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>tfw no multi volume Complete Works set of your favorite author

>> No.14249457

I'm pretty sure a complete works collection for joyce would be longer than the bible

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This is your chance to make a business out of this! Just buy a ton of copies, pack 'em together, make a website and sell that shit

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>>14249443

Like ballet without music!

>> No.14249602

>>14249457
how long is the bible? its only like one book?

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>>14249443
>can't even get all of his works translated
>had to learn japanese to finish reading him

>> No.14249845

>>14249703
Nicholas Cage is Japanese?

>> No.14249859

>>14249443
I know what feel OP, wish there was a nice set for Kant

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>>14249443
>Had limited releases.
>Half were never translated from french.
>Hardly any ebooks on pirate sites.

>> No.14250020

>>14249845
>he didnt know

>> No.14250737

ITT monolinguals' designated seething ground
Like a clockwork

>> No.14250742

>>14250012
was this photo taken right before he started casting some spells

>> No.14250837

>>14250012
>limited releases
Based old wizard conserving his male energy.

>> No.14251642

>there's not this for Cicero.
>not even a 1200 page "essentials" collection
Fucking how?

>> No.14251650

>>14249457
But the Bible isn't very long.

>> No.14252096

>>14249443
>Leibniz corpus has gorillonz of pages
>complete works not fully edited 300 years after his death in spite of continuous releases
This is unreal.

>> No.14252200

>>14249443
I find satisfaction in building my own 'complete works' from different edition. Less aesthetically pleasing? Perhaps, but it doesn't flare my tism up too much

>> No.14252209

>>14249457
i have joyce's "complete novels", does that count

>> No.14252210

>>14250012
i think i have everything by him in pdf format

>> No.14252218

>>14249602
>its only one book
Anon...

>> No.14253243

>>14252200
I'm working on just that. Maybe one day I publish them all as a complete works set in a modern typeset.

>> No.14253264

>>14250737
how would speaking two or more languages solve the problem of an author having a fucked bibliography
like if you want everything Raymond Chandler wrote you have to buy a bunch of books that are mostly redundant barring a couple sections

>> No.14253267

>>14252218
enlighten me
every time ive seen a bible it was only one book, i guess technically two if you count the old and new testaments as separate books

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>>14249443
can't relate

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>>14249443
>tfw I have a fully translated annotated translation of the I Ching with commentaries by Jung and Borges
Feels good to be a patrician

>> No.14253799

>>14253267
The Bible is 66 books. It is a library.

>> No.14253804

>>14253267
They were written as a shit ton of books, some bibles contain some books and others don't

>> No.14253807

>>14253799
wtf? how come ive only seen it as one book, never as an encyclopedia taking up two shelves?