I hate reading (because it's boring and tedious) but holy shit, his short stories are comfy as fuck. Why can't all authors be like him? Why must they use big words, and describe every little irrelevant detail?

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Anonymous Thu Sep 21 10:29:16 2017 No.10052744 [Reply] [Original]

I hate reading (because it's boring and tedious) but holy shit, his short stories are comfy as fuck. Why can't all authors be like him? Why must they use big words, and describe every little irrelevant detail?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 10:30:37 2017 No.10052757 >>10052744 >why must they use big words You're reading a translation, aren't you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 10:32:02 2017 No.10052766 >>10052744 I don't know

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 11:26:31 2017 No.10053036 akutagawa and soseki are great some kind of japanese modernist sensibility I guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 15:47:56 2017 No.10053808 >He committed suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital. fucking nips

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