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The entire world has been left in ruins, aliens come and try to figure out what the hell happened and only find one book.

Pick one book to represent all of humanity.

>> No.1529945
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The picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.1529947

I'd say for them to fully realize the impact of our destruction they would need to find something that displayed our knowledge of our place in the universe and our drive to learn all that we could.

My vote goes to A Brief History of Time.

>> No.1529956

>>1529947
Sure, I guess they could use a good comedy.

My vote goes for Dorian Grey, too, cuz we're all bad and no one represents humanity better than a sodomist.

>> No.1529964

>>1529956

My friend, I detect a certain amount of rancor in your post. Why do you feel the need to vent so at strangers on the internet?

>> No.1529967

Finnegans wake

I would welcome my demise if I had the knowledge I'll troll the living shit out of some extraterrestrial historians.

>> No.1529972

>>1529956
>Dorian Gray is about a bad somdomist
i don't think you understood it

>> No.1529983

Emerson's Self-Reliance, Over-Soul, and Experience

humanity's unrelenting optimism which when once collapses and shatters, renders us completely lost

>> No.1529987

We should leave some fuckawesome sci-fi book, make the aliens jealous of all our flying cars and robot slaves.

>> No.1530000

90's Batman comics.

>> No.1530008

>>1529972
I don't think you understood his post.

>> No.1530013

>>1530008
You're right, he completely misunderstood me.
Also
>>1530000
Mad quads

>> No.1530014

>>1529956

>better than a sodomist.
>than a sodomist.
>a sodomist.
>sodomist.

I'm going to venture to guess you meant "SODOMITE"?

>> No.1530020

>>1530014
pretentious scum

everyone is familiar with the term, you know what he meant

>> No.1530029

>>1530020
>"pretentious scum"
>hey, kettle, my name is pot.

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>>1530029
>>1530029
taking anything i say seriously

>> No.1530054

>>1530042

>mfw this is the internet & nothing is to be taken seriously, yet you are an Oscar Wilde cosplayer

>> No.1530062
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>>1530054
>cosplayer
wut

>> No.1530076

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

>> No.1530081

>>1530054

it's ok, Anon, it has been universally concluded that Fabulous is the worst tripfaggot on /lit/, bar none.

>> No.1530089

enders game

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>>1530062

YOU HEARD ME, DWEEB.

>yfw I called you out

>> No.1530114

>>1530081
No actually, that would be Courage Wolf !Penis!iaMaWorthLeSsFaGGot

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>>1530102
>tumblr
get the fuck out

>> No.1530121
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The King James Bible

>> No.1530133

>ctrl + f atlas shrugged
>no results

Am I on /lit/?

>> No.1530135

>>1530133
0/10

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>> No.1530179 [DELETED] 

Encyclopedia Britannica
or
The Ass Vagina of Lucifer Niggerbastard

>> No.1530185

A dictionary?

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i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of seagulls
Will i complete the mystery
of my flesh
I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon


... I always thought Cummings had also written Lensman... Wouldn't that have been funny?

>> No.1530202

Collected Poems of Walt Whitman

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Maybe they'll assume it was a history.

>> No.1530231

>>1530202
That's called "Leaves of Grass."

>> No.1530254

INFINITE JEST motherfuckerrrr

>> No.1530269

1984.

>> No.1530293

>>1530231
i meant things not included in leaves of grass too.

>> No.1530310

The Bible.

Failing that, the entire Discworld series.

Failing THAT, Catcher in the Rye.

>> No.1530326

Wikipedia

>> No.1530333

>>1530117
>doesn't know how to post images without saving them

>> No.1530342

>>1530310
If that Bible suggestion wasn't a troll, the rest of your suggestions makes me wonder how anyone could seriously suggest the Bible and follow it up with the Discworld series or Catcher in the Rye.

>> No.1530343

>>1530326
I like how you think, anon. An Encyclopedia would be more practical, however, because Wikepedia isn't much of a book.

>> No.1530339

TH3 VOYN1CH M4NUSCR1PT

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>>1530339
Oh, hell yes. This is my favorite suggestion so far.

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>>1530352
>Just read the wiki
"n 2009, University of Arizona researchers performed C14 dating on the manuscript's vellum, which they assert (with 95% confidence) was made between 1404 and 1438.[2] In addition, the McCrone Research Institute in Chicago found that much of the ink was added not long afterwards, confirming that the manuscript is indeed an authentic medieval document.

