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>in the end Sam, I finally realized I was the Lord of the Rings.

are you fucking kidding me?

>> No.19601328
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19601328

And "people" call him the greatest fantasist of all time. What a hack.

>> No.19601331

>>19601323
He didn’t say that

>> No.19601335

>>19601323
He literally never said that.

>> No.19601337
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>>19601323

>> No.19601343

What’s the issue? That’s where he got the title

>> No.19601347
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>> No.19601417

>>19601323
That's peak literally kino. Sorry you're too "cool" to appreciate a genre defining classic.

>> No.19601477

>>19601335
>>19601331
newfags

>> No.19601484

Imagine thinking up a title to literally never mention it once in your book.

>> No.19601926

>>19601323
sam clapping those cheeks
he kno all bout frodos rings

>> No.19601991

is dead you know? in the end

>> No.19602020

>and maybe the real Blood Meridian, or: the evening redness in the west was the friends we made along the way.

Bravo McCarthy

>> No.19602168

Let me try, let me try

>In the end we have to follow this teachings because those spoke Zarathustra.

Good job Neet tschy

>> No.19602182
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>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

Wtf David Foster Wallace is actually based

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These threads aren't what they used to be

>> No.19602303

>>19602292
/lit/ itself has seen a sharp decline lately.
I've been fagging around here since the beginning and there have been highs and lows, but lately it feels like the board has been flooded with bots and particularly dense zoomers. Sad.

>> No.19602322

>>19602292
>>19602303
I'm travelling but when I'm home tonight I'll make a good poetry thread and try to get discussion going

>> No.19602325

>>19601323
Frodo never says that. "The Lord of the Rings" as a title is only ever used to refer to Sauron.

>> No.19602368

>>19602325
liar

>In the end, we truly are a Fellowship of The Ring.

>> No.19602525

>>19602303
The issue is Euros. There's some finnish idiot who's always been here who makes these threads as a cope because his country is an impotent cuck country waiting to be reabsorbed into russia

>> No.19602533

>>19601335
your mom never said that she have sexual intercourse with me, yet here she is kneeling in front of my dicque

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>>19601337
>woman
>having an opinion

>> No.19602555
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>fucking Turkish cunt fucked my kebab order up and there were a bunch of fucking Poles ‘angling round the paki shop. Its a fucking wealth of nations out there.
Really Adam Smith?

>> No.19602583

>Her breasts make my penis rise. My hopes rise. The sun also rises.
Fucccck you Hemingway

>> No.19602616

>>19601323
Congratz you leveled up.

>> No.19602710

>>19601323
>My lord Aragorn, reports are coming from the far west that the Haradrim have crashed flying machines into The Two Towers and the orcs are dancing at the news

he was truly ahead of his time

>> No.19602717

>>19601484
Pippin calls Frodo 'the lord of the ring' at Rivendell and Gandalf tells him off for it

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>A man on the Underground. I guess one could call him the Underground Man.
Really dosto?

>> No.19602752

Cringe thread

>> No.19602775
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>I've always had a strong distaste for the Greeks, never once starting with them. I've especially hated the works of Sophocles, so much so that I consider it my life's mission to burn every copy of Oedipus Rex. You might even call me an Anti-Oedipus.

>> No.19602782

>>19601323
>itt newfaggots

>> No.19602815

>>19601477
The irony in this is that you're the newfag. Fuck off
Also check these dubs

>> No.19602822
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>Hume shattered my youthful belief in the uncritical dogmas of the Cartesians, according to which pure reason, unaided by the senses, could afford certain knowledge of certain metaphysical postulates. Thus I set out to write this volume, a Critique of Pure Reason.

>> No.19602845

>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49
God damn it, once again ive been pynched

>> No.19602969

'I have come,' he said. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam's sight.

>> No.19603008

>>19601323
>Thanks a lot, for sticking around -
>you've finished The Cantos™ by Ezra Pound!

I understand it is considered a masterpiece of modernist poetry, but I still found this particularly jarring.

>> No.19603032

>>19603008
Kek

>> No.19603055

>>19601328
*fanatisicst
Haven’t you ever learned to spell, amerimutt

>> No.19603064
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>In the end, this journey was truly an Odyssey
Do Greekoids really?

>> No.19603065

>>19602710
Kek

>> No.19603113

>Do you want to lose THE TRIAL?
>Even if he has no influence on the outcome of THE TRIAL,he probably has some on the initial examination.
>Now that THE TRIAL is already underway, it makes it very difficult
>That did nothing to diminish his openness
about THE TRIAL
>Maybe K.’s uncle had already told the lawyer about THE TRIAL
>He was no longer able to get the thought of THE TRIAL out of his head
>But K. should not forget that THE TRIALl would not be public
>That is the only way the progress of THE TRIAL can be influenced

And the list goes on and on. Kafka is such a hack.

>> No.19603127

>>19603113
Don’t even get me started on The Castle

>> No.19603133

>>19602775
>>19602822
Lmao

>> No.19603199

>>19602555
This was kek lol

>> No.19603206

>>19602583
>>Her breasts make my penis rise.
Literally no it didn't. That was the point of the book

>> No.19603377

>>19603055
lol

>> No.19604277

>In the end, Ralph, I finally realized I was the Lord of the Flies.

>> No.19604362

I bet there's a subreddit for this meme.

>> No.19604477

>"What are you reading Darl?
>"As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner."
stopped reading there

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>>19601323
>My Lord Aragon comes to Gondor! At last it is time for the return of the king!

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>>19604542
GONDOR HAS NO KING!!!

>> No.19605138

>"Well, Myra", Ignatius huffed as he downed another can of Dr. Nut, "I suppose we really do live in a Confederacy of Dunces"

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>In the end, Paul Owen finally realized I was the American Psycho.

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>After all the regret I finally understood that I was a Justified Sinner.

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>"why did you kill her"
>"they shoot horses, don't they?"
impactful...

>> No.19605342

>>19602368
I remember this from the comics.

>> No.19605345

>after all these years Edith, I must confess you were right: I truly am a Stoner

>> No.19605767

>>19601347
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CT4NqH6jWQ

>> No.19605804

>>19601337
Clever, but crime and punishment is actually really good

>> No.19605828

>>19601323
Kek

>> No.19605847

>>19602815
embarrassing

>> No.19605869

>>19605274
Based using the correct name pilled

>> No.19605883
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>Why do all these suits of armor possess human names, Sancho?
>I have heard that it is after a custom in Seville, my lord. Or was it a custard? Either way, this one is Milo, and this is Adosinda, and here... well there's a picture of yourself pasted on the cuirass here, sir. I believe it is named after you. This is a hall of famed knights of old, yet my master has made it in by the grace of some unseen hand!
>I disdain such auspicious circumstances as the work of an enchanter. Nonetheless, I've never read of any knight who went to tournament clothed in his baptismal attire, and shielded by my faith, it will be for courtesy that I Don Quixote.

speechless
>

>> No.19605908

>>19605274
>>19605869
why did they change his surname for the film

>> No.19606076

>After Gregor's death, his family realized they've been through a Metamorphosis.

Bravo, Kafka!