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>he doesn't get the gold coin references

it's from a proto-hittite fable, aren't u familiar with pre-mosaic levantine folklore? stay pleb fag, joyce aint for u

>>8064233
before u go nuts googling ur head off, that was a joke, i don't know what the fuck it was about, the chick was a hooker, so probably something to do with fucking, but like dubliners basically sucks so who gives a shit

>>8064259
having to explain the joke ruins it, anon

A cult classic, I am informed.

*throws out manuscript*

Nothing new under the sun

What is it about?

Classic are already pleasant.

>>8064178
Classics*

People are at bottom concerned about self-identity. If you're here, you are invested in being superior. The culture here makes anyone who isn't leave.

Therefore no one will read or allows themselves to enjoy Dan Brown here, more or less by definition.

>>8064080
I have the penguin edition. Honestly, it isn't really literature in the sense that the prose matters. It's more of a random assortment of lessons Aurelius learned over his life.

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the version i just wrote, in which the word 'ass' can be used as shorthand for any idea or compound of ideas assigned to it:

ass

>>8064080
Pick up the Penguin Great Ideas one i'm reading it at the moment.

The translation isn't really important because it's just a series of aphorisms that he coined over the years.

>God is Dead
Can you show us his corpse?

>>8063977
>le timid frenchman.jpg
Why though?

>>8063999
I buried it inside your mama sweet pussy, faggot.

Also, nice trips.

Finnegans Wake

Lolita

>>8063890
Have her read the entire Genesis and pray to God to fix her retardation.

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>>8063795
it just means you aren't a normie

Stupid people get embarrassed when they don't understand words, so they lash out verbally.

Show them that you perceive this and laugh pitilessly at the clumsy attempt to mask their shame.

If you are not intentionally doing it in an attempt to appear more intellectual or intelligent, it is not, by definition, pretentious. Friends and students of mine occassionally call me pretentious because of my word choice or how I pronounce things, but I just believe in being deliberate and precise with my word choice and I think my sometimes seemingly odd pronunciations are a result of an accent that is influenced by my family being from one region, growing up in another, and spending a significant amount of time in a third before recently moving back to where I grew up.

I actually had to show my students that culinary can be pronounced "CUE-lin-ary", for example. At the same time, I'll use "y'all" in informal conversations because I spent a lot of time in the deep south.

Tl;dr: who gives a fuck what they think as long as you aren't actively trying to seem like you're superior. Do you.

Borges in Europe, really?

>>8063703
>Anatole France
dans mon pays, cet homme, il n'est rien.

>>8063703
English should be
>David Foster Wallace
>George R.R. Martin
>Stephen King
>George Orwell
>Thomas Pynchon

agatha christie

Hijacking OP's thread to ask:
Has anyone read Raymond Chandler here, is he good?

>>8063511
Vonnegut is my go-to author for light reads.

eh I only know the major transcendentalists and Rachel Carson, but I've enjoyed what I've read. Parts of Walden were obnoxious

>>8063290
Nature is a spook

>>8063290
Not really.

Society has become massively more urbanised over the past century, so we've lost that connection to nature which is important in nature writing (e.g. nature poetry, which used to be a huge genre of verse).

Try to write something like Tintern Abbey nowadays and it just comes off as archaic.

Do it

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>>8063283
This, just mark some time every day and read for a set block, after a while it'll be like brushing your teeth (assuming you do that either)

>>8063002
maybe he was awed by the genius of the line

Only pseuds don't pause at the end of the lines. Words are ugly as fuck, and they only sound nice if you emphasize the meter.

>>8063002
Because they don't know how to read poetry?

But yeah, people have told me the same thing when I read verse.

I really, really, really, really, really, really want to fuck Asian girls

'shoes'

things you have written

You just KNOW.

I have a standard poodle and can confirm it is too small to fuck.

>>8062865
...for you