WHAT THE F-!?
It was /lit/ that told me it was a proven hoax!
(I'll never trust you people again! hahah)

>> No.1530395

>>1530388
I don't know what idiot told you that, but the evidence for it being a hoax is very small compared with the evidence that it's authentic.

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>>1530395

>> No.1530442

>>1530428
Yes, I've seen that. A viable explanation. I tend to think it's some sort of coded alchemical guide, but to each his own.

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Yeah let's just fuck with the Aliens. Let's attach to the Voynich Manuscript the Codex Seraphinianus.

By the way the Voynich manuscript is really fucking creepy. If /lit/ could miraculously decipher it, then it would become the greatest literature board ever in the whole wide world.

>> No.1530455

History's greatest troll. It's probably a medieval guide to pedophilia.

>> No.1530457

>>1530455
Well, I was meant to refer to this.
>>1530446

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>>1530446
And splice it with some Codex Gigas

>> No.1530464

>>1530446
1 DONT KNOW 1F 1T C4N B3 D3C1PH3R3D

1 M34N JUST LOOK 4T TH4T P4G3

TH3 WORD TH4T LOOKS L1K3
>4olfe8g
4PP34RS OV3R 4ND OV3R TO TH3 PO1NT TH4T 1T 4PP34RS NONS3NS1C4L 3V3N 1F 1T W4S 4 WORD L1K3 TH3

3V3N ON TH3 S4M3 L1N3 M4NY WORDS LOOK TH3 S4M3

>> No.1530472

I wonder if /lit/ could come together and create its very own indecipherable, esoteric, and mysterious text. Not silly shit like The Penis Was or whatever, but something with some ominous magnitude to it. You think we could do it?

>> No.1530479

>>1530464
>4PP34RS OV3R 4ND OV3R
Stopped reading there

/lit/ is not the board for you.

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>>1530464
Have you never seen Arabic writing, it looks very similar from afar, but close up it's easily decipherable.

>> No.1530487

>>1530472
Maybe, but we'd have to do it in secrecy, and clearly using analogue mediums.

>> No.1530492

>>1530472
I've done it numerous times. This is really one to something -> >>1530428


The authors probably didn't know who to spell in the language they were dealing with, maybe even translating from older materials that were too damaged to read/decipher. Probably a lot of reasons went into its garbled mess.

>> No.1530499

>>1530492
>This one is really on to something -> >>1530428
Frkn frpn nrrrrg

>> No.1530503

>>1530487
Was that a hint to visit this website?

http://blog.analogmedium.com/

>> No.1530508

We would have to create our own cipher and make it as impossible as ever. Sounds like a fun challenge.

>> No.1530513

>>1530482
TH4TS NOT R34LLY WH4T 1 M34NT

1 M34NT TH4T 1F TH3 V4R1OUS R3P34T3D GROUP1NGS W3R3 S1NGL3 WORDS 1T WOULD TR4NSL4T3 1NTO 4 M3SS OF TH3 S4M3 WORDS

1 1M4G1N3 TH1S 1S D3L1BR4T3 4S TH3R3 S33MS TO H4V3 B33N 4 LOT OF WORK PUT 1NTO TH1S 4ND 4NY M3SS4G3 1S SO OBSCUR3D TH4T 1T S33MS UNL1K3LY TO B3 UNCOV3R3D

>> No.1530517

>>1530472
I have a personal project I'm working on in this vein, but nothing's so done I would show /lit/. I wouldn't mind letting you guys take a crack at trying to break my cipher when it's done, if you're interested.

>> No.1530526

>>1530517
Let us know when it's done.

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The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.
(Yep. That's the title)

>> No.1531967

>>1530535
Thiiiiiiiiis!

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http://www.good.is/post/wikipedia-in-impossibly-unwieldy-book-form/

Ha. I win OP.

>> No.1532131

Notes from the Underground

Because if there's anything that represents humanity, it is a bitter, lonely man gibbering to himself about this horrible cage his affluence has made.

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>>1532147

>two sides
>same coin

>> No.1532169

Of Human Bondage

it's about the struggles of youth that inevitably repeat themselves with every generation: the attempts to be different, facing a world of economic limitations and relationships, having to change what you want, eventually form your own family. It does paint it in a positive life saying the traditional family lifestyle can often be the best.

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>Aliens enter in a bookstore
>see this

>> No.1532201

Encyclopedia.

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Humanities one and only truth.

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