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>>8263028

>or was he only taking care of Cosette to make up for the times when he couldn't take care of his sister and her children while in prison?

according to ignorant memeposters like you, that still makes him a """"""""""cuck""""""""""

let's just ignore Valjean's heroism and virtue, as well as the social commentary in this brilliant novel so we can mastur- I mean, complain about interracial pornography

>>8263028
It wasn't any single reason, it's just the way things ended up happening.

Jean Valjean was redeemed by the Bishop, and vowed to live on the high road for the rest of his life. He made a promise to Fantine that he would take care of Cosette. This was when he was still the mayor and he had a lot of power to watch over the child. Obviously Champmathieu fucked that up for him, but he still made a promise. After saving her from the Thenardiers, he quickly fell in love with her, and she was literally the only thing in his life. From that point on, he wasn't making up for anything or keeping promises. He simply loved Cosette and wanted to give her the best life she could possibly hope to achieve, even to the point of relinquishing her to Marius.

Jean Valjean is one of the best written characters in literature. I won't have you calling him a cuck. He never even had a wife and probably died a virgin.

>>8263028
If anything Javert killed himself because he was a just man cucked by an unjust society. Dat anagnorisis.

If it can work in manga it can work in prose.

Given that mechs only exist because they look cool and wouldn't actually be any use in real combat, a book is unlikely to do them "well".

>>8262913
Sorry to say, contemporary sci-fi has always had stuff more towards space fleets and dogfighters, like something you would see in LotGH, and that would make sense.

Mechs in space don't sound all that practical, and would be more geared towards ground combat as most people would imagine, IE shit like Avatar and War of the Worlds

It doesn't count as pretending if she believes you.

Pretended to have read loads of Sartre and Camus. Had a 45 minute introductionary course of existentialism.

>>8262871
I impress my spouse by pretending to have read more than I have. Not necessarily any certain authors, just in quantity

Yep.

>>8262819
no

even cervantes is better than him, and he is irrelevant nowadays

>>8262872
nah

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>>8262752
>tfw i am an integral part of /lit/'s shitposting and meme culture
>tfw i am responsible for a good amount of dfw reaction images, including OP's

makes life worth living tbchwyf

>>8262752
Doesn't mean anything positive in regards to yourself. For one those ideas are usually usually exist in the zeitgeist because of the philosopher in question, meaning they had the actual intelligence to go against the grain, where you are merely adopting ideas that are floating about. And secondly (and much more importantly) to conflate your thought with the philosophers would be like saying wouldn't it be cool if we went to the moon, then after America having gotten to the moon claiming the amount of genius on your part is equal to the engineers and mathematicians you actually got us there. There is in reality only the vaguest similarity. The idea itself is impressive because it is thought out in a systematic way, far up and beyond anything you will ever do. The way the consider how this idea fits into their world view, how to defend it against the prevailing ideas of the time and how it changes other ideas is what makes the idea impressive.

>>8262825

>tfw my prose style is an influencer of the board's counterculture of engaged /lit/erati, whereas you are but a garden-variety memester thinking himself important for applying basic memetic principles to a small community

shut up

Haiku is not just
Some stupid 4chan mee-mee
You little faggot

>>8262661
I see what you did
It it rather amusing
Now take this free (You).

The rat priest section is the best

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>>8262602
>mfw reading the rat priest section

>>8262554
i liked that part.

>>8262546
Is this your first peek into Rome? What are you hoping to get out of the venture?

Both these works are extremely long and at least partially outdated/eclipsed by modern archaeology and the rediscovery of more primary sources. That's not to say they're not valuable, but if this is your first step, it would be an extremely and perhaps overly ambitious one.

Livy's "History of Rome". A book about the history of Rome written by an actual Roman.

>>8262869
A great read for sure, but misses a ton of material. Only covers ~753-290 and 218-167.

Absolutely worth reading, and a lot of fun, but useless for anyone interested in the empire. All depends on what OP is interested in, specifically.

my name is calvino

>>8261995
>What are your thoughts on Calvino?
Very yes
> What books have you read by him?
Cosmicomics, Italian Folktales, If on a winter's night, Barone rampante, Cloven viscount, Invisible Cities...?

Candy so nice it declines itself in every flavour I can't say no to

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>>8261995
I've read the ones I own (pic related). I love Calvino. He's brilliant, hilarious, kind, and poetic. Start with Palomar, and then do Invisible Cities, Winter's Night, and Castle.

Life experience is indeed reflected in what you write and how you write it.

Unless you're writing fantasy/sci-fi/horror/etc., life experience is pretty important, OP.

>>8261919
Hes right. If you have been a shut in NEET your whole life, you probably have no interesting or novel insights on the human condition.

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>>8261910
Clearly this functions to inform any potential partners of the tattooed's inclination towards madness rather than wisdom.

>>8261910
Is that an arm or a torso?

tattoos are for degenerates

Great Expectations.

>>8261685
Far from the Madding Crowd

Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed

This is the italian text that the current Pope asks engaged couples to read before they get married—it is a tale of love that fights

Was Chesterton catholic?

Graham Greene

Anne Rice

>>8261478
Yes.

shit hack derivative same

>>8261363
derivative of who specifically?

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>>8261365

Been reading Naked Lunch on the bus lately. It's that Grove Press edition with the really obnoxious, colorful covers with the distressed font and shit. I always feel like I just came from my little sister's book fair holding that ostentatious piece of shit. Wicked book, but I feel like a chode showing the world that cover, mang.

While I think that "don't judge a book by it's cover" is somewhat true, once I already know that the book is good I just wanna have the copy with the sickest looking cover.

I only buy the Arena copies of De Sade so I can sit out the front of a primary school reading them