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17344421

Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:03:46 2021 No.17344421 [Reply] [Original]

Give it t me straight, is this fag actually worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:05:06 2021 No.17344428 Yes

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:05:06 2021 No.17344429 >>17344421 The Importance of Being Earnest is the funniest thing I've ever read and The Ballad of Reading Gaol is quite moving. I haven't read anything else from him though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:06:20 2021 No.17344441 >>17344421 Do you like overblown, boy-thirsty prose masquerading as aesthetic contemplation? Or how about some repackaged platitudes that seem like witty aphorisms, but fall apart into dust upon closer inspection? If so, you betcha!

>>	Blarty Hongo !WegkZP4tiw Thu Jan 21 12:08:38 2021 No.17344458 >>17344421 Yes, but Dorian Gray is overrated imo. A lot of his poetry is also quite mannered.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:10:18 2021 No.17344475 >>17344441 use even more adjectives next time, C-

>>	samfag Thu Jan 21 12:12:00 2021 No.17344488 >>17344475 Fuck you!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:38:34 2021 No.17344739 File: 243 KB, 680x709, chad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17344441 >Do you like overblown, boy-thirsty prose

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:47:35 2021 No.17344825 >>17344421 No it's just midwit faggotry. Say it with me >Wilde >is >not >a >canonical >author

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:48:55 2021 No.17344836 >>17344825 You don't have to like him but he's canonical as a novelist, playwright, and poet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 21 12:50:32 2021 No.17344861 >>17344825 Nigger, you get a double first in classics from an Oxbridge college and you are canon regardless of any other worth.