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12002979 No.12002979 [Reply] [Original]

>be Mario Vargas Llosa
>be Peruvian-born
>be right-wing
>be a good novelist
>be a presidential candidate for Peru in 1990
>lose to some Jap who doesn't even have Native American nor Spanish blood
>become the national laughing stock
>move to Spain
>20 years later in 2010 win the Nobel Prize for Literature
>whoslaughingnow.mp3

>> No.12003002

>>12002979

EL SER UN APÁTRIDA SERVIL ANTE LO EXTRANJERO, E HIPERREACCIONISTA HASTA EL GRADO DE ESTAR PETRIFICADO, NO CONSTITUYE CAUSA DE ORGULLO, NI DE HONOR.

>> No.12003023

>>12003002
>EL SER
Do you even Spanish?

>> No.12003041

>>12003023

DO YOU?

LA LOCUCIÓN "EL SER" SE REFIERE A LA ACCIÓN DE SER; VARIANTES DEL MISMO MODO SERÍAN: "EL JUGAR", "EL CORRER", "EL VER", "EL ESCUCHAR", "EL VIVIR", "EL MORIR", ET CETERA.

>> No.12003053

>>12003041
You namefags are insufferable. And you're using it wrong.

>> No.12003060

>>12003002
It's your only great novelist, though. Without him you wouldn't even be on the map.

>> No.12003133

>>12003053
>You namefags are insufferable.

THERE IS NOTHING INHERENTLY "INSUFFERABLE" REGARDING THE USE OF A NAME, OR A TRIPCODE.

>And you're using it wrong.

NO, I AM NOT MISUSING IT; IT IS A LOCUTION THAT USES THE GERUND MODE OF A VERB; I SUGGEST THAT YOU IMPROVE YOUR COMPREHENSION, AND ACQUAINTANCE, OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE BEFORE ENGAGING IN DISCUSSIONS THAT PERTAIN TO ITS GRAMMAR.

A SIMILAR LOCUTION USING GERUND PHRASING IS PRESENT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE —EXEMPLI GRATIA: "THE PLAYING [OF]", "YOUR MISUNDERSTANDING [OF]", ET CETERA.

>> No.12003150

>>12003060
>It's your only great novelist, though.

1. I AM NOT PERUVIAN.

2. THAT PATHETIC MAN IS NOT "A GREAT NOVELIST".

3. IF YOU THINK THAT THAT PATHETIC MAN IS PERU'S "GREATEST NOVELIST" —OR ITS "ONLY GREAT NOVELIST"—, YOU ARE IGNORANT.

>Without him you wouldn't even be on the map.

IMAGINE BEING THIS IGNORANT AND ILLITERATE...

>> No.12003171

I RECOGNIZE THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN UNNECESSARILY HARSH TOWARD YOU IN MY PREVIOUS POST, THEREFORE, I APOLOGIZE.

>> No.12003193

>>12003150
He may be a shit person, but he's a great novelist. Conversation in The Cathedral is a masterpiece. I bet you haven't even read him yet claim he's pathetic.

>> No.12003195

can someone nuke this thread already?

>> No.12003201

>>12003195
Why?

>> No.12003732

>>12003133
>"I AM NOT INSUFFERABLE," he shouted at great volume