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1390339 No.1390339 [Reply] [Original]

In Soviet Ireland, book reads you.

Who here's read this all the way through?

>> No.1390350

I'm probably the only person on this board who understands it.

>> No.1390359

I heard it's about girls, rock 'n roll and the decline of the Western World?

>> No.1390362

>>1390350
Wow that's fucking presumptuous.

>> No.1390369

>>1390350
>>1390362
Also full of shit. Even amongst the educated community the general consensus is that the work has no meaning. It is a long stream of references strung together loosely and ultimately just a work of linguisitic exploration rather than depth of prose.

>> No.1390371

>>1390362

Sarcasm detector?

>> No.1390375

>>1390371
This is /lit/ sir. Do you doubt our ability to be presumptuous asses?

>> No.1390377

>>1390369
>has not read any criticism of the book whatsoever

>> No.1390380

>>1390375

It is impossible to distinguish between foolishness and a parody of it.

Or however the fuck that saying goes.

>> No.1390495

bump