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This one struck me.

>> No.10776809

Unless Franklin is a theme in this text, that's slightly pretentious.

>> No.10776858

>>10776809
Unless you are illiterate, referencing Benjamin Franklin flying a kite is not an obscure allusion.

Did you know Beethoven composed even after going deaf? I know that because I wear a monocle and have a permanently reserved private opera box where I molest orphan girls with a cane. How dare a pleb like you even read my post?

>> No.10776873

>>10776858
Randomly mentioning famous people who are associated with pivotal moments in history where they are not explicitly relevant is pretentious.

"Ah yes, the story of how you crashed your car reminds me of an anecdote I read in the diary of Abraham Lincoln..."
Nobody fucking cares you pretentious little shit.

God I fucking hate you elitist swine.

>> No.10776878

>>10776873
Abraham Linken? Is he like in the bye-boh and stuff?

>> No.10776889

>>10776873
>allusion is pretentious
How do you enjoy literature? Or do you just not read?

>> No.10776890

Tenuous analogy. Franklin observed lightening, you can do a similar thing to your irrationality (analyse it) but if it doesn't reduce its extent and intensity, then how the fuck can it be less worrisome?

It's like saying my phobia of spiders is exactly the but now when I see spiders I am less afraid of them.

>> No.10776896

>>10776873
>"Ah yes, the story of how you crashed your car reminds me of an anecdote I read in the diary of Abraham Lincoln..."
Fuck man that is me. I don't do it on purpose but I spend so much time reading that I'm at a dinner and notice someone isn't drinking alcohol so I will ramble on about Nietzsche's abstinence and how it's probably a sour grapes situation because he couldn't drink anyway so he decided to call people who drank alcohol mental weaklings blah blah blah FUCK I HATE AUTISM

>> No.10776917

I should've deleted this thread when I had the chance. Each and every one of you is acoustic.

>> No.10776920

>>10776858
>not an obscure allusion
Exactly. Completely superfluous and tactless.

>> No.10776931

>>10776920
I don't like the word pretentious, but if you actually believe that obscure allusions are inherently good, then that would be an example of pretention.

I would say the analogy is trite. It serves its purpose, though.

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>>10776931
Do you guys even know where it's from? All of you are pretentious fucking pricks.

>> No.10776986

>>10776950
lmao it's a self-help book

>> No.10776990

>>10776986
Y'all Niggas got played, talking about pretention within the lines of a self help book. KMS yourselves.

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>>10776896
>>10776858
Real intellectuals, like myself, quote without warning.
But if you're going to cite/reference an idea/notion, you do that first, then you say who said/did it.
>I can not mend my own irrationality anymore than Franklin could diminish thunder—yet, like lightning, I now feel less worried by my folly.

>>10776990
>got played
Is immeasurable disbelief now naiveté?

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>>10777038
That's pretty Gay dawg. Every single poster on this board seems to think that their writing abilities far surpass those of an actually accomplished author. Pretty sad, maybe the book that I started this thread is for you.

The Art of Thinking Clearly. The very first chapter delves into "Survivorship Bias". Which you all seem to have.