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Pnin, please? Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:04:10 2018 No.11717654 [Reply] [Original]

I want to read Pnin, but is there any point to it? What does it say? Cheers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:04:36 2018 No.11717658 >>11717654 What I mean is, what is its message? What is to be gained, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:14:35 2018 No.11717700 >>11717654 >reading fiction for its "message" and not for aesthetic reasons kys

Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:14:55 2018 No.11717704
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>>11717654
>>11717658
>but is there any point to it?
there's words on a page
>What does it say?
>what is its message?
the words that are printed in the book
>What is to be gained
reading

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:15:43 2018 No.11717713 >>11717700 >thinking there's any distinction between the two ah, a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:17:08 2018 No.11717724 >>11717713 there is, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:48:45 2018 No.11717873 >>11717654 It’s prose porn in the best possible way. If you’re looking for a ”point” to it then I’m not sure you’d enjoy it. It’s pretty funny.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:49:16 2018 No.11717877 >>11717724 only in the mind of the plebeian

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 10:58:23 2018 No.11717926 >>11717877 style and morale are the same in your view?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 11:02:37 2018 No.11717944 >>11717654 >>11717658 Is this what high school does to your brain if you stay in it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 11:46:54 2018 No.11718155 You all mistake me. I'm perfectly fine with prose for prose's sake, but I also like there to be an underlying message, something I can get out of a story. If Pnin is just wordplay all the way through, then meh...

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 11:52:01 2018 No.11718177 >>11718155 Self-help books might be the thing you're looking for.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 11:55:22 2018 No.11718196 Nabokov seeked the triumph of aesthetics over hidden meanings or esotericism. His books are supposed to be ends in themselves

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 12:06:14 2018 No.11718246 Skip Nabokov entirely, go back to Aesopus

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 12:30:33 2018 No.11718350 >>11718155 get off my board please

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 12:54:33 2018 No.11718448 >>11718155 bait

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 1 13:04:17 2018 No.11718501 >>11717926 What a pseudy way of asking that question.

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