>tfw you take a break from reading realists, realist-modernists,

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>tfw smart enough to understand DFW but still to stupid to understand "ye olde English"

These are the thing that literature does
It makes our hopes come alive, our imagination.
Savouring all the emotions contained within.

All the other stuff is bleak and talks about the way it is and how it will never change constantly changing.

True. Shakespeare will always be the greatest.

>>9474471
Is english your first language?

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>>9474515

yes

>>9474515
Not the other anon, but yes

>>9474462
Time for Chaucer and Milton

>tfw I haven't read Shakespeare or the bible
>Herman Melville is my favourite author and most of it probably goes over my head

>>9475555
Quads

>>9474639
>Not the other anon
..............................so stupid I can't even laugh

>>9475529
Good picks.

>>9475555
Yeah how are you gonna get dem slick references brah

Seriously this is the stupidest obsession

>>9475720
allusion is an important part of literature, especially a book like Moby Dick which is full of it