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6300324 No.6300324 [Reply] [Original]

Does literature get better than this?

>> No.6300342

that's not literature, that's a script for a performance piece

>> No.6300343

>>6300324
How do you like King Lear?
Or maybe that's for an older man.

>> No.6300352
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>>6300324
The Merchant of Venice is better

Also Hamlet is his own father so sayeth James "spluttering fart sucking" Joyce

>> No.6300384

>>6300352
I hadn't even read Hamlet when reading Ulysses, but I could still understand how incredible that chapter was.

>> No.6300879

>>6300324
Chaucer

>> No.6301204

Why is Shakespeare so based?

>> No.6303478

>>6300343
Nah, Lear's fucking dope for all ages.

Though, I have a soft spot for the Don Quixote, but maybe that's just me.

>> No.6303493

>>6301204
bcuz he takes credit for things he didn't wrote by himself

>> No.6303525

Literature is the shadows of Plato's allegorical cave. It's a complete waste of time. People that read literature are begging to be deceived, to be filled with bizarre notions and ridiculous conceits. It's an abuse of man's imaginative faculty, as masturbation is an abuse of man's sexual faculty.

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>>6303525
I don't think I've ever seen so much fedora contained in one post

>> No.6303570

>>6300324
not better, not worse, just different. stop ranking literature.

>> No.6303571

>>6303567
You're misusing that miem.

>> No.6303578

>>6303525

and let me guess, theorizing about elementary particles that can never be proven to exist for the sake of "figuring out the universe" is the correct use of man's faculties

>> No.6303594

>>6300352
>The Merchant of Venice is better
Yeah, no.