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How retarded does Norton Critical Editions expect the general reader to be. Who the fuck reads Conrad yet wouldn't know what "by Jove" means?

>> No.15357702

>>15357648
shut the fuck up autist. its well known but there will still be esl from rich chinese japanese arab etc families picking up these books.

>> No.15357711

>>15357648
Fuck you retarded op

>> No.15357777

>>15357702
>>15357711
ESLfags I hope
You are the reason why this board is so dumbed down.

>> No.15357779

>>15357777
quads of truth

>> No.15358639

>>15357648
Dude, I was in a first year lit class and half the retards in it didn’t know what the fucking Garden of Eden was. The Prof looked like he was going to have a stroke.

>> No.15359397

>>15358639
Kek, the state of education

>> No.15359419

>>15357648
high school kids

>> No.15359465

>>15359397
When I was in high-school there was no reading list of anything.
All they did was hand out worksheets everyday about sentence structure/spelling/definitions that people filled out and everyone passed.

No child left behind!

>> No.15360824

>>15359397
nah it's the state of liberal/left-wing atheism

>> No.15360936

>>15360824
based and redpilled

>> No.15361147

>>15357648
To be completely honest, I for one prefer overabundant annotations. Even at the cost of the most annotations being useless to me.

>> No.15361367

>>15361147
Seconded.
>>15357648
At one point YOU didn't know either. It's a balancing act and I too frequently wonder why some things merit annotations while others do not.

>> No.15361565

at least there are footnotes and note endnotes

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>>15357648
Even aspiring writers, apparently, are retarded.

>> No.15363058

>>15362940
Source? And what's wrong with dystopias?

>> No.15363067

>>15363058
It's a second hand book. I'm making the assumption that the annotation drawn in is because whoever had it before me didn't know what dystopia meant.

>> No.15363079

>>15357648
i thought jove was his wife's name.

>> No.15363109

>>15357777
Fuggin based b

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>>15363079
That's Juno (Hera in Greek)

>> No.15363181

>>15363058
Previous owner is wondering why dystopias are in the what ifs section

>> No.15363186

>>15362940
It would make sense to write a short definition next to an unfamiliar word, but why draw a question mark and nothing else? To remind yourself that you don't know what the word means?

>> No.15364425

>>15363067
>>15363181
Oh, makes sense.
But what book is it?

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>>15364425

>> No.15365004

>>15361147
this

>> No.15365024

>>15357648
Dude, Norton published Emily Wilson's """"translation""""" of the Odyssey. They are a shitty meme now.

>> No.15365093

What book should I get as a Norton Critical Edition?

>> No.15365118

>Who the fuck reads Conrad yet wouldn't know what "by Jove" means?
You'd be surprised, anon. Public education has been on a downward trajectory for the past 60 years.

>> No.15365123

>>15362940
Does the cutoff part at the bottom say have sex?

>> No.15365149

>>15365123
The full line is
>have, sex and incels

>> No.15365154

>>15365093
Any desu. What I like the most about them is the contemporary reviews on the back of the book. They usually have half of them that shit talk the work and the other half praising it. Lots of keks to be had.

This one is from a 18th ce frog aristocrat
>The author is wrong to have had Mademoiselle de Chartres blush when she saw Monsieur de Clèves...Why would a girl blush at the sight of a man who looks at her modestly and doesn't say a word to her?This makes her look like a naive provincial who isn't used to seeing people of quality.

>> No.15365176

>>15365093
moby-dick

>> No.15365185

>>15365154
>Any desu.
No. Anything but their Odyssey.

>> No.15365195

>>15365154
>What I like the most about them is the contemporary reviews on the back of the book. They usually have half of them that shit talk the work and the other half praising it. Lots of keks to be had.

the reviews are dumb fodder, they have good footnotes, font, and binding

who give's a shit if virginia woolf wrote an essay on the work youre reading

>> No.15365208

>>15365195
Who said anything about Woolf? And the reviews are hilarious, especially when they are doing an autistic take down on plot, characters, themes, etc. Have a toke and chill bro.

>> No.15365269

>>15365208
no one did, but it's the type of useless filler you find in those lame essays at the back of norton editions

the quote you posted was dumb and not even funny

>> No.15365288

>>15365195
>who give's a shit if virginia woolf wrote an essay on the work youre reading
she did? thats pretty cool.

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>>15365269
>MUH FOOTNOTES
imagine being this autistic and angry

>> No.15365316

>>15357648
I had no idea what it meant. Thanks for posting!