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2199476 No.2199476 [Reply] [Original]

>you'll never read that one book you always dreamed of reading

>> No.2199480

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

>> No.2199481

That's what it feels like to be an american?
Like, wanting to be smart but too lazy to do anything abou it?

>> No.2199479

Which book is this?

>> No.2199483

>>2199479

That one book depends on the person.
It doesn't exist for everyone, it may not have been written yet...

But chances are you will never read that one book that synchronizes with your tastes more than any other book and changes your life forever

>> No.2199503
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2199503

$350 for the whole thing
;_;
can't find any epubs
;_;

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>>2199483
I don't care to synch with books as much as people.

Blind, on my deathbed, I think I'd sooner ask someone to read an old favourite to me.

>> No.2199510

>>2199507

you do care, you do care

but you live in denial

>> No.2199513

>>2199510
I prefer to call it prioritizing.

>> No.2199514

>>2199513

that doesn't mean you don't care...

>> No.2199538

I dreamt a perfect day once: reading quietly while another read quietly nearby.

>> No.2199542

>>2199483
Everything changes your life forever.

>> No.2199668

>>2199542

>Derp taking figurative language literally

>> No.2199674
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2199674

What's with all this teen angst?
The one book that is just perfect for you but you won't find it within all the millions of other books, the one person that is just perfect for you, the one movie, the one sunset, the one house, blablabla.
Jesus. Go kill yourself already, you get broken by something stupid as life, I laugh at you.

>> No.2199676

>>2199674

mad cuz you'll never find that perfect someone or read that perfect book

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>>2199676
no no, it wasn't a mad laugh, y'know, not like "muahahaha, it's ALIIIIVE!", more like a Nelson Muntz laugh, but without his character's background of the troubled inner self. I'm old, buddy, I've seen shit and stuff. You care too much, so either you're a confused youth or a woman. Or a young woman. So: Tits or gtfo, kthxbai.

>> No.2199712

>>2199676
Perfection doesn't exist in reality.

>> No.2199722

I've already found that one book... I've also found that one film and that one band. So it's not impossible to find these things.
If you try to keep your taste eclectic and invest a lot of time into art you're bound to strike gold eventually.

>> No.2199727

>searching for that one book instead of that one girl

>> No.2199729

>>2199481

>That's what it feels like to be an american?
>Like, wanting to be smart but too lazy to do anything abou it?

Is that what it feels like to be a non-American?
Like, wanting to matter but being too lazy to immigrate?

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2199742

Seek no further.

>> No.2199744

Joke is on you, found it after two years of searching last week.

>> No.2199831

Remember that book Nabokov mentions in Invitation to a Beheading, which describes like a thousand year history told from the perspective of an oak tree?

I wish it was real ;_;