/lit/ - Literature

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Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan

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The Twelve Chairs
The Golden Calf
The Good Soldier Svejk

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Golden Trio
Dickens
Twain
Leacock

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Parzival.

>If there is anyone who praises women better than I, I will surely not be the one to hold it against him. I would be glad to hear their joys extended far and wide. For only one of them am I unwilling to do loyal service, and against her my anger is still fresh--ever since I found her in disloyalty. I am Wolfram von Eschnebach, and I know a thing or two about poetry, and I am a tongs at holding my anger against a woman. This one has offered me such an offence that I cannot do other than hate her. On account of this the others hate me. Why, alas! do they do so? Though their hatred troubles me, it is their womanhood that is to blame, since I did go too far and I have done myself harm. This will probably never happen again, but they should not be over-hasty to storm my bastion, or else they are likely to run into defensive combat. I have not forgotten how to judge both their manners and their lives. To any woman following propriety I shall be a defending champion of her reputation: her distress troubles me to the depths of my heart.
>A man's praise limps like a spavined horse when he declares all women are off the board just to show his own lady to advantage. Any lady that wants to inspect my rights, both see them and hear them, I will not deceive her. My birth was to the knightly trade, and if my bravery is under-rated by one who loves me for my poetry, I consider that she is weak in her wits. If I seek a good woman's love, and if I am not to win her love's reward by my shield and my spear, then let her bestow her favor accordingly. A man aiming at love through knightly deeds is, after all, playing for very high stakes. If the woman would not take it for flattery, I would add further unknown words to this story for you, I would continue the adventure for you. But if anyone requests me to do so, let him not consider it a book. I don't even know a single letter of the alphabet. Plenty of people get their material that way, but this adventure steers without books. Rather than have anybody think it is a book, I would sit naked without a towel, the way I would sit in the bath--if I didn't forget the bouquet of twigs.
- End of chapter 2.

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it was literally just this meme but with text about hunter biden
>when your dads the vice president you can do whatever you want

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The divine comedy

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nevermind guys one of the /pol/ fellas found it for me
continue as if i was never here

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Obligatory Catch 22 post. It really is a funny book. One of the few that can make me consistently laugh out loud.

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Journey to the West. Shame it doesn't get read in the Anglosphere.

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hilarious posts about basedjak and gigachad on /lit/ 2020