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What's your favourite individual chapter from a book? Mine is June 10th 1910 from The Sound and the Fury. It's as well-realised a character study as anybody's ever written and Faulkner's prose has never been more beautiful or immediate. If it had been released as a stand-alone novella I think it would still be held up as a masterpiece in its own right.

What about you, /lit/?

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>>6646417
Mine is Chapter 4: Why there almost certainly is no God from The God Delusion. It's as well-realised a defense of science as anybody's ever written and Dawkins' prose has never been more beautiful or immediate. If it had been released as a stand-alone novella I think it would still be held up as a masterpiece in its own right.

>> No.6646448

>>6646417
Good fucking pick.

It's between Molly's soliloquy in Ulysses, Hades in Ulysses, June 10th 1910, Addie or Benjy's chapters is As I Lay Dying, Mondougan's (sp?) chapter in V., and the episode thingy magig in Gravity's Rainbow that begins with the (possibly made up) quote from Gospel of Thomas i.e. "Dear, Mom. I put a couple of people in hell today."

I'm a meme.

>> No.6646455

>>6646429
euphoric

>> No.6646462

>>6646455
This perfectly describes my feelings when thinking back on it, thank you.

In fact, I will probably go reread it right now. Ta-ta /lit/.

>> No.6646466

>>6646429
>Look it up
>That's actually the title of chapter 4

kek

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>>6646455
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