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1300159 No.1300159 [Reply] [Original]

So The world is going to burn all the books (ereaders and internet included).

1. If you had to commit a work of literature to memory what would it be?

2.If you could only save one book what would it be?

3. And if you could save one line what would it be?

>> No.1300165

In this context it would be Fahrenheit 451 so I could tell people how ironic it is that the exact plot of this book is happening.

>> No.1300171

>>1300165
god you are such a faggot

>> No.1300164

1. Harvard Great Book Anthology

2. Diamond Sutra

3. OP is a faggot.

>> No.1300180

>>1300165

...how is that ironic?

>> No.1300181

>>1300171
I thought it was quite a funny remark, you're the faggot for being so narrow minded and dull.

>> No.1300185

1) some epic from an oral tradition, i think the iliad. It seems fitting.
2) Brothers Karamazov
3)He said that everything there was to know about life is in "The Brothers Karamazov," by Fyodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough anymore," said Rosewater.

>> No.1300191

>>1300181
>>1300171
you two should get a sitcom

>> No.1300199

1) The Dictionary
2) Dune
3) 'If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe'

>> No.1300202

Additional question:

4. If you could personally throw one book on the fire, what would it be? Bonus points for something other than Twilight, Atlas Shrugged, Harry Potter, and Dan Brown.

>> No.1300203

1) The Odyssey

2) Some massive text book on, I don't know, medicine or history or something.

3) I wouldn't bother. Any single line saved out of context would be as good as any line that I could just create on my own after the burning.

>> No.1300208

1. Ulysses
2. The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway
3. It is only the intellectually lost who never argue.
4. Fight Club

>> No.1300210

Did you just say that the world is going to burn the internet?

Really?

>> No.1300213

1. Infinite Jest (haters gonna hate)
2. Complete works of Shakespeare
3. "You had an arse full of farts that night, and I fucked them all out of you"
4. Catcher in the Rye

>> No.1300216

Fuck memorizing an epic, that's a lot of work.

1) Cat in the Hat
2) The Brothers Karamazov
3) "Veni, Vidi, Vici"

>> No.1300232

1. Something long as fuck
2. Something long as fuck
3. Er aber, sag's ihm, er kann mich im Arsche lecken

>> No.1300237

The Bible

>> No.1301341

1. The Ecclesiast
2. The Ecclesiast
3.
>Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

>> No.1301348

1. The Silmarillion

2. The Silmarillion

3. Illuvitar herpy derp derp, and he was glad.no

>> No.1301356

>3. "You had an arse full of farts that night, and I fucked them all out of you"

WELLP, THREAD'S OVER. THAT'S A WRAP.

>> No.1301372

the bible. whether we hate on it, or love, its our history, our culture, our heritage.

>> No.1301403

go ahead and burn them all! reality existed b4 books and will continue to exist after them

>> No.1302082

>>1301403
>b4
Clearly you are on the wrong board.
You should also know that you are mistaken; reality existed before written language did, but as soon as written language was created books were as well. In the event that even if all books did burn, literature would continue to live on in it's absence. Can you imagine how stupid the world would be if books no longer existed?

In answer to your questions, I'd probably memorize an early history book of some sort and save a calculus book. As much as I'd like to save books for my own personal gain, I believe the world needs to be taught and that precedes my own wants.

>> No.1302105

>>1301372
This, and for the same reason.

>> No.1302111

it's good to see that there are people in /lit/ who can appreciate the bible as a work of literature, whether they believe in it or not