The Literature Topic

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Nice literature goes here.

in the cafe
she pockets scraps of talk
from other tables

projector screen
at funeral reads
NO SIGNAL

the Butterfly House
my sister forgets
her diagnosis

[rabid_fox]

"And yet on his face there was a gentle smile, as if he had finally come to approve his own disintegraton".

[nickspoon]

All art is quite useless.

[gforce422]

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

-C.S. Lewis

[Baconsticks]

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- E. E. Cummings

[nickspoon]

As I was going up the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish, he’d stay away.

-- Hughes Mearns

[Doc Sigma]

And did those teeth
In ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?

[Caoimhin]

"A text on Christopher Columbus: it analyzes his signature and finds in it a reference to the pyramids. Columbus's real aim was to reconstruct the Temple of Jerusalem, since he was a grand master of the Templars-in-exile. Being a Portugese Jew and therefore an expert cabalist, he used talismanic spells to calm storms and overcome scurvy."

-Casaubon, excerpt from Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

(fantastic book, forget about reading The Da Vinci Code, this is actually a good conspiracy novel and doesn't take itself seriously. Now to find a copy of the Illuminatus! trilogy...)

[Bocaj Claw]

And did those teeth
In ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?

Well, it is a man's life in the British Dental Association.

[Mista_B]

Literature is the greatest telepathy we have yet devised to send intact our very thoughts into the eons.

[Muninn]

Look, don't kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you
By rubbing its hands and feet.

- Kobayashi Issa

[simon]

Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, "Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

[Shinigetsu]

I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.

-Confucius

[optiMITCHprime]

"Be silent in that solitude which is not loneliness, for then the spirits of the dead who stood in life before thee- and their will shall overshadow thee." Edgar A. Poe

[Zaaphod]

"He liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: soft yet firm, sweet yet tart, and covered in stubbly brown fur."