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There's this short story (maybe) where there's a puritan who wears dark clothes and bans dancing and merriment and the like, lest satan intervene, and then he dies and satan's like "thanks for being my main man"

Anyone know what it is?

>> No.7301394
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It's not "young goodman brown" by the way

>> No.7301397

>>7301382
Sounds like something Nathaniel Hawthorne would write

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>>7301397
Right?

But I feel it was shorter than a short story, an anecdote maybe, like Maugham's Appointment in Samarra.

It's fucking killing me ;_;

>> No.7301450

>>7301382
just keep posting those fucking pictures op. don't care abt your gayas story but these pictures are awesome

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>>7301450
I will, lol

But please ask around if you have any friends into short stories, this is killing me :c

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bump

I checked all the famous Hawthorne stories and I don't think it's it

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>> No.7301517

is it Footloose?

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>>7301517
>Footloose
No, lmao

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I've heard a similar story/anecdote, just about a guy who *secretly* had all these evil thoughts but went and raised a nice family, only to laugh at them on his deathbed.

It sounds like a Christian folk tale

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Does anyone have a digital copy of Joyce's "Ulysse" in French? Can't find one anywhere. Would like to read parts of the translation to see if it's any good before purchasing.

>> No.7301837

>>7301821
No, it's not.
I've read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and most of Ulysses in French for a Modern Languages investigation. Both are shit; stick to the English original.
Believe me, with obscure authors like Joyce, you're always better off reading the originals.

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bump

>> No.7303327

Mark Twain, maybe? I seem to remember something similar in 'the celebrated jumping frog and other stories'.

>> No.7303345

>>7301773
sounds like every dad ever

>> No.7303352

It's called Footloose, I think

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>>7303327
do you remember the story name?

>> No.7304226

17th century Footloose?

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>>7303345
It's like you knew my dad.

>> No.7304836

>>7301382
A Moral Little Tale, by Lord Dunsany

>> No.7305394

>>7304836
>And when the Devil said that God made Love that earnest man sat up in bed and shouted "Blasphemy! Blasphemy!"
kek, this anti-puritan literature is great stuff.

>> No.7305396

>>7301821
Kickin' 'fro, man.

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