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I vote yes.

ugly or aging trannies who don't pass as women. They resort to using exaggerated "feminine" language like calling everyone "hon."

>>8401491
it's a french laugh

I get excited when I'm into a book. Like, I really, really wanna continue reading a story but I'm exhausted or my brain is just too tired to read more.

I don't allow myself to stop in the middle of chapters. I've figured out that just causes confusion. If you stop reading a book for a few months or even a week, going back in midway into a chapter will leave you confused to what is happening. So I only read full chapters. That causes me to become even more excited, because many chapters finish on some sort of cliffhanger.

I imagine if I wasn't living in the time of the internet and video games, I would spend most of my time reading.

>>8401450
same problem here.

>>8401450
I don't know I love it

Andrew George by a longshot

>>8402930
This desu. The Penguin edition is on libgen, along with the Oxford one (I think?) which has the parallel text, also edited and translated by George.

Aside from George's introduction, is there anything else one should read to gain a better understanding of the context in which Gilgamesh was written and also its cultural and literary importance?

>>8402973
Genesis from the Bible. Especially the flood parts and the part with Nimrod [Gen 10:10] (who a lot of people think IS Gilgamesh, but probably isn't)

>>8401414
my diary desu

>>8401414
I love comics! But they don't make them in black and white like they used to.... except the japanese ones, but those ones aren't funny....

I just finished The Pickwick Papers, my first Dickens novels, two days ago. Not very funny, but definitely amusing throughout. I'm looking forward to Oliver Twist in the future, especially since it's more of a standard novel than a travelogue.

In all forms of media, pop culture references need to be done carefully. I'd recommend to only reference works already thought of as classic, and less likely to make your work seem aged. Unless you want your work to be distinctly of a certain time period, which in that case obscure references could build realism.

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>>8401367
Thanks for the reply anon. What about a cyberpunk work referencing Blade Runner? After all that is the canonical work of the genre

>>8401355
Pynchon does it so it's for sure not shitty writing. But as always it depends on how it's done, I mean look at Ernest Cline as an example how not to do it

If a book is build on them then it will always suck (Ready Player One)

I learn a lot when I read fiction. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on how the gentry lived in the 1800s in the UK and Russia, for example.

>>8401352
Do you even read fiction? Cause you really pick up on lots of stuff when you read fiction. It's not as specific as in non-fiction obviously but you really broaden your knowledge by reading it.

People always seem to be impressed by my general knowledge and all I do basically is read fiction

I feel the same way about talking to people who can't appreciate fiction, OP. Why waste my time talking to a person with no soul or personality?

It's mostly social context

>>8401305
Well, I've gotten that, but it's not interesting to me. Is there anything else that could be of interest here?

>>8401314
Drop it

it's shit like this that scares me from studying philosophy

I've watched tons of Millennial Woes vids and none of them were about any of that shit desu

>>8401276
Wat

>>8401274
My diary desu

>>8401274
All of them

Nicomachean Ethics
Meditations

Reads pretty well this way.

>>8401241
agreed, the performance was just kind of shit

>>8401249

The directing and production (incl greenscreen) did not lend itself to the best performances

How do we know if we are there or not? If I'm mid way now I won't even make it to 60. I always wanted to be a healthy, strong, cognizant 60 year old like my former wrestling coach.

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>>8401167
>How do we know
Teachers come when we are ready for them, anon.

>>8401167
Don't tell me you haven't read Inferno

>>8401086
depends on if that opinion was a descriptive approximation, or a normative prediction

That sounds rather high

>>8401086
I know this is bait, but it deserves to be explained

You're referencing his talented tenth idea. It's closely related to the number of African-Americans in the South who could be realistically expected to gain enough literacy to attend the black colleges W.E.B Dubois supported building. The talented tenth would then devote their lives to educating the rest of the southern black population in abject poverty gain literacy. It was an idea designed to create a class of educated black elites who could steer the black population of America to a more equitable place in U.S. society.

Doctor Copeland from McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter can be read as prototypical member of the "talented tenth" who struggles to deliver his family from abject poverty and ignorance.

Pretty quality shitpost tho

definitely a grills handwriting, i wonder if you can track her down and kidnap her to become yur wafiu ^.~

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Have a lot of used books, so this is in a lot of my books. Close at hand is this copy of the heart of the matter. There's the same writing in my copy of women in love.

sure.

yes, and i can prove it by algebra

>>8401029
What about horatio and the guard seeing it?
How did hamlet know his uncle murdered his father?

At a pen shop?

>>8400881
Why don't you want to order online? You'd have such a better selection.

Anyway,
http://www.coloradopen.com/
http://www.paradisepen.com/
http://www.shopcherrycreek.com/directory/montblanc

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>>8400926
I want to feel the pens.
I think paradise pen is the closest.
Not looking to spend more than 20 to 30 bucks though so might just settle for office depot or some such.