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>book is over 400 pages

>> No.12727524

>text takes up less that half the area of the page

>> No.12727529
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>Book is an account of events which did not actually take place, yet nobody calls the author out

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>chapters are named

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>no illustrations

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>each chapter is called a book
>under each book heading is a quote in latin or greek left untranslated
>each book begins with an argument summarizing the events that take place
>after each argument is a condensed argument composed of two iambic dimeter couplets

>> No.12727567

>>12727557
>>under each book heading is a quote in latin or greek left untranslated
I love when they do this, and trying to translate what it says

>> No.12727580

>>12727567
I'm monolingual but I sound them out anyway since it's part of the book

>> No.12727620

>>12727520

>Book is not written in ancient runes which require a honed quartz seeing stone to read under the light of a post-equinox blood moon.

>> No.12727628

>>12727567
Lacan does this all the fucking time, quotes in Greek and Latin and its always left untranslated >:-(

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>book isn't ergodic
Why would you waste your time on such juvenile pursuits?

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this thread again

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>book takes place over years
>protagonist never takes a dump once

>> No.12728267

>>12728258
This bothered me in Star Trek. 556 hours of show cut up between 7 different series and not one mention of going to the bathroom.

>> No.12728439

>>12728267
Are you suppossed to ask your supervisor to use the bathroom? I've never had a job so idk

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>1300 pages

Is it worth it?

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>>12728439
On my first day of my freshman year of college I raised my hand to ask the professor to go to the bathroom.

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>translators notes take up half the book

>> No.12728501

>>12727520
>reading books not just listening to em

>> No.12728506

μέγα λίβρον μέγα kαkόν!

>> No.12728511

>>12728483
Lmao