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>yfw you realize Starbucks the coffee shop is named after Starbuck the character in Moby Dick

>> No.7175330

They should have stuck with Pequod because that's what their drinks taste like.

>> No.7175405

>tfw you realize Infinite Jest is a reference to Hamlet

still don't understand the significance of it though

>> No.7175455

>yfw when you discover The Dark Knight Rises is based off of A Tale of Two Cities
>yfw chapter 23 of book 2 is titled Fire Rises

>> No.7175490

>yfw the Baltimore Ravens are named after Poe bird

>> No.7175510

>the reality show big brother is a 1984 reference

>> No.7175562

>>7175330
They should have stuck with Captain Ahab because that's what their drinks taste like (like salty seaman).

>> No.7175570
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>>7175562
Nigga....

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>>7175562
You kek-inducing motherfucker

>> No.7175615

>>7175510
>tfw you read 1984 and realise that it isn't a novalisation of the big brother reality show

>> No.7175642
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>>7175615
>yfw orwellian newspeak

>> No.7175742

>>7175642
What the hell is this?

>> No.7175756

>>7175742
A ''relevant'' version of Romeo & Juliet from the looks of it.

What kind of a person do you have to be to make something like that?

>> No.7175778

>>7175642
It's called yolo Juliet or some such

>> No.7175953

>yfw you realize Camus' Magnms Opus was actually a metaphor for sitting on your hand until it's numb and then jerking off with it, ie the wave of relief (orgasm) you get when you finally resolve the apathy towards life (numbness) with the revelation that your life is no longer in your hands (someone else jerking you off)

>> No.7177566

>>7175405
i don't know how to do the spoiler thing so if anyone's reading this there's kind of an IJ spoiler in here


the structure of Hamlet is a never-ending story, themes of entertainment's role, parallel the samizdat and continental emergency to the fall of the empire in the final Act etc etc

>> No.7177584

>>7175264
cool, I'm sure this bit of trivia will get me laid sometime

>> No.7177638

>>7175953
Is this legit?

>> No.7177643

>>7177638
Yes this is correct.

>> No.7178088

>>7175953
What book? Sisyphus?

>> No.7178104

>>7178088

The Stranger

>> No.7178129

>>7175742
americanisation

>> No.7178267

>>7177566
You just put 'spoiler' in between brackets to start the spoiler and then '/spoiler' in between brackets when you're finished with what needs to be hidden.

it's fun

>> No.7178290

>>7175615
Lol! "Now a major television series"

>> No.7178315

>>7178267
spoiler

>> No.7178418

>>7178267
ebin

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7178420

>yfw you realize King and Pynchon are the same person

>> No.7178428

'spoiler' spoiler '/spoiler'

>> No.7178431

>>7178428
(spoiler) spoiler (/spoiler)

>> No.7178438

>>7178431
(spoiler "spoiler" /spoiler)

>> No.7178446

>>7178438
('spoiler' spoiler '/spoiler')

>> No.7178447

>>7178446
(spoiler spoiler /spoiler)

>> No.7178450

(Spoiler) I'm C.I.A /spoiler

>> No.7178453

>>7178447
>pls no bully

>> No.7178459

square brackets you dunce

newfags...

>> No.7178465

>>7178453
fuck you

>> No.7178474

>>7178459
fuck you but thank you

>> No.7178478

>>7178459
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE thanks

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>>7178450
UUUU

>> No.7178537

>>7178459
for you

>> No.7178728

>>7175405
Yeah, DFW saw the phrase "Infinite Jest" while reading Hamlet and thought it'd tie in perfectly with his New Sincerity bullshit.

>> No.7178764

\spoiler\

>> No.7178853

Best thread on /s4s/ right now

>> No.7178854

>>7175953
>mfw I thought it was just something from a Dave Chapelle skit and not actually a real thing people do

>> No.7178912

>>7178267
nigger

>> No.7179020

>>7178459
lamo tbh /spoiler

>> No.7179057

>>7178854
The first I heard of it was when a character mentioned it in the Gone in Sixty Seconds remake. He talked about it as if it was his invention.

>> No.7179089

Does /lit/ really have this many newfags?

>> No.7179319

>>7178129
Butthurt as fuck

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>yfw you realize that in the movie trilogy Star Wars, Luke was dressed in light colors and Darth Vader was dressed in black, showing good vs evil

>> No.7179697

>>7178853
this tbh fam

>> No.7179714

>>7175405
The book explicitly mentions this so if you had to "realize" it, you either never read it or are kinda retarded.

>> No.7179720

>>7178854
I tried it once. It's just a joke. It doesn't actually work.

>> No.7179730

>>7179720
>not embracing the absurd

>> No.7179733

>>7179678
Luke dressed in black in the last two, though.

>> No.7179773

>>7179733
Luke was slowly drifting toward the dark side. He was consumed by fury and a lust for revenge. But then at the end his father saved him and love conquered all.

>> No.7179808

>>7179678
>yfw you realize there are the following characters in the Star Wars flicks:

>Savage Opress
>Elan Sleazebaggano
>Darth Icky
>Dexter Jettster and his 50s cafe
>Sheev Palpatine
>Kit Fisto

also, pic related, it's Kardue'sai'Malloc

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>>7179808
oops, forgot pic