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
Right in the feels.

[Anonymous No.17749162]

>>17747368
I would to heaven that I were so much clay,
As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling -
Because at least the past were passed away -
And for the future - (but I write this reeling,
Having got drunk exceedingly today,
So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling)
I say - the future is a serious matter -
And so - for God's sake - hock and soda water!

[Anonymous No.17749216]

>>17747387
Am I the only one who thinks that there is a too strong break between "Call me Ishmael" and "Some years ago..."? It feels like Melville started the novel with "Some year ago" and later went back to add "Call me Ishmael". It's not really how you should write/edit your books. I can feel the discontinuity.

[Anonymous No.17749218]

>>17747368
only one enemy remained; two if you count god

[Anonymous No.17749226]

>>17749218
That is cringe to be generous.

[Anonymous No.17749231]

>>17747368

[Anonymous No.17749236]

>It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

>>17748394
>>17747453
based

[Anonymous No.17749242]

[Anonymous No.17749251]

>>17749226
why?

[Anonymous No.17749307]

>>17747984
Go back

[Anonymous No.17749310]

>>17749251
Because it sounds like the author wanted to write something effective, and one of the most important things an author is supposed to be able to do is to dissimulate. (Giovanni Della Casa, Galateo)

[Anonymous No.17749353]

>>17749242
What is this?

[Anonymous No.17749361]

>>17747454
this is perfect indeed.

[Anonymous No.17749410]

>>17747628
>Another piece of germanias brain rot falls into place.
People aren't born anti-semetic, they become it through experience with them. Might have lost ww2 but purged the jew from all his power on continental europe (with some soviet help) so i call worth.
And clearly you mutts are enjoying your kikes a lot these past 60 years.

[Anonymous No.17749436]

>>17749410
What are your personal experiences with Jews?

[Anonymous No.17749456]

>>17749436
Only ever met them when they came to visit form America to lecture us about their experience in the holohoax. So I dont really have to hate jews, I jsut dont blame Luther et all for hating them.

[Anonymous No.17749675]

>>17749353
good bye to all that

[Anonymous No.17749716]

>>17749307
to where? reddit? cause im pretty sure that's the hometown of Nabokov fans.

[Anonymous No.17749827]

In a world

[Anonymous No.17749953]

>>17749103
came here to post this

[Anonymous No.17750237]

>>17747680
Brilliant

[Anonymous No.17750262]

>>17747368
See the child.

[Anonymous No.17750280]

>>17749216
He's framing it like a conversation, as of the guy is speaking extemporaneously. Read it slowly and with pauses

[Anonymous No.17750366]

>>17749088
No idea, my own 'get to sea' plan for if I even just want to drop out of my life would be to become a trucker or join a wildfire crew

[Anonymous No.17750516]

>>17750366
trucker is the most hellish job imaginable

[Anonymous No.17750540]

>>17747368
A creaming cums across this guy

[Anonymous No.17750549]

>>17750516
Really? It always seemed pretty comfy to me

[Anonymous No.17750556]

>>17750549
They have to do meth to drive 18 hours straight, shit in gas stations, sleep in roach motels, etc, its a tough life

[Anonymous No.17750559]

>>17750556
The only one of those that doesn't sounds appealing is the meth

[Anonymous No.17750657]

>>17750556
Those are non-union conditions.

[Anonymous No.17750856]

>>17747368
It all started as a mistake

[Anonymous No.17750929]

>>17747447
Moby dick

[Anonymous No.17750946]

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

>inb4 commie fag. I was 14 that was deep to 14 year old me

[Anonymous No.17750962]

>>17749231
Klaus "Anal" Schwab

[Anonymous No.17751296]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most Merciful

[Anonymous No.17751697]

>>17747368
Got a package from him, I wonder whats inside

[Anonymous No.17751789]

>>17747758
I also really like it in Spanish: un espectro se cierne sobre Europa.

[Anonymous No.17752043]

>>17748960
>Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell
Damn Tolkien giving tranny hate before they existed

[Anonymous No.17752050]

>>17747368
That's not Iconic.

[Anonymous No.17752071]

>>17751296
Dis nigga bringing a nuke to a knife fight

[Anonymous No.17752078]

>>17747453
Never read his books but i knew it was him, kek

[Anonymous No.17752085]

>The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed

[Anonymous No.17752089]

>>17747680
Unequivocally based

[Anonymous No.17752241]

>Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my
own life, or whether that station will be held by
anybody else, these pages must show.

[Anonymous No.17752292]

>>17747818
What an edgelord.

[Anonymous No.17752357]

>>17747680
Kino

[Anonymous No.17752358]

>this essay has been brought to you by NordVPN

[Literally perfect No.17752409]

Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno, tra due catene non interrotte di monti, tutto a seni e a golfi, a seconda dello sporgere e del rientrare di quelli, vien, quasi a un tratto, a ristringersi, e a prender corso e figura di fiume, tra un promontorio a destra, e un'ampia costiera dall'altra parte; e il ponte, che ivi congiunge le due rive, par che renda ancor più sensibile all'occhio questa trasformazione, e segni il punto in cui il lago cessa, e l'Adda rincomincia, per ripigliar poi nome di lago dove le rive, allontanandosi di nuovo, lascian l'acqua distendersi e rallentarsi in nuovi golfi e in nuovi seni.

[Anonymous No.17752422]

>>17747368
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
You just know the next 1,079 pages are gonna be a wild ride.

[Anonymous No.17752694]

>>17750559
meth is amazing don't do it.
>>17750366
Get into fire and become the wisest man in the forest. Train a bunch of rapey idiots, stay super fit into your 40s, and get a nice pension. Plus heroic wild shit like jumping out of helicopters without being a baby killer.

[Anonymous No.17753508]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.

[Anonymous No.17753539]

>>17747387
>—never mind how long precisely—
OMG THIS IS SO QUIRKY!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.17753564]

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

[Anonymous No.17753585]

>>17747447
Mein kampf

[Anonymous No.17753592]

>>17747653
Shut up nigger

[Anonymous No.17753713]

>>17747368
Ahhh fresh OC

[Anonymous No.17753950]

I went down the the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon

[Anonymous No.17754285]

>>17747454
Based