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13228367 No.13228367 [Reply] [Original]

Do you ever get a little sad when you read an old book, knowing that the author has been dead for many years? Almost like you are getting to know them personally through their writing

>> No.13228373

>>13228367
I do fren :(

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13228385

yes fren

>> No.13228388

Lit is a kind of immortality.

>> No.13228392

Nah, cuz life is rly hard I like to think they are in a lot better place, mocking us and taking pity on us since we are still stuck here reading their works under the weight of mortal coil they're nowadays free of.

>> No.13228634

No, I get sad when I read an old book because it hilights the absolute shitshow that is 2019. Read Trollope and every single line I’m like “welp, couldn’t say that today,” “wow gender binary assumed”, “where’s all the trannies?”, “so many white people.”

Experiencing the relative sanity of the nineteenth century— itself a pretty progressive time— is bittersweet, well mostly bitter.