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>open Harry Potter: The First One.pdf
>ctrl+f: "stretched his legs"
>457 results
mfw

>> No.8402480

>Open DH Lawrence's Son and Lovers
>Ctrl f said
>1638 results

>> No.8402482

he had to stretch his legs, what's your problem?

>> No.8402486 [DELETED] 
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8402486

>open The Sublime Object of Ideology
>ctrl+f: "ergo"
>457 results
mfw

>> No.8402493

>open Dune.pdf
>ctrl+f "betrayed"
>358 results

>> No.8402496
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8402496

>open up any book
>ctrl f: "the"
>8000 results
mfw

>> No.8402519
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8402519

>>8402465
>open Sons and Lovers
>ctrl+f: "flowers"
>900 results
mfw

>> No.8402524

>>8402465
>open Ulysses.pdf
>ctrl+f fart
>100000000 results

>> No.8402525
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8402525

>open Infinite Jest
>ctrl+f: discernible talent
>0 results
mfw

>> No.8402541

>>8402525
kek

>> No.8402543

>>8402525
R O A S T E D

>> No.8402574

>>8402525
#SHOTSFIRED

>> No.8402595
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8402595

>Open Yukio Mishima anthology
>ctrl+f: harakiri
>1 result
mfw

>> No.8402600

>open boards.4chan.org/pol/
>ctrl+f "cuck"
>error

>> No.8402607

>>8402525
DELETE THIS

>> No.8402616

Hey memers! What should I spend my two audible credits on?

>> No.8402636

Underrated thread.

>> No.8402640

>>8402616
The Stand
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo

>> No.8402655

>open kierkegaard complete works.pdf
>ctrl+f sex
>0 results

>> No.8402673

>>8402465
>open Moby Dick
>ctrl+f "."
>0 results

>> No.8402689

>open Blood Meridian
>ctrl+f spat
>153 results

>> No.8402692

>open Blood Meridian
>ctrl+f "and"
>26990 results

>> No.8402702
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8402702

>open schopenhauer
>ctrl+f pringles
>432 results

>> No.8402711

>open Finneganswake.pdf
>ctrl:f + *smash face on keyboard repeatedly*
>5 results

>> No.8402750
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8402750

>open dictionary.pdf
>ctrl+f "face with tears of joy emoji"
>1 result

>> No.8402763

>>8402750
Darn you really pulled a Gregory Berrycone and ruined the fucking thread, thank fuck you you

>> No.8402782

>>8402763
>Gregory Berrycone
this is some next level memeing

>> No.8402838

>>8402763
who is Gregory Berrycone?

>> No.8402843
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8402843

>>8402525
[Perspiration Intensifies]

>> No.8402863

>>8402838

You didn't get an advance reading copy? There was a thread. . .

>> No.8402865

>>8402863
you were supposed to pretend to be the guy

>> No.8402881
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8402881

>>8402525

>> No.8403273
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8403273

>>8402465

>open a Harry Potter book
>ctrl+f: "beamed"
>1,036 results

>> No.8403277

>>8402750

Kek.

>Open Infinite Jest.
>ctrl+f: "had had"
>3,845 results.

>> No.8403371

bump

>> No.8403376

>>8402838
>1016
>Not knowing Grogory Berrycone
Just leave

>> No.8403398

>>8403376
>1016
1016
101
10
1
What the fuck have you done nigger.

>> No.8403441
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8403441

>Open House of Leaves
>ctrl+f:
>>>/h/
>>>/o/
>>>/u/
>>>/s/
>>>/e/
>20 results

mfw

>> No.8403531
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8403531

>>8402525
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKCKCKCKKK

>> No.8403545

>Open a book by Cormac McCarthy
>ctrl+f: ","
>0 results

>> No.8403555

There's actually zero results for "stretched his legs" in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
I fell for the meme.

>> No.8403571
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>>8402525
D E L E T E
E
L
E
T
E

>> No.8404094
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8404094

>Open Stoner
>ctrl+f: "Stoner"
>457 results
mfw

>> No.8404115

>>8404094
>not 420 results
mfw

>> No.8404126

>>8402525
It's all over. We got 'em.

