>Epigraph is in a different language than the language the

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600 pages of rhyming phrases ending with the sound r, sorted by syllables and alphabetized (No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96, 1997), everything he said for a week (Soliloquy, 2001), every move his body made during a thirteen-hour period (Fidget, 2000), a year of transcribed weather reports (The Weather, 2005) and one edition of The New York Times, September 1, 2000, transcribed as Day (2003).

>>8257384
oh wow you aren't shitting me

what the fuck

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especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem "lighght" and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".

>2016
Not reading in Greek, Latin, French, Italian and Esperanto.

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>>8257984
>2016
>reading Esperanto

>>8257338

>actually not knowing English, Old English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Sanskrit, and Hebrew

>>8257338

For the record OP, they only do this when the epigraph is so basically obvious or established by common usage that all but the most uneducated plebs can't figure it out

>>8258703
that sounds like confusing the cause and the effect

why write an epigraph that's completely obvious lmao

>>8257420
L I G H T
G
H
T

>>8257984
>he cant read german
my lord and saviour save me

>>8258699
you cant read Portuguese?

>that pic

oy vey

>>8258714
contributing to the wholeness of the work

>>8258865
What a pleb XDD

>>8258699

>2011+5
>not knowing dutch

absolutely disgusting

>>8258699
what about Old Church Slavonic?

>>8257338
Stephen Donaldson constantly using the word frangile instead of fragile

>>8260290
what about it droog?

learn Interslavic instead

Can someone explain what the purpose of an epigraph is? Surely the work should speak for itself. If you need to guide the reader to a certain idea or theme before you've even given them a word of your own, then aren't you a failure?

>>8261870

Can someone explain what the purpose of a title is? Surely the work should speak for itself. If you need to guide the reader to a certain idea or theme before you've even given them a word of your own, then aren't you a failure?

>>8257384
I do not like his beard.