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>"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" across the sky.

Jesus Christ, really? Stopped reading there.

>> No.6999326

Plebicus Maximus,

>> No.6999557

>I am in a chair environed by headless bodies.
Trash

>> No.6999559

Just pretend it's art. Everything is deep and has value if everyone pretends it's art.

>> No.6999562

>"your banana is ripe"
>"for you"

god fuck it

>> No.6999565

>Gregory Samson awoke one morning from an easy dream to find he was in a bug bed

>> No.6999570

>Hi, you can call me Ishmael.

>> No.6999579

>The moment the Anabaptist chaplain known as Father A.T. Tappman entered Yossarian's field of vision, he could not help but hear the zing zing zing of his heartstrings.

>> No.6999602

Imagine a boot stamping on the human face... for a very, very long time.

>> No.6999911

The screaming wind as the rocket rips through it, the screaming populace spotting the rocket above, the screaming rocket heard only after it explodes, the screaming of orgasm comes across the sky, come being unambiguously sexual in itself, in one line the book establishes its main themes and parallel. Sex and death, the rocket, the orgasm, the force and the counterforce.

>> No.6999924

>>6999911

yep

>> No.7001281

>>6999911
Yeah, once that line was written he should be stopped, all he had to say was said already, there's no need for the rest of the book.

>> No.7001294

Pinecone confirmed for inventing the *pans to sky* EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH???!?!?!?? scene in chinese cartoons

>> No.7001299

>As Gregor Aureliano awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself facing the firing squad

>> No.7001307

>>6999294
>A man as fat as a state came from the stairs
Wtf is that even supposed to mean?

>> No.7001317

>>6999294
>doo doo
>black man's penis

>> No.7001343
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7001343

>>7001317
>hold up my fur

>> No.7001585

>It was the best of times...

no

>> No.7001589

>Maman has expired.
Really?

>> No.7001901

>All straight families are the straight, but families with gay parents are gay in their own way

>> No.7001921

>The rocket seemed to scream as its tail fins sliced through the air at blinding speed.

There, now it's better than anything pinchin has every written.

inb4 >hurr simile

If you're over the age of 12 you'll realize the truth in the maxim "less is more" and that simile is infinitely stronger than its tryhard cousin.

>> No.7001927

>Skinny guy called Buck Mollygan descended from the stairs
D r o p p e d

>> No.7001943

>>6999294
I smirked.

>> No.7001948

>>7001921
i hope that's b8

how is your flaccid sentence simpler and stronger than "A screaming comes across the sky"?

>> No.7001951

>>7001921
good try tbh

>> No.7001953

#1 for book that didn't live up to its hype

>> No.7001959

>>7001589
ma man

>> No.7001962

>Lolita--

--I just can't do it.

>> No.7001970

>>6999579
I quite like this one.

>> No.7001973

>>7001921
>past tense
>seemed to
>blinding

dull dull dull uninspired boring

>> No.7001982

>Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them playing golf.
Seriously?

>> No.7002004

>People are afraid to parallel park in San Diego
Really Bret?

>> No.7002005

>It was a sunny April morn in Spring, and the bells were ringing 2400.
really? Jesu Christ

>> No.7002038

First, there was.. Don't know really, but then God...
SHOULD HAVE FIRED THE EVANGRLUSTS B4 IT WAS TOO LATE

>> No.7002054

"AAAAHHHHH!" screamed the rocket. "I'M CUMMING...ACROSS."

"DO IT. SPLIT MY CLOUDS IN TWO! DROP YOUR PAYLOAD RIGHT INTO MY CUMULIFORMS. GET ME PREGNANT!"

really? jesus christ

>> No.7002056

>'Tis a bloody well known fact, that a single man with heaps of dosh, must not 'ave a bird by 'is side.

I don't know why I keep reading English lit.

>> No.7002078

>>6999294
Hey guys, just dropping in to ask if, at the end, the closeup of "a face we all know" is Hitler?

>> No.7002125
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7002125

KEK SOMEBODYS TRYING TO ELICIT CONNECTIONS IN THE READERS SUBCONSCIOUS

>> No.7002176

>>7002004
LA*

>> No.7003382

More like, "a memeing comes across the sky."

>> No.7003454

>Hey, it's a fuckin play so don't get your panties in a wad over it

>> No.7003462

>>7002176
The joke is he fucked with the line.