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ITT : We determine the final boss of literature. My suggestion : The Voynich Manuscript

>> No.7071176

>>7071169
>still thinking of literature in video game terms

time to uninstall WoW faggot

>> No.7071181

>>7071176
I've never played WoW in my entire life.

>> No.7071192

Let's start a new final boss of literature right now, one word at a time

I'll start:

JUST

>> No.7071203
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>>7071169
>manuscript on alchemy and astronomy
>we have deciphered half the plants and half the stars by now
>it is likely some anatolian language that didn't survive tamerlane and has surviving relatives on the caucasus mountains
nah, moar like the non-mandatory sub-boss tank on level one

>> No.7071205

It's not literature if nobody can read it

>> No.7071235

Linear A obviously.

It's a lost chain back from the start of Western civilisation, the greeks.

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7071247

Posting the obvious answer early on

>> No.7071256

>>7071205
game are literature though. games are compiled literature.

>> No.7071261

>>7071205
Then it's perfect. /lit/ equates indecipherability with quality anyway. That's why it's always jerking itself off over Finnegann's Sake and Uselessyes and Gravity's Dickjoke.

>> No.7071264

>>7071181
that doesn't mean you don't have it installed

checkmate athiest

>> No.7071268

>>7071192
>/tv/ poster tries to get a memetrain going on /lit/
>it's failure just like his life

>> No.7071304

>>7071192
FINALIZE

>> No.7071350

>>7071169
In the realms of the unknown

>> No.7071358

>>7071247
End it in fire

>> No.7071360

>>7071203
AHHH! FRESH MEAT!

>> No.7071364

Julian Rios - Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1019760.Larva

>> No.7071370

>>7071247
/thread

>> No.7071375

here is an alternative to Finnegans Wake

Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_Men

>> No.7071414

Why do plebs always feel the urge to make everything including literature ludic? Can't you read like everybody else without thinking of XP and “bosses”?

>> No.7071429

>>7071414
>Why do plebs always feel the urge to make everything including literature forbidden? Can't you read like everybody else without thinking of sin and “inquisitions”?

>> No.7071433

>Villon's stuff written in XV century argo.
Gogol is like a surprising heavyweight for me.
Again not final boss tier, but Dictionary of the Khazars is formally very impressing.
There are pre-classicism plays that lasted for several days and all the characters were actually based on real people from the court.
the phone book may be considered a contender if you are dada or something.
Khlebnikov poems.

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7071455

Pure misery

>> No.7071473
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7071473

>>7071169
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

>> No.7071478

>>7071414
You're putting too much thought in to what is meant. It's simply another way of what is the most difficult work in literature to read/understand. It's not like OP is thinking, "Oh, boy, if I read the Voynich Manuscript I'll reach level 87 in Bullshitting!"

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>>7071478
>tfw you finish war and peace

>> No.7071673

>>7071473
This looks interesting

>> No.7073232

The Cat in the Hat.
Not just reading, but grasping all of the symbolism present in its 33 words.

Finale should be as Zen as finalising literature could be

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7073264

the final boss doesn't need to be the hardest

>> No.7073289

>>7071504

When I finished War and Peace I was finally kind of disappointed. The drops are lame and felt like end game content of the last expansion.

Thick Book Librarian by the way.

>> No.7073312

>>7071455
Has anyone here read this, or attempted to read it? What's it like? Is it Wake-tier in difficulty?

>> No.7073342

>>7071504
now do in search of lost time

>> No.7073521

>>7073264
He's hard if you don't bug abuse

>> No.7073528

>>7073312
I think its worse. At least wake can be recited. Traum reads like computer code

>> No.7073553

>>7073528
Damn man. Well, if it's harder than FW, that sounds like the true "Final Boss" of literature. Or perhaps it's one of those hidden, optional Final Fantasy bosses that's like twice as hard as the actual final boss. Finnegans Wake, after all, is the obvious choice (at least for an English-speaker), but Zettels Traum waits in some obscure corner, ready to pounce, festering in translation. There's been an English "translation" (if it can be called such a thing; I find the concept of a Wake translation, for example, highly implausible) going on for like 8 years, right?

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7073578

>>7073553
Yeah, the english translation in the works for a long time now. Not many people are hopeful it'll ever be finished.

Also, pic related, it's the first page of Zettels Traum

>> No.7073584

>>7073578

Well, what do you think about the plausibility of trying to translate it? Is it in the sort of extremely multilayered language of the Wake, or is it more restricted to variations on German itself? By the way, have you actually read it, or just looked at it?

>> No.7073585

>>7073578
How the fuck do you even read this shit?

>> No.7073587

>>7071169
The Voynich Manuscript is that optional sideboss that the programmers made it actually impossible to beat

>> No.7073588

>>7071473
>Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
>seems interesting
>check project gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18459/18459-h/18459-h.htm

i'm so excited

>> No.7073602

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_text

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7073616

Outta My Way Voynich Fucking Shits

>> No.7074062

>>7073588
Got it on my Kindle, I'm going to tackle it. Sort of wanted to read it in Italian, but It also has latin parts, which I probably won't be able to go through.

>> No.7074144

>>7073578
i read an article within the last month or so that said the translation was finally finished, and it'll probably be published by dlakey archive, who've done most of his other books that have been translated.
the only problem left is that it'll probably cost a couple hundred bucks at least and probably won't be in print very long

>> No.7074175

>>7071433
>Villon's stuff written in XV century argo.
Villon was an argonaut?

>> No.7074182

>>7071433
>Gogol is like a surprising heavyweight for me.
wat wat wat

>> No.7074187
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>>7071473
A little bit like the Renaissance version of House of Leaves

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7074194

step aside ladies

>> No.7074196

>>7074194
Not really. There was a book written in the 40s that used HEX codes.

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7074692

>>7074196
>tfw were only 20 years from another 40s

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>> No.7074750

>>7074706
Codex Seraphinianus doesn't count because it doesn't fucking mean anything. It's a masterpiece, but not a literary one.