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>tfw you will never read The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls

>> No.3984291

>not smuggling Rain Main into the Princeton Library, where he'll memorize the manuscript and dictate it out to you a few days later

why has no one done this

>> No.3984294

Ex-Princeton fag here.

Read it in my creative writing class, had the choice to either write on F+Z, For Esme, or OFOBB. Chose the latter, read it in college library (tight as hell security though)

>> No.3984300

I'll most likely be alive in 2060.

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lit feels general?

>tfw no qt gf who enjoys DFW

>> No.3984305

>>3984301
>tfw no qt gf to read you your favourite childhood books in bed in a gentle whisper

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>>3984305
>>3984305

>> No.3984311

>tfw you will never read completely The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

>> No.3984321

>>3984311
Oh man I love coming to /lit/ and seeing shit like this posted.

I'm also intrigued by that. There's a band called the Vivian Girls who took their name from that book

>> No.3984330

>>3984311
Go to the folklore museum in NY, they have the manuscript available for reading in its entirety upon appointment

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>>3984321
The cover of Animal Collective's album Feels is based on the author's art style.

>> No.3984338

>>3984334
Shame AnCo suck

>> No.3984339

>>3984330
>implying you can read a 15,000 page manuscript in one appointment

It's almost four times as long as In Search of Lost Time.

>> No.3984342

>>3984338
>implying you've listened to their early stuff

>> No.3986324

It's possible for a European to read it at the Princeton Library right? R-right?

>> No.3986793

Princeton's only an hour or so away from me, I've been meaning to head up there one of these days. I've heard that you need several forms of identification before you can even read it and then you're monitored the whole time.

>> No.3986798

>>3986324
yeah as long as you have two forms of i.d.

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>tfw you will never own a complete collection of Joyce's letters to Nora