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Anonymous Mon Mar 6 23:11:40 2017 No.9200983 [Reply] [Original]

>you will never love anything as much as he loves tennis

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 6 23:25:17 2017 No.9201026 File: 128 KB, 352x335, 911.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] He didn't even love tennis that much, he was just kind of good at it as a youth and you take IJ as "tennis book" + DFW having played tennis IRL and conclude your dumbass conclusion

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 6 23:29:35 2017 No.9201044 >>9201026 I'm reading his essays on tennis you birdbrain

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:14:56 2017 No.9201247 I'm afraid I'll never love anything at all

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:16:42 2017 No.9201252 >implying he's presently capable of love

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:18:10 2017 No.9201260 >>9201252 I forgot to use past tense Lock me up and throw away the key

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:19:31 2017 No.9201266 File: 11 KB, 286x289, HermanMelville_NewBioImage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9200983 >you will never love anyone like he loves Nathaniel Hawthorne.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:19:56 2017 No.9201268 >>9200983 lol what was the highest he ever played? like III division college? yeah what a champion of the game

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:30:13 2017 No.9201305 >>9201266 I never understood his respect and admiration for Hawthorne. I read The Scarlet Letter and found the prose to be excessive and superfluous, nothing even close to the genius of Melville.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:30:30 2017 No.9201306 >>9200983 He was a really smart male model. That's why Will Ferrell had to kill him.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:32:09 2017 No.9201308 >>9201305 Read Hawthorne's Tales.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:32:50 2017 No.9201312 >>9201268 He said he loved it. What the fuck are you on about

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:33:50 2017 No.9201317 >>9201305 I dunno. I havent read him yet, but apparently he's the brother in law of one of my great great uncles.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:34:24 2017 No.9201320 >>9201247 Snap out of it kid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:35:28 2017 No.9201325 >>9201305 Hawthorne was probably convenient to have as a correspondent, just for the publicity friction. not that he praised moby dick publicly to the extent he truly felt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 7 00:35:44 2017 No.9201327 >>9201260 It's all good. I was just softly trolling those that have a hardon for dfw