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If you could cause one book to disappear from existence completely, which would you choose? Every copy would be gone and everyone's memory of it, including your own, would be erased.

I would choose Moby Dick.

>> No.11539873

>>11539868
Plato: The collected works

>> No.11539880

>>11539868
The complete works of Shakespeare

>> No.11539883

The Holy Bible :^)

>> No.11539885

>>11539868
Bible

>> No.11539890

>>11539868
The Diary of Anne Frank

>> No.11539923

my diary desu

>> No.11539928

Harry Potter.

>> No.11539931

>>11539868
Toss up between MK and CofC.

>> No.11539932

>>11539873
This is the only correct answer

>> No.11539945

>>11539868
The Quran, just to watch the confusion of the whole Middle East.

>> No.11539950

>>11539868
>moby dick
>would lose the second mastodon album
Oh hell no.

I'd pick Frankenstein.

>> No.11539952

Wait would this include dead people too? If I erased the Republic would there still be commentaries on the Republic? What about the works it influenced? If an author mentioned the Republic would that passage just be erased?

>> No.11539954
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>>11539868
But Moby Dick is a whale of a ride

>> No.11539984

culture of critique

>> No.11539993

>>11539984
Third

>> No.11539999

>>11539868
Anne Frank's Diary

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>>11539984
>>11539993
>>11539931
I see the shills are out in full force today. Refute CofC. Protip: you cant.

>> No.11540009

>>11539952
Any works that quote it, review it, adapt it, or directly reference it are also erase. If a work is just derivative of it, it stays.

>> No.11540035

>>11540003
>Protip: you cant.
wtf i never asked to be redpilled like this.

>> No.11540074

>>11539873
This, but only because it would be fascinating to see how the course of civilization changes

Also the bible for that reason

>> No.11540078

>>11539868
commie manifesto

>> No.11540125

quran

>> No.11540131

>>11539883
>>11539885
>>11540074
not picking the new testament, baka anons

>> No.11541194

>>11540125
Seconding this.

>> No.11541223

Talmud

>> No.11541277

Can I just erase Kant?

>> No.11541303

>>11540003
Given that its concerns in the great melting pot of the United States of America are completely bogus, who cares to? It's bogus 'intellectual' twaddle for race paranoid brainlets. Read actual literature, instead.

>> No.11541317

>>11539868

Discourse on the Method by Descartes.

>> No.11541334

>>11539868
I pick À la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.11541336

the bible

>> No.11541339
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women

>> No.11541344

Quran

>> No.11541355

Prince Caspian

>> No.11541378

>>11539950
Excellent taste in music, anon.

I'd probably have to go with the New Testament as >>11540131 said.

>> No.11541383

>>11541378
Plebs.

>> No.11541395

>>11541355
Odd choice, but unlike so many I too found Reepacheep obnoxious. My least liked of those books. Good Phish song, though.

>> No.11541400

>>11541395
It actually is a good Phish song. Their only one.

>> No.11541766

>>11541383
Elaborate.

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all of em