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>reading translations
>not learning the author's language
>not meticulously remodeling your domicile to authentically replicate the living situations of the author when he wrote the work
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>>8600696
this reminds me of the /vr/ users who play on a crt, with original hardware, and make their senile mothers drive them to the store to get the genuine sensation of being a kid in the 90s and getting and buying a new videogame.
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>>8601167
This is a thing?
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>>8600696
>he doesn't dig up the authors corpse to have sex with it
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>>8601167
CRTs are objectively way better though, especially for retro gaming.
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>not learning pre-reform Russian
>not going through female hormone treatment
>not doing plastic surgery to perfectly resemble Mrs Tolstoy
>not developing and using a time-machine to go back to mid-19th century Russia
>not killing without a trace the future Mrs Tolstoy
>not seducing Leon and marrying him, losing your virginity in the process
>not becoming his personal scribe
>not putting down on paper 6 different versions of War and Peace as he dictates them
>not getting the joke on "mir" and knowing that he actually meant "world"
>not witnessing every hesitation in the dictation of his philosophical musings
>not understanding those aren't hesitations but profound appreciation of wondrous ideas
>not feeling an infinite sadness at your inability to be and understand the beautiful mind that shares your bed
It's like you guys don't even want to read properly
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>not becoming a devout Christian and living in extreme poverty while reading Les Miserables
>not committing murder and robbery while going through a mental breakdown while reading Crime & Punishment
>not playing tennis while reading Infinite Jest
>not hunting your own archnemesis whale while reading Moby DIck
>not killing yourself while reading The Human Condition
>not getting falsely accused of a crime you didn't commit (do this before C&P) while reading The Trial
>not psychologically and sexually dominating the life of your step-daughter while reading Lolita (see above)
>not disregarding your own mother's death while reading The Stranger
In my opinion, not putting yourself in the mentality of the book is like barely reading it at all. In other words, you're a fucking pleb.
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