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5420576 No.5420576 [Reply] [Original]

>“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”

Worst metaphor ever?

>> No.5420593

>>5420576
you just dont understand.
you're not pretentious enough

>> No.5420617

>>5420576
It's more of a symbol. Maybe a statement. Definitely not a metaphor.

>> No.5420647

>>5420576
He's a stupidly pretentious yet well meaning character, he feels well rounded to me.

>> No.5420661

>>5420647
The book feels like reading two litfags talk to each other about muh Nietzsche

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5420679

>>5420576

I could use some killing things right now

>tfw quit

>> No.5420683

>>5420661
I wouldn't talk about Nietzsche because I feel I don't understand him. I've only read the first part of Thus Spoke, so maybe I'll get better.

>> No.5420704

>dear diary
>today i sucked cocks on many levels
>i am confident one day i will find my transcendental glans wedged down my own throat while shitposting and in that moment i shall achieve the true metaphor
>yours, not literally choking on cocks fast enough but willing myself to me better, and, as ever, sincerely,
>OP

>p.s. please don't tell my mom i'm gay. i think she reads you when she cleans my room

>> No.5422657

>>5420576
It's a metaphor because its analogous to him eating her out. She's dying and he's gonna put her in his mouth but he's gonna continue living after he does this cancer chick (just before he takes another cancer girl). Because he's a sociopath with an oral fixation who can't stop fucking cancer girls.

>> No.5422695
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5422695

>>5420679
>tfw smoking again

>> No.5422732

>>5422657
someone didn't read the book or watch the movie.

>> No.5422737

>>5420593
lol.

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5422744

>>5422695
tfw on wellbutrin which makes smoking not really pleasurable anymore, and it reduces my cravings by like 80%.
thing is i'm not trying to quit, i was just depressed.

>> No.5422747

>>5422732
someone did just inspire me to write the best satire ever though

>> No.5422748

>>5420576
>tfw I don't spend my time hanging around small children and therefore don't know about these "popular" books except through /lit/'s whining

>> No.5422756

>>5422657
You what mate

>> No.5422763

>>5422657
this is still my favorite narrative explanation for the metaphor, even if it's false.

>> No.5422778

No one here actually likes A Fault in Our Stars, right?