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>>8989012

Treasure Island is a perfect fucking book.

On the honest crew's side you have: captain smollett's strength and authority, Dr. Livesey's wisdom and cunning, and Jim's bravery and sheer luck.
Long John is so incredible because he possesses all of these attributes in himself alone, while not being written as a mary sue.

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Always loved adventure and fantasy.

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1984 because as I got older it grew more complex, it both taught me how to read as a kid and never became juvenile as an adult. It's a good delusion, love story, societal critique, warning, and parable. I think it's overplayed as /reddit/ and a children's book on /lit/, as I would agree with most books lumped into that category (Ender's Game, Hitchhikers, Vonnegut), and most intelligent teenagers have already read 1984 by the age of 16, but I think I'd enjoy it equally as much after moving on to works written in higher style and more grandiose ambitions.

Also, on its style, I think it is the most effective use of middle style in a novel.

So, those grapes are clearly fake.

Usually 80's pop and dad rock desu

Shit like Hall and Oates, Boston, Meatloaf, Madonna, and Billy Idol.

I never listen to music like that at any other occasion, though.

>>8988951
Mostly Jazz stuff like Bill Evans and Errol Garner, but I like Jazz regardless. Folk, sometimes.

Poetry is as natural an expression of pure human thought one can find outside of the works of Joyce. To an extent, it might even be thought of as partly prelinguistic.

Kind of related: Epic Greek was created as a poetic language.

A poet I'm not very fond of said that poetry is what is lost in translation. I agree with this for the same reason I disagree with the people who say that we think in language. Poetry is what is lost in translation as it's generally what can't be said. Another anon said prelingusitic, just from experience, I agree.

>>8988899
he was passionate about his masturbatory implement used to serve his sensuality

>>8988909
this

its 100% representative of 99% of irl relationships

is there a /ss/ equivalent of Lolita?

>starting a Gass thread without making a fart reference.
You are small time.

>>8988885
Fart jokes belong in Joyce threads, my friend.

The Gassman only comes by to inspect my stove.

he truly is /ourguy/

>>8988784
Bukowski

>>8988784
Just like any other pursuit, a nuts and bolts technical primer will do wonders for your foundation in poetry. Get a secondhand intro to poetry textbook. They use a lot of famous, well crafted poems as examples so youll kill two birds with one stone

poetic meter and poetic form is a brilliant book

>>8988762

People learn foreign languages to appreciate the artistry of works of fiction in their native language. But there is no artistry to philosophy. Why would you learn a foreign language when all that is necessary is to understand what is being said?

>>8988832
Because /lit/ told me not to read translations.

>>8988854
i read madame bovary in translation and although i didnt get the beautiful phrases attached to reading it in the original french, i still got all of the ideas, the message, the metaphors. reading in translation is perfectly fine and it will probably take you years to learn a language... you could spend that time just reading more.

if you really have to just do some research on the different translations and read a few different ones and compare for yourself.

Tuff Muffz, lesbian biker gang

>>8988733
I love old books like this sometimes.

People are usually ejaculating everywhere.

>Very sorry to knock you up, Watson

Was this the inception of gay fanfiction?

>>8988726
No offence, but your voice hurts my ears and I couldn't understand anything. There is like an echo or something.

>>8988726
Go away CIA

>>8988770
ahhh shit senpai, sorry. I would love to hear someone else do a reading.

>>8988628
cafe con leche

>>8988654
epic post

write goodly

One day when I was 8 the other class in my year were going on a field trip to a farm. It was raining and one boy forgot to bring his coat to school. This made him cry, perhaps ashamed to have caused an incovenience on what should have been an exciting day. I came to the rescue and let him borrow my cute little lime green coat and he enjoyed his day at the farm.

One day when I was six my best friend was going about his business when a sudden undulation of the lower intestine caused a rather vicious eruption from his hindquarters. Not having prepared for such an outpouring of rectal runoff he went into my locker and took my reserve pair of undies and went about the rest of his day in perfect mirth.

>>8988577
>What have you done, /lit/
I masturbated this morning

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Bumping for the sake of perpetuating the bait.

> waddles over to /fit/

"free weights are shit"

> waddles over to /k/

"hollowpoints are shit"

> waddles over to /d/

"uh.. i'm way out of my depth here."

Listen to me little motherfucker take your little motherfuckers ass over here in another way I'll go to your little motherfucker mom and I will fuck her little motherfuckers ass r u understand little motherfucker blyad?

>>8988548

name?

it me

>>8988548
Next time, post in the critique thread instead of making a new thread.

>>8988529
he didn't have any friends

>>8988559
Not true, he had lots, and most were famous and interesting

>>8988566
how did he got those friends?

>>8988501
Yes.

>>8988501
>"r classics worth reeding???? xxddDDXD"

They wouldn't be included in the canon if they weren't worth reading for their own sake.