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Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:37:19 2013 No.3377121 [Reply] [Original]

>Find out Napoleon wrote a novel.
>"Clisson and Eugenie."
>Start reading it.
>mfw.

How can one of the greatest military leaders spew out badly written chick-lit romance?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:40:20 2013 No.3377129 >>3377121 Well. That might just explain everything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:43:19 2013 No.3377135 >>3377121 What's it about? Past the genere.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:44:19 2013 No.3377137 He was small.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:49:19 2013 No.3377142 File: 249 KB, 592x876, Nap.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377135 Here's a random excerpt. It just makes me cringe to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:51:19 2013 No.3377144 >>3377142 He was like the Stephanie Meyer of his time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:00:19 2013 No.3377155 >>3377121 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMVOzPPtiw

>>	demiurge Sun Jan 20 07:01:19 2013 No.3377156 why would you think a good general would make for a good writer

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:02:19 2013 No.3377158 He had subject ghost-write it, probably. One sentimental propaganda piece to seduce the masses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:04:20 2013 No.3377159 >why don't all people write pseudo intellectual garbage that deconstructs entires literary genres or rivalize moral codes like if it was something new and exciting in order to vouch for hedonism

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:06:20 2013 No.3377162 >>3377159 >i am an angry child

>>	sage sage Sun Jan 20 07:07:20 2013 No.3377165 >>3377158 The thing about tall egos is that it works both ways, he might have written it himself do to it being his name and none other would be good enough. You could say the same thing about Hitler.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:07:20 2013 No.3377164 >>3377159 Don't insult Nappy he's my idol I'm a Nietzschean

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:11:19 2013 No.3377172 Who would have thought that commanding an army and writing fiction would involve very different skills?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:14:19 2013 No.3377173 File: 10 KB, 520x90, geniuses.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:17:19 2013 No.3377176 Everyone knows that the only great leader who could also write a good novel was Disraeli.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:17:19 2013 No.3377177 >>3377165 Napoleon wrote that in his early 20's before becoming a military leader. He believed that he was destined to be great, but was threatening suicide because he hadn't achieved anything yet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:48:19 2013 No.3377218 >>3377176 lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 08:08:20 2013 No.3377235 Mao wrote a pretty popular one

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 08:26:19 2013 No.3377255 Could it be that it's better in french?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 08:35:19 2013 No.3377270 Disraeli wrote a great novel. Probably the first Goth (as opposed to Gothic) novel ever.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 08:56:19 2013 No.3377295 >>3377156 because he could write about cool things like war and stuff, even if it's a crap book

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:05:19 2013 No.3377302 >>3377270 Well, gonna recommend something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:12:19 2013 No.3377316 Who the fuck cares about him, he was a butcher.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:15:19 2013 No.3377322 >>3377316 >Not liking greatest French in history

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:17:19 2013 No.3377333 >>3377302 "Sybil" by Benjamin Disraeli

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:19:19 2013 No.3377335 >>3377121 cuz you can't have great stats in all traits

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:21:19 2013 No.3377342 File: 5 KB, 256x273, Descartes[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377322

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:22:19 2013 No.3377347 >>3377342 Sorry, I don't have a dick.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:24:19 2013 No.3377352 File: 200 KB, 920x920, mosaicab26b92073238b5d8c896434bba7b4e58f9c3dcd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377322 >Napoleon >greatest French in history A thousand faces when

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:27:20 2013 No.3377361 >>3377347 Who the fuck asked you that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:35:19 2013 No.3377377 >>3377361 he's from reddit or something, they have a meme with descartes face

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:38:19 2013 No.3377381 File: 9 KB, 141x140, Dick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377377 >Implying you don't know what four words my face represents. My witty slogan is more well known than my philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:42:19 2013 No.3377388 >>3377381 #Daykart #GHTD

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:46:19 2013 No.3377393 File: 72 KB, 640x460, Zidane.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377352 I know man It's clearly Zidane

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:46:19 2013 No.3377394 >>3377352 >Rimbaud Le teenager face

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:51:20 2013 No.3377406 On a completely tangential note, I'm amazed to find out that Napoleon isn't regarded as a dictator but rather as an emperor? How so? And where did I get this notion from?

>>	sage sage Sun Jan 20 09:54:20 2013 No.3377412 >>3377352 Why did you put Nicholas Cage in the bottom right? And why did you photoshop mustache unto his face?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 10:00:19 2013 No.3377424 >>3377406 great men historiography it's only within the last century that we've come to accept that war isn't The Coolest Thing Ever c.f Cesar, he genocided the gauls, but he's a Great Man

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 10:01:20 2013 No.3377430 >>3377406 That's because he was an emperor.

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