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>author mentions the city you live in

>> No.19351517
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>You live in Birmingham

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>Your city isn't on the state map

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>>19351517
>You live in Birmingham

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The Simpsons visit your town/city/county

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>The Simpsons visit your town/city/country

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>>19351562
John Updike

>> No.19351583 [DELETED] 

>book mentions the Swan River Colony
>book mentions the port of Fremantle

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>>19351517
big up the second city

>> No.19351595

>>19351556
Yeah but nah but nah but yeah you’re a cunt. The Simpsons got Australia perfectly correct.

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>book mentions the Swan River Colony
>book mentions the port of Fremantle
>book is set in Guildford Grammar School

>> No.19351597

>read book set in city i live in
>get pissed off at all the innacuracies

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>>19351595

>> No.19351613

>>19351502
>Me when reading Steinbeck

>> No.19351624

>>19351610
+1

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>wen the arther starts talking to you and he knows your name

>> No.19353451

no one knows my shithole

>> No.19353457

I'm from the buffalo area and a buffalo name-drop isn't too exciting for me, but god damn when Fitzgerald called out my small ass hometown Lockport (and Batavia which is down the road) in tender is the night... Mind-blowing

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>writer from 200 years ago and who you associated with a totally different region not only mentions small town but even certain trees near you.

>> No.19353734

>>19351502
The opening scene of Norm MacDonald's "Based on a True Story" takes place in Edmonton.

>> No.19353845

>>19351654
sometimes my barrel does that

>> No.19354811

>>19351502
Nabokov name dropped an obscure address that is like 15-20 minutes away from me

>> No.19354819

>>19353467
Kino. Only literature can give you this feel.

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>>19351502
Author reduces the mentalite of the entire coastal strip dairy industry pet industry land theft settler world that the state apparatus sponsored for pretty much everyone you know to a crystallisation of the theological failure of Methodism to account for the religious experience of being raped by environment and climate and your insufficiency in the face of your wife oh yeah and I’ve drunk at that pub.

>> No.19354913

>>19353467
What author/region?

>> No.19354963

>>19351502
I live where Nietzsche went insane