>> No.8404131

>>8402465
0 actual results

>>8403273
2 actual results

gee i think some hyperbole is going on

>> No.8404134
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8404134

>>8402525
N O R E C O V E R Y

>> No.8404259

>>8402655
Literally triggered.

>> No.8404880

>>8402525
rude

>> No.8404952

>>8402782
>spotted the pleb.

>> No.8404957

>>8402838
This : >>8404952
Was meant at you.
You pleb.

>> No.8404961

>>8402525
I hope the ghost of dfw spooks you for this

>> No.8404965

>>8402525
seems right

>> No.8404988

>>8402525
THE MADMAN

>> No.8405017
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8405017

>open /lit/
>ctrl + f
>"intelligent discussion"
>0 results

>> No.8405057

>>8402524
Underrated

>> No.8405080
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8405080

>open up the book that's influenced you the most
>ctrl + f "spooks"
>10,000 results

>> No.8405105

>open bible
>ctrl+f `bcuz god want dat way lol`
>5550000 results

>> No.8405159

>>8405080
it's acctualy 50 results.

>> No.8405180

>>8402465
How tall is Harry by the end anyway?

>> No.8405189

>>8403273
Did Rowling have Star Trek on in the background while writing?

>> No.8406481
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8406481

>>8402465

>Open Finnegan's Wake.pdf
>crtl+f "kekek"
>387278423784623 results
mfw

>> No.8406738

>>8402525
DELETE THIS

>> No.8407456

>opet Absalom, Absalom
>Ctrl f it's like he could see them
>330 results
Faulkner, more like Trashner

>> No.8407541
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8407541

>open up this thread.leebinmeme
Lfw

>> No.8408224

>open Gravity's Rainbow
>ctrl+f: "banana"
>10000 results

>> No.8408264

>>8402843
oh come on. call his writing shit if you will, but don't mock his perspiration problem. dude had terrible anxiety.

>> No.8408319

>>8408264
>>>/t/umblr

>> No.8408335

>>8402616
Hard Luck Hank, books one and two.

>> No.8408350

>>8402525
W E W L A D
E
W
L
A
D

>> No.8409551

>>8402525
how will dfw recover?

>> No.8409552

>>8409551
He can't, he might as well just off himself.

>> No.8409782

>Open Carpenter's Gothic
>ctrl+f "I mean"
>1726 results

>> No.8409918

>Open Gulliver's travels
>ctrl+f "excuse"
>98257 results

>> No.8410588

>>8402465
>things fall apart
>ctrl+f "yams"
> 5000 results
>

>> No.8411116

>>8410588
Pretty good, friendo.

>> No.8412524
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8412524

>Open At he Mountains of Madness
>Ctrl f cyclopean
>572 results
More like H.P Lovetrash

>> No.8412563

>>8402524
If that's even remotely true, then I'm not reading Ulysses or Finnegan's wake. Ive already finished Dubliners and I'm on portrait

>> No.8412574

>>8412563
Good riddance considering yoi can't even be bothered to learn the titles.

>> No.8412833

>>8412574
Who is yoi?

>> No.8412845
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8412845

>>8404131
yep

>> No.8412852

>>8411116
ive never even read the book.

>> No.8412856

>>8402711
Try dsfargeg

>> No.8412869

>>8403398
>1016
>wissan nat Gregorius Berrichon
fle thu feond

>> No.8412876

>>8402838
looks like someone doesn't read postmodern novellas

>> No.8413017

>>8402673
hey you motherfucker

>> No.8413323

>>8412852
this is /lit/, no one assumed you had

>> No.8413357

>>8402465
>Open A Farewell to Arms.pdf
>ctrl+f: "rain"
>100 results

>> No.8413371

>>8405080
To which of Stirner's books are you referring?

>> No.8413402

>>8402525
infinite kek

>> No.8413455

>>8402525
David Franzen Wallgreen on suicide watch.

