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What's the best-written fight scene you've ever read? Can be based on any criteria you want; most realistic, most eloquent, most vivid, whatever.

>> No.11028210

Diomedes fights the Gods
Or
One of the whaling scenes in Moby-Dick

>> No.11028273

>>11028157
That volcano shootout in Blood Meridian was pretty dense

>> No.11028324

In Blood Meridian I really like that volcano scene >>11028273 and the part where Holden is chasing the Kid and the Priest through the desert.
The airplane vs. hot air balloon cream pie fight in Gravity's Rainbow.
Achilles fighting the river in the Iliad, LOL get out of the water Achilles, you fucking retard.

>> No.11028339

Doctrines of pythagoras

>> No.11028962

Iliad battle scenes are pretty visceral

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>>11028339
you motherfucker

>> No.11029257

Not so much a fight, but Quilty's death in Lolita was very bizarre to me and I remember it better than most of the book

>> No.11029484

>>11028324
>>11028273
I fucking love the Volcano shootout.

>> No.11029511

unironically gately vs the canucks in infinite jest

>> No.11029538

>>11029257
fucking spoiler that shit

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>>11028157
The Dutch 74 Waakzaamheid chasing the Surprise through the Southern Ocean in Desolation Island.

So vivid I feel like I lived it. I remember it more vividly than many of my own memories.

>> No.11029577

>>11029511
Came to post this

nice dubs

>> No.11030531

>>11028157
i liked the knife fight in the prison in All the Pretty Horses. Felt very kinetic and went on for about as long as possible without it feeling too long.