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>Call me Ishmael.

>> No.6905884

>>6905871
>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

>> No.6905897
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>For a long time I used to go to bed early.

>> No.6905913

>>6905871
>something something once upon a moocows time a boring stupid book was written about a little irish cunt no one cared about

>> No.6905920

>>6905871
Metal Gear Solid isn't literature, anon.

>> No.6905933

>>6905920
Neither is religion or philosophy, but people still shitpost about it.

>> No.6905977

>>6905913
>disliking the best prose writer of the last century
Into the trash you go!

>> No.6905983
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>riverrun, past Eve and Adam's...

>> No.6905986

>And thus spoke Zarathustra.

Oh wait.

>> No.6905992

>>6905913
>moocows
Literally stopped reading there and threw the book away. What a piece of fucking hackwork.

>> No.6906002

Shouldn't it be "For a long time, I'd gone to bed early." I mean the passe compose kind of implies that the repeated action is finished at the point in time he's referring to. shit translation tbh

>> No.6906133

>>6905871
>Call me Manasseh.

>> No.6906228
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>In principio creavit deus caelum et terram

Is there a bigger piece of genre schlock in existence?

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>>6905871
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...

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>I woke up a bug.
seriously?

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>In the beginning god created...

>> No.6906332

The sky was tuned to the color of black and white, simultaneously, in a nonsensical metaphor that will just be banal later when the cultural context changes.

>> No.6906337

>>6906332
Now this? I can get behind!

>> No.6906353

>>6905871
Who is John Galt?

>> No.6906767
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>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

>> No.6906771

>>6906332
it was banal when it was written

>> No.6906777

>See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Oh boy, this will be good . . . NOT.

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>At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch's Ponds.

>> No.6906816

>Der Reichtum der Gesellschaften, in welchen kapitalistische Produktionsweise herrscht, erscheint als eine "ungeheure Warensammlung" die einzelne Ware als seine Elementarform.

>> No.6906847

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you really want to see the nicens tuckeroo halfway through the journey of life in a hole in the ground full of heads and bodies as he faced the firing squad in the week before he leaves for the grand Buck Mulligan which came screaming across the sky
-Call me Lo-li-ta
In my younger years, or maybe in the beginning, I saw the child awake to find he'd become a television tuned to a dead channel.

>> No.6906865

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.

>> No.6906916

>>6905977
>liking the best prose writer's worst writing
le tresh men dot png

>> No.6906917

>>6906916
i bet you think portrait is a bad book lol

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>>6905871
My gf gifted me Moby Dick, what does /lit/ consider it pleb or pat?

>> No.6907768

>>6906777
>See the child.
Nigger, that's the best introductory sentence in a novel ever written.

>> No.6907771

>>6906928
>gf
>decent lit

is she a qt?

>> No.6907775

>>6906928
my gf gifted me Glamorama by Ellis
wat do?

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>>6907771

>> No.6907860

>>6907855
Those are some sturdy ear muff- I mean, thighs.

>> No.6907903

>>6906928
>Moby Dick
It's patrician, but I guess since we're on /lit/ you could call it "pleb" since it's entry-level /lit/?

>>6907855
IX/X puellae, would gift books and discuss with.

>> No.6907915

>>6906928
It's the greatest American novel.

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>I SING OF ARMS AND THE MAN

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>Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday

>> No.6907928

>>6907768
its my favorite book tbh im just participating

>> No.6909599

>>6906767
>A screaming comes across the sky

>> No.6909605

>>6907855
What she reading tho

>> No.6909618

We were teenagers, we were pubescent, and we both just became werewolves like that, mysteriously, yiffing furiously in the pale Summer moonlight.

>> No.6909624

>>6907916
>not 'Arma virumque cano'

Literal Plebeian detected.

>> No.6909630

>>6905920
It's a video game adaptation of Brothers Karamazov, so it counts.

>> No.6909644

>>6905871
>Call me maybe

>> No.6909654

>>6906917
I mean, I pretty much said exactly that in my post, so...

>> No.6909659

>>6907855
rp is fun, isn't it anon?

>> No.6909672

>>6907855
>two single beds

>> No.6909694

>>6909605
Moby Dick.
>>6909659
Wat?
>>6909672
Its my mothers house

>> No.6909763

>Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at that critical moment it presumes itself as reality.


is this nigga srs

>> No.6909831

>>6906917
shit book tbh

>> No.6909839

>>6907917
kek

>> No.6910060

>>6909630
>Big Boss is Fyodor
>Solidus is Dmitri
>Liquid is Ivan
>Solid is Alyosha
It all fits, only one missing is Smerdyakov.

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>>6906797
I'm reading this now, I really enjoy it but that opening was shit.

>> No.6912015

>>6905897
lol...

>> No.6912158

>>6905871
Whenever people post this toad-faced fuck I can tell that they don't shower and their rooms are cluttered with full pissbottles.

>> No.6912621

>>6909672
Maybe they're splitting the sheets.
Eh? Eh?