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>>9607018
Not a very interesting thread senpai.

>>9607029

If you'd read the book you would understand.

>>9607018
butthurt tranny detected

>>9606686
that's the pleasure of it, isn't it? they're little puzzleboxes to open up. nothing so hard that you can't figure it out with a bit of effort. just sometimes nice to go through such little mental exercises. plus it's worth it for how neat some of his ideas are.

Many of the crazy-seeming twists of fate or cruelties have some basis in history. So Ficciones = Fictions but a lot of these "Fictions" have a foot in reality.

Sorry, this post probably doesn't address your problem at all.

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Can always try some of his other stuff first too.

>>9606685
poetry is shit anyways, i'm glad this meme is finally dying

>>9606747
> I am a textbook example of OP's post.

my diary desu

>>9606062
you expected me to tell you
to start with the greeks?

it's a homosexual code

>>9605932
heh, aren't you meta? so butthurt that you would pretend to be me by using my callsign of lacking capitalization, and attempt character assassination by creating this thread with subpar criticism.
*slow claps*

>>9605942
a schizoid in its natural environment

>>9605932
I like the setting. The use of odd words to describe things is fun if you like learning new words or seeing rarely used ones presented.

Can you provide some closer examples of what you did and didn't like?

>>9605696
please don't read it. it's trash.

>>9605696
Back then children could not afford books, so writers wrote for people with better short term memories.

I don't know /lit/ too well but it seams like 19th century writers preferred clauses to sentences.

Dickens is a master of it. As far as I can tell the lack of inflection in English makes clausing a critical component of writing, and should one wish to carry on in a manner such as this, I should only caution that they might exhaust the reader, which reader, if he is modern, is especially susceptible to getting bored without the consistent arrival of full stops at an expected pace which matches his haphazard attention,short of challenging his mind by constructing sentences that undulate and flow, flow past the peaks and hollows of the finite realm it normally traverses on its way to the oceanic bliss of comprehension, causing him to earn his salt-water through a careful, long flow with many turns and meanders, nonetheless making its course as any river does.

>>9605535
>look at all mu books pls
>im soo smart XDDD

>>9605434
Put Boccaccio in the white famalamadingdong.

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>>9605434
EMPSON
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>>9605434
Frye

>>9605407
It's almost like you're not meant to

>>9605407
No.

Slow down. Do your research. Don't listen to the "don't worry about understanding everything" meme.

>>9605417
What type of research would you recommend? I'm already like 400 pages in btw

he would write the divine comedy

>>9605398
Isn't that book just an edge fest self insert fan fiction? Next.

ebin fantasy op

translations being bad is a meme. italian monks living in monasteries read translations of the greeks and derived far more pleasure and meaning than we can with our annotated editions and scholarship

just fucking read it

>>9605121
anyone else got better justification than "it's a meme"?

>>9605544
Well if you're that concerned about it learn mideval Italian.

>>9604126
You dun goofed if you're a stalinfag.

>>9604126
Conservatism is useless. Just read NRx.

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>Buying subscriptions to newspapers or magazines in 2017
What are you, retarded?

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>>9603881

>>9603881
That's Rodya from C&P

>>9603881
goddamnit i havent seen that pic for years. Like 5 years. i never wanted to see it again

>>9603394
because it's immediately and unabashedly human, and for all our refinements, that which connects us is raunchy sharts in public situations.

>be a scholar and a monk
>aristotle, plato, the bible, quote it with ease
>"flibber-jibbet humungous dicks!"
Very good, Rabelais. Very good.

Butts and dongs are pretty funny.

>>9603381
you sure that's what he said? sometimes it seems like he has a sock in his mouth so it's hard to tell. perhaps he was talking about the effect of Denny's grand slam after a night of drinking on the psyche?

>>9603386
I wouldn't be surprised, He is always making up paradoxes, even if it makes no sense.

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>>9603381
Link to the whole thing pls.