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>this book is dedicated to you, the reader

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>I hope you enjoyed reading this, as much as I have enjoyed writing it

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>Here lies the reader
>who will never open this book.
>He is here forever dead.

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>Fuck you, reader.

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>this book is dedicated to you, the frogposter

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>>14901224

>> No.14902241

>>14901224
I've never understood how dedicating a book works. What the fuck does it mean? Normally, if you dedicate something to someone, you give (literally or symbolically) that something to someone. If that's the case, aren't most books implicitly dedicated to the anonymous reader? Then why the "dedicated to me mum xoxo" shit?
I have aspergers btw

>> No.14902258

>>14902241
Nerd wtf kys desu

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>>14901224
name one book that literally does this

>> No.14902366

>>14902241
>aren't most books implicitly dedicated to the anonymous reader? Then why the "dedicated to me mum xoxo" shit?


you can do both

>> No.14902369

>>14902365
Baudelaire and Montaigne.

>> No.14902371

>>14902365
The Bible

>> No.14903014

>>14902241

It's just a human touch, where the author self-inserts just before the work proper begins, and gives us an historical clue as to who they care about. Early-modern-to-modern European thinkers who prepared non-fiction works, or scientific works, would commonly do dedications to their patrons

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>the book is dedicated to voices in your head

>> No.14903930

>>14902188
incredibly based

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>For Juliet
>Look up who Juliet was
>It was the authors dead infant daughter

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>this book is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen warriors of Afghanistan

>> No.14904127

>>14902241
>I have aspergers btw
Out of curiosity, what makes you choose to keep living?

>> No.14904132

>>14903984
Literally happened to me today with Peter Mandler's the Fall and Rise of the Country House

>> No.14904225

>>14902365
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

>> No.14904236

>>14904005
Who could have seen that one coming