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Anon, you have been assigned by the United Nations to choose one document, in any language, to be preserved for eternity via education in schools, translation into other languages, and engraving into stone. Which document do you choose? Why?

>> No.7274641

Gravity's Rainbow. It'll warm my heart to see people struggling to understand pop culture references in a few hundred years.

>> No.7274642

Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire.

>> No.7274644

Can it be a poem? If so, this

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174659

If not, The Stranger, by Camus. To remind us for all eternity that life is too grand to let rule over us.

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7274666

some piece of garbage I wrote

that way, in a hundred years idiots will be praising the crap that i shat from my asshole as worth anything whatsoever

>> No.7274684

>>7274628
The Bible

>> No.7275059

How to Bomb the United Nations

>> No.7275090

In search of lost time

>> No.7275154

"Haha, fagger"

>> No.7275174

Grant Morrison's entire Bat-Epic.

>> No.7275316

>>7274628
The Holy Bible

>> No.7275381

>>7274684
>>7275316
the kjv tbhfam

>> No.7275387

>>7274628
the iliad

>> No.7275392

the god delusion

>yfw atheism becomes as pedestrian and boring as greek mythology is to most people in modern times

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7275402

>>7275392
You forgot your emotion picture.
Here's mine, his name is "Cec"

>> No.7275455

Shakespeare.

>> No.7276001

yes

>> No.7276004

Vulgate (Latin) Bible

>> No.7276010

The God Delusion

>> No.7276188
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7276188

1984 by George Orwell in English

>> No.7276193

>>7276188
Please leave

>> No.7276277

>>7274628
this meme tbh

>> No.7276282

DIVINE COMEDY

>> No.7276375

Magna Carta

>> No.7276387

>>7274628
>one document

4chan rules.

>> No.7276391

That 3 billion word smash bros fanfiction with a foreword by me about how much I hate stone gravers.

>> No.7276453

>>7274628
my suicide note tbh fam

>> No.7276466

Finnegans wake, because I hate kids.

>> No.7276475

Finnegans Wake after we put it through Google Translate a few times

>> No.7276481

>>7276475
Slightly too slow I'm afraid, but the translation idea has merit.

>> No.7278369

>>7274628
>United Nations
>I'd pick a medical pamphlet on how to deal with delusions of grandeur.

>> No.7278460

>>7274628
Some of the best verses in the New Testament.

>> No.7278465

The Canterbury Tales.

>> No.7278541

Beowulf

No joke

It's comfy to me.

>> No.7278552

An x-ray of my penis.

>> No.7278608

>>7278460
Reasoning?

>> No.7278625

>>7274628
The Phenomenology of Spirit. from it, all modern ideologies are derivable. we'll be back on our feet in about 100 years if things go haywire

>> No.7279307

Mein Kampf

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>> No.7279345

>>7278625
>chuckle to myself a lil bit about this
>analytical philosophy is actually making a roundabout to Hegel now because the influence of the students of Wilfrid Sellars
>tfw in ten years you'll have to read the phenomenology of spirit in a philosophy of language class

>> No.7279953

My diary tbh

>> No.7280212

>>7278608
This is the most influencial book ever written and I can't really think of a better moral. “Love each other”, “don't hit back”, “give to the poor”, “disregard fame” and so on seem to me healthy and sane rules and if everybody followed them, it would be a great world. Of course, we should drop out obsolete ones.

>> No.7280218

Quaran