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I didn't read a single endnote.

>> No.15475839

what's an endnote

>> No.15475908

>>15475839
The things literal-whos write after the author's narrative has finished. Something that has absolutely no primary relation to the text. Pseud crutches, basically.

>> No.15476280

I read dorian gray recently and the footnotes and endnotes were completely retarded. It put an endnote on San Franciso to tell me Oscar Wilde went there once. I normally always read the endnotes and footnotes but I instantly stopped

>> No.15476296

>see difficult and hard to pronounce name like Razlovkian or whatever the dude in Crime is called
>only read Raz then skip his name whenever his name appears
>hehe nothing personal Dosto

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>>15476296

>> No.15476318

>>15475731
I did once and it sucked. Especially the more moralfag ones.

>> No.15476566

>>15476296
>raskolnikov
>is literally a rascal
>rascal-nikov
He made it as easy as he could for you shitbutt Anglos and you still fail

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>>15476566
>shitbutt Anglos
Yet here you are, using our language.

>> No.15477796

>>15475731
>reads Infinite Jest

>> No.15479086

>>15477796
>a whole chapter is an endnote

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>>15475731
*omits the editor's intro*
*omits the translator's intro*
*omits the preface to the 1st edition*
*omits the preface to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. editions as well*
you didn't expect me to read all this bullshit, right?

>> No.15479541

>smug about missing the filmography

>> No.15479742

>>15477796
Yup that's me.

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>>15477777
>truth
>bateman
>quints

>> No.15479783

>>15479541
This

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>>15477777

>> No.15479838

>>15477777
holy based

>> No.15479867

>>15476296
based retard

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>>15477777
Hello? Yes? I'd like to report a case for the based department

>> No.15479942

>>15476296
>not just reading it like shit the first time and keep prnouncing it the same forever untill you go to class and the teacher pronounces it and then you realize you are iliterate
noob. and this shit applies evn to my native language when they use weird ass medieval names

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>>15475731
>read the introduction
>it's quite extensive
>does not read the actual book
What are they going to do about it?