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Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:05:21 2014 No.5361757 [Reply] [Original]

>reading the foreward
>having the story spoiled for you

Why do they do this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:06:58 2014 No.5361765 i wonder why the concept of the spoiler is something that only appears within the last hundred years, coinciding with the emergence of tv and film. (ps because it's a pleb concept that overvalues plot)

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:10:35 2014 No.5361774 File: 1.90 MB, 312x250, fedora.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361765 >I'm reading it for literary merits only

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:14:28 2014 No.5361789 File: 24 KB, 350x470, LRH.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361774 >I'm less of a pleb, because I enjoy things "honestly," as if enjoying it intellectually doesn't come with its own, deeper, richer set of pleasures

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:16:20 2014 No.5361796 File: 21 KB, 500x458, 1538951_10202152630411720_146687315_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361774 >I'm worried about the 'ending' being 'spoiled' like an uneducated housewife watching TV soaps

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:18:50 2014 No.5361807 File: 1.31 MB, 1440x900, fedurra.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361796 >I scorn the plebeians enjoying engaging plots over the XX century phenomenona >"Finnegan's Wake" is my bookfu

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:21:10 2014 No.5361817 File: 186 KB, 1024x1024, khkjhk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361807 >Finnegan's Nobody said there was anything wrong with enjoying engaging plots

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:22:50 2014 No.5361822 File: 63 KB, 526x296, vlog_jan_08.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361765 >>5361774 >>5361789 >>5361796 >>5361807 >>5361817 >i read

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 04:23:37 2014 No.5361825 File: 9 KB, 250x250, shiggy diggy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5361817 >placing the interpunction correctly

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 07:45:19 2014 No.5362321 >>5361757 >Why do they do this? Standard scholarly publishing. Don't read introductions or forewords if you want to "clean" read a text. Normally, literary critics are reading 2 or 3 novels a day, so need intros.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:41:17 2014 No.5364726 >>5361757 forwards are for squares

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 30 20:50:52 2014 No.5364772 >>5361774 It's funny that he fumbles with the hat.