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2016-10-02 00:44:10 Post No. 8572921
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:44:10 Post No. 8572921 [Report]
What is the most beautiful book ever written?
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:46:34 Post No.8572928
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:46:34 Post No.8572928 [Report]
>>8572921
The Silmarillion.

It's like The Bible but with better prose and a deeper mythology.
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« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » (ID: !!Srz2lnO/STC) 2016-10-02 00:51:40 Post No.8572946
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« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » (ID: !!Srz2lnO/STC) 2016-10-02 00:51:40 Post No.8572946 [Report]
>>8572921
I saw images like this one in the pages of Water Pater's Marius the Epicurean.
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:53:08 Post No.8572950
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:53:08 Post No.8572950 [Report]
My diarrhea desu
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:56:17 Post No.8572957
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 00:56:17 Post No.8572957 [Report]
The Iliad, in my opinion
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:33:19 Post No.8573090
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:33:19 Post No.8573090 [Report]
>>8572928
>memefantasy
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:34:05 Post No.8573091
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:34:05 Post No.8573091 [Report]
>>8572950
gross
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:35:41 Post No.8573098
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:35:41 Post No.8573098 [Report]
>>8572928
>boring lists and random neckbeard fantasy miscellanea
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:36:44 Post No.8573102
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 01:36:44 Post No.8573102 [Report]
my diary, tbqhwyf
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 04:45:57 Post No.8573784
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 04:45:57 Post No.8573784 [Report]
>>8572921
Émaux et Camées by Théophile Gautier
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:29:50 Post No.8574020
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:29:50 Post No.8574020 [Report]
Mein Tagebuch, um ganz ehrlich zu sein famalamadingdong.
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:34:34 Post No.8574032
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:34:34 Post No.8574032 [Report]
>>8572921

Zettels Traum, the superior Finnegans Wake.
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:36:14 Post No.8574035
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:36:14 Post No.8574035 [Report]
Stoner.
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:38:30 Post No.8574038
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>>8572921
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:45:53 Post No.8574054
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:45:53 Post No.8574054 [Report]
>>8572921

Dhalgren
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:50:09 Post No.8574067
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 06:50:09 Post No.8574067 [Report]
>>8574032
>getting meme'd into that easily computer generated shit
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:42:06 Post No.8574179
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:42:06 Post No.8574179 [Report]
>>8572921
The New Testament
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:45:26 Post No.8574183
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:45:26 Post No.8574183 [Report]
>>8572921
The Bible
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:52:39 Post No.8574196
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 07:52:39 Post No.8574196 [Report]
>>8572921
Mein Kampf
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 13:24:46 Post No.8574797
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 13:24:46 Post No.8574797 [Report]
The Man Who Planted Trees.
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 14:22:22 Post No.8574922
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 14:22:22 Post No.8574922 [Report]
>>8574196
more like Mein Menstural Krampf ;^)
m i rite???
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 16:56:26 Post No.8575367
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 16:56:26 Post No.8575367 [Report]
>>8574922
nein
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 16:59:48 Post No.8575373
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 16:59:48 Post No.8575373 [Report]
>>8572928
>deepest lore
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 18:13:58 Post No.8575555
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 18:13:58 Post No.8575555 [Report]
>>8572921
Maldoror
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 18:22:01 Post No.8575589
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 18:22:01 Post No.8575589 [Report]
>>8572928
I second that, brilliant book.

Surprised there is no cult yet
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Anonymous 2016-10-02 19:16:10 Post No.8575786
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 02:07:23 Post No.8577256
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 02:07:23 Post No.8577256 [Report]
>>8574038
Reading this now, comfiest of all time
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 11:12:49 Post No.8578344
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 11:12:49 Post No.8578344 [Report]
Define beautiful
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:46:57 Post No.8578643
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:46:57 Post No.8578643 [Report]
>>8572950
Go away Zone theorist
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:49:54 Post No.8578654
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:49:54 Post No.8578654 [Report]
>>8578344
Read Portrait. Joyce rants about it
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:50:27 Post No.8578656
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:50:27 Post No.8578656 [Report]
my avant-garde screenplays
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:52:21 Post No.8578661
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 13:52:21 Post No.8578661 [Report]
Sorrows of young werther
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 16:52:27 Post No.8579259
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 16:52:27 Post No.8579259 [Report]
>>8578654
I have
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 16:53:56 Post No.8579263
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 16:53:56 Post No.8579263 [Report]
Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:02:09 Post No.8579455
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:02:09 Post No.8579455 [Report]
Where THE fuck is Proust
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:23:33 Post No.8579526
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:23:33 Post No.8579526 [Report]
>>8579455
Yeah, just the first page of Swann's Way alone is some of the greatest prose ever put to paper.
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:25:40 Post No.8579532
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:25:40 Post No.8579532 [Report]
>>8579526
I'm reading this right now in English. It's super rambly and doesn't seem beautiful at all. Is it more beautiful in French?
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:26:15 Post No.8579535
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:26:15 Post No.8579535 [Report]
>>8572921
Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:29:01 Post No.8579547
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:29:01 Post No.8579547 [Report]
>>8579532
agreed, proust put me to sleep
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:37:28 Post No.8579577
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:37:28 Post No.8579577 [Report]
Emerson's Nature
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:47:55 Post No.8579626
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Anonymous 2016-10-03 18:47:55 Post No.8579626 [Report]
mein tagebuch, zse
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 01:12:46 Post No.8580833
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 01:12:46 Post No.8580833 [Report]
>>8572957
Can you go into detail on why you think this?
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 01:23:12 Post No.8580864
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>>8572921
Moby-Dick.
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 09:15:12 Post No.8581968
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>>8572928
This.
I wish I could have met Tolkien and cry on his lap, telling him how much his work mean to me. But it'll never happen.
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 09:21:06 Post No.8581977
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>>8572921
The Letters of James Joyce
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 09:32:40 Post No.8581994
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 09:32:40 Post No.8581994 [Report]
>>8579532
You're asking if it's more beautiful in its original language ? Are you kidding ?
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