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New thread.

I want to see more of these, ya ken?

>> No.5753719
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Here's the template.

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>> No.5753903

bump
chatting with a girl and i want to be pretentious

>> No.5753904

corn

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>>5753904

>> No.5753934

corn

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>>5753904
>>5753916
>>5753934

>> No.5753993

>>5753934
>>5753903
>>5753982

Please, no more corn.

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>> No.5754086
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Just wondering that /lit/, anyone could tell me which is the best translation of the I Ching available?
It'd be best if someone who actually knows Chinese could tell me, but any recommendation is welcome.

>> No.5754090

>>5754086
Shit, dun goofed, wrote in the wrong window, disregard this post.

>> No.5754099

there was a 100 years of solitude one recently that was pretty good

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>> No.5754155

>>5754148
I fucking used the template that anon posted and just now I realized it says "watched".

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>> No.5754367

>>5754155
lel. But you are portraying the truth. That's waht counts.

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>> No.5754986

>>5754983
10/10

>> No.5754992

>>5754148
How did you watch Juan Rulfo Pedro Paramo?

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>> No.5755091

>>5755081
>War and Peace (Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic

>epic

dropped

>> No.5755094

>>5755091
can you not?

>> No.5755187

>>5754090

Wow. If you hadn't pointed that out, I would never have realized.

>> No.5755226

>>5753896
That isn't helpful

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>> No.5755298
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>> No.5755307

>>5755298
Have you ever thought about how much distance is covered in Tolkien's works?

The hobbits must have massive calves

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>>5755307
dunno but here is a hero from the first age.

>> No.5755314

>>5755307
But da eagles m8

Why not call an eagle cab?

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>>5753713

>> No.5755593

>>5755496
That's a fine queynte.

>> No.5755689

Someone post the mein kampf one its funny to me

>> No.5755713

>>5754992
There is a movie adaptation starring John Gavin.

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>> No.5757083

>>5753982
They don't even have corn in yurop

>> No.5757094

>>5757083
True. Does it taste as good as wheat?

>> No.5757096

>>5755091
I would not drop a book that huge. You might hurt your feet.

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>tfw no chutney-maker gf

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>> No.5757316

>>5757303
ayy

>> No.5757336

>>5757303
The film is better.

>> No.5757347

>>5755091
>dropped

reported

>> No.5757369

>>5757336
GLORIOUS SOLYARYSH OF FINDING LOST WIFE AND COMRADES

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>> No.5758159

>>5757950

God I lolled hard.

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have some OC, thread.

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I still liked it.

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>> No.5759032

>>5755298
Hobbit is such a comfy book

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>>5753713

>> No.5759186

>>5757182
Do you have that Frankenfeels picture by itself?

>> No.5759421

>>5757950
>not posting the octopus-punching episode

>> No.5759437

>>5759421
I think the pig is better. It's easier for people to understand who haven't read the book.

Also, I don't have a photograph of a dude punching an octopus.

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>> No.5760067

>>5760037
Any good? Just read a few of Gogol's short stories.

>> No.5760077

>>5760067

I enjoyed parts of it, but I felt like a lot of the humor was lost in translation. The ending is shit because part of the manuscript was missing.

>> No.5760130

>>5755091
kek

>> No.5760135

>>5755496
what does it say I can't read it

>> No.5760144

>>5760135
that's because it's in middle english, anon

>> No.5760146

>>5760135

Stuff about a guy farting and another guy kissing a chick's arse.

>> No.5760168

>>5760144
wow, didn't expect that from a 14th century English writer

>>5760146
thanks, found it

This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
That with the strook he was almoost yblent;
And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot,
Of gooth the skyn an hande brede aboute,
The hoote kultour brende so his toute,
And for the smert he wende for to dye.
As he were wood, for wo he gan to crye,
"Help! Water! Water! Help for Goddes herte!"

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not reformatting this shit

>> No.5761176

>>5760199
This is why I want to read it

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>> No.5761514

>>5760168
>wow, didn't expect that from a 14th century English writer

The centuries before the 19th weren't like Victorian times.

>> No.5761671

>>5761357

Dead on

>> No.5761693

>>5753999

>any caloric deficit diet

>> No.5761704

>>5754983
lel

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>>5760199

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>> No.5761995

>>5761357
ehh there was a fair amount of bullfighting

>> No.5761998

>>5761914
kek

that bit had me in stitches

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>> No.5762161

>>5761357
this x100

>> No.5762216

>>5755496
This sums up my experience with Chaucer perfectly.

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I still liked it.

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>> No.5762489

>>5754168

Really man? I mean there were scenes where it was implied cannibalism was taking place. Shit got real.

>> No.5762498

>>5757303
>>5757950
>>5761357
>>5762461

F U C K I N G K E K
U C K I N G K E K
C K I N G K E K
K I N G K E K
I N G K E K
N G K E K
G K E K
K E K
E K
K

>> No.5762641

>>5762461
fucking lol'd

>> No.5762679

>>5754983
very nice

>> No.5762698

>>5753982
>>5754983
>>5757303
>>5762461

ayy

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>> No.5762785

>>5762708
kek

>> No.5764270

>>5762750

Glad I'm not the only one

>> No.5764371

>>5762715
why did i laugh so fucking hard

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>>5762750
>>5764270
>sneaky shllling

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>>5764543

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>>5764547

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It's actually a really good, emotionally evocative read about hunger, racism, resistance and state brutality.

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Some fresh OC

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And I wanted so bad to like it.

>> No.5764736

>>5761514
really, please do tell more

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>> No.5764794

>>5764428

>I haven't heard of this book
>hurr shill

>> No.5764950

>>5764419
Kek

>> No.5764952

>>5764711
The best thing about that book is that you get both what you expect and what you don't expect.

>> No.5765027

>>5764749

Top jej

>> No.5765131

>>5755902
This makes the book based as fuck