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ouch, checkmate

thanks for playing

>>7353588
you mean Shakespeare? sure why not

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not even close friend.

>>7353537
Can't watch past the first 15 seconds.

made it a minute

good lord

Didn't they write an article some years ago about how they thought Kanye West genuinely could not read?

>you will never be as smooth and handsome as Joyce

big boss?

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>you will never shag his daughter

>>7353448
Pynchon, Wolfe, McCarthy

>>7353451
>All white cis males.
*yawn*

>>7353482
It's not their problem they're good, white and male. Step up your game, cretin.

I am going to reveal something to you OP. It is a little fragment of wisdom grown over a long period of time. I have fed it well, it is healthy and stable. In dealing with such matters as improving one's English prose, or knowledge of English prose, this little fragment has proven its worth. Prepare yourself, you need to be in the correct frame of mind to receive it. Are you ready? Okay.

Read more English Prose. You can now delete the thread and leave your computer. Happy to help, there is no need to thank me.

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>>7353414
What do you think the King James Bible is?

>>7353460
>Read more English Prose

FUCK

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>>7353349

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Intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor

>>7353342
>>>/r/eddit
>>>/trash/
>>>/lgbt/

>>7353345
you forgot
>>>/his/
>>>/pol/

>>7353342
Definitely. He clearly destroyed Chomsky. An absolute genius. Indeed, he is a miracle.

Mold

looks like heat or stress discoloration, but i don't know. what did you do to it? Go ask /g/.

That's a pretty rad effect.

>>7353222
Oh wow, Trips! The Gods of Get have truly blessed my endeavour!
Part 2/3:
I sat down on the bank to enjoy this unexpected voluptuous treat, when
suddenly I was startled by a breathless exclamation of: "That's my
book! Oh, give it me back, Sir; I must have dropped it as I passed
along here, a short time ago, and ran back to find it."

"Your book, Miss. I was just looking to see if there was any address in
it, when I saw what it was about. Excuse my looking, it was done quite
innocently, and your secret is safe with me."

Realising at once the shame of the thing, she gasped for breath,
flushed crimson, and then turning pale as death, fell fainting at my
feet, before I could catch her in my arms.

Reclining her against the mossy bank upon which I had been sitting, I
rubbed and chafed her hands, squeezing her fingers quite painfully, in
order to bring her to herself, but for several minutes without success,
as there was no chance to obtain either water or brandy in such a place.

Presently she murmured "Fuck me! Shove in into me! I want it all--I
must have it now;" and a succession of bawdy expressions, quite
shocking from the lips of such a young girl, as she could not be more
than seventeen, at most.

It was incredible she could be so depraved, but it seemed a striking
confirmation of what a doctor once told me, viz, that even the most
virtuous girls often use frightfully obscene words, when recovering
from a fainting fit.

Anyhow, I resolved not to take advantage of her, and behave honourably
to her.

Fucking Whiteknight!
Part 3/3:

As she came round a little she opened her eyes with the question: "Oh!
where am I?" And catching sight of me holding her hands so tightly, all
her shame returned to her in quite an overwhelming sense, and bursting
into tears, she cried so bitterly, it was a long time before I could
reassure her.

Promising to keep the secret of her book, I only asked one thing, and
that was that she would not avoid me, and allow me to see her again.

This of course led to a close friendship between us; I lent her a
variety of voluptuous books, and she let me have the manuscript to copy
for my printer, but would not impart to me how she came by it, saying:
"Some day, perhaps, after I am married, then I will let you Fuck me,
and tell you all; it will not be long, my wedding is fixed to come off
in two months time; I'm a virgin and mean to be so till I have my
husband, but have to thank your forbearance that dreadful day when, you
found my book, and did not take advantage of the situation. I both
respect and love you for it."

She would permit me every familiarity but the one thing. We Frigged,
Sucked, and enjoyed every other pleasure, both abroad, and in my own
rooms, where she would visit me, having perfect liberty, living with an
old nurse of hers; so not a soul in the place knew anything about
either of us.

When we parted it was, "Au Revoir," and some day I may have more to
tell.

Main part, Part 1/?:

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

How well I remember my early days, almost to babyhood when it was
always the care of my beautiful mother to bath me herself every day;
there was also Mary my nursemaid, but when Mamma had to be away at any
time the supervision of my bath was delegated to her sister. Auntie
Gertie, a pretty girl of sixteen or seventeen.

Till six or seven years of age I slept in a cot in my parents' own
bed-room. Papa was a very dark fine handsome man, Mamma equally so, or
much more beautiful to me, had lovely golden hair and deep blue eyes
full of love for me in every glance.

I can just remember one day when Mary and Auntie Gertie were giving me
my bath, I thought they were looking at my little spout, as I said
saucily: "What are you looking at, Papa has got such a big one."

Amongst the tricks I used to play on my nurse was one of suddenly
running up to her and raising her skirts in fun, so one day when Mamma
was bathing me, I suddenly said, "Mamma dear, Mary has such a lot of
hair at the bottom of her belly;" making the poor girl blush crimson,
as she explained my tricks to Mamma.

Another time to Auntie Gertie: "You should see my Papa hug my Mamma
like a bear in bed."

After this my cot was removed to the nursery, as Master Percy was
getting too observant.

>Is he worth reading at all?
No, he's a retarded anarchist.

But then again, "retarded anarchist" is a tautology.

>>7353207
It's a very appreciated work from young adults and teenagers that actually read but that's it, in general he is taught in schools so that's why most people get interested in him IF they get interested in him, mainly because they will be transitioning from kids to angsty faggots so seeing that special snowflake of a faggot of Wilde turns them on, other than that he is pretty forgettable.

>>7353231
this.

>>7353206
Yeah? Where do you guys keep your personal salvation?

>That feel when you printed out the last 5 years of /lit/ and had it bound into a book you read every night by the fireplace

>>7353343
What the fuck? If you're serious do you have a pic?

Start with the Greeks.

>>7353031

You'll be infinitely glad you did.

>>7353031
only you can know
give it a shot

I don't know honestly but I thought it was neat to read NL and then read Queer and see the weirdness in its embryonic form.

>>7352846

Definitely agree. Junky was really straight forward and I thought Queer would be the same. I think on its own Queer wouldn't be that great, but reading it knowing the context, and knowing how the style would later develop was pretty cool.

Patti Smith was so fucking hot, goddamn.

shitty peter pan rip off

>>7352835
>reading for fun

>>7352840
This is my point.

>>7352784

I haven't read Infinite Jest, but didn't the movie in the book last long enough for the watchers to die of starvation? As opposed to just watching it multiple times.

>>7352784
thanks for the chuckle op

moving on

There's something really sad and banal about that.