>> No.8413477

>>8402525
it's all ogre

>> No.8413484

>>8402838

a character in my unpublished absurdist novella about a man who wakes up one morning with a mysterious plastic knob on the back of his head.

>> No.8413498

>>8413484
a minor character

>> No.8413676

>open For Whom The Bell Tolls
>ctrl+f: "Qué va"
>452345 results
>ctrl+f: "I obscenity in the milk"
>34189 results

>> No.8413866
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8413866

>>8402525

>> No.8414091

>Open The Portrait of Dorian Grey
>ctrl f "lounged languidly"
>10000 results

>> No.8414112
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8414112

>Open The catcher in the Rye pdf
>ctrl + f phony
>5734 results

>> No.8414113

>>8413498
polish?

>> No.8414146

>>8402525
Beat me to it

>> No.8414151

>>8402525
Beat off to it

>> No.8414247
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8414247

>open any Pirandello
>ctrl+f ,
>4340 results

>> No.8414254

>>8414113
No the plastic is quite course

>> No.8414258

>>8402838
how do you not know GB?

>> No.8414264

>>8414146
Ya, by four days. Excellent post.

>> No.8414270
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8414270

>open A Brief History of Time.pdf
>ctrl+f: "6,000,000,000"
>0 results

confirmed.

>> No.8414541

>>8413357
>Not cognac
It's like you didn't even want to be funny

>> No.8414548
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8414548

>Maxed out the score on an actual IQ test that only measured up to 135.
>Get 116 on this test.
Welp.

>> No.8414559

>>8414548
>Post in the wrong thread.
>Look like even more of a retard.
Okay I'm done, bye world.

>> No.8414715
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8414715

>open The Gallic War
>ctrl+f: "corn"
>1 result

>> No.8414889

>>8402595
Because he uses the term seppuku

>> No.8414906

>>8412869

golden keks

>> No.8415925

>>8402525
Someone cap this with zoomed words and shit.

>> No.8415939

>>8402525
>>8402838
This thread is fucking great.

>> No.8415956

>>8402465
>open Blooms collected works
>Ctrl+F: "muh universal british quality
>9001 matches

>> No.8416133

>>8402465
I checked and she actually only uses the expression "stretch his legs" (or any variation of that) once.

Quit memeing you drat kids

>> No.8416181

>>8416133
reddit

>> No.8416598

>>8416181
this

>>8416133
faggot

>> No.8416733
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8416733

>>8402525
I couldn't finish the thread after this post

>> No.8416738
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8416738

>>8402525

>> No.8417449

>>8402525
sheeeeeeeeit

>> No.8417468
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8417468

>open Ireland: A Brief History.epub
>crtl+f ''potatoes''
>no potatoes
>mfw

>> No.8417477

>open The Rise and Fall of Harambe
>ctrl+f "I'm Rick Harrison and this is my pawnshop. I work here with my old man, and my son, Big Hosss Everything here has a story and a price. But one thing I've learned in 23 years, you'll never know who's gonna come through that door."
>8 results

>> No.8417504

>>8402673
>Open Moby Dick
>ctrl+f "Now let me digress and copy this Encyclopedia article"
>Whole book

>> No.8417506

>>8417477
Woah great memeing. This is /lit/

>> No.8417544
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8417544

>>8417468
>open Scotland: A Brief History.epub
>crtl+f ''briefs''
>no underpants
>mfw

>> No.8417559
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8417559

>open The Sun Also Rises.epub
>ctrl+f "kike"
>88 results

>> No.8417566

>>8403545
underrated.

>> No.8418212

>open "The Complete Work of H.P Lovecraft"
>ctrl+f "nigger"
>8540 results

based

>> No.8418450
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8418450

>>8417477
Genuinely hilarious tbqh

>> No.8418454

>>8416733
>filename

>> No.8418485

>open My Struggle
>ctrl+f: "Jews"
>88 results

whoah

>> No.8418772
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8418772

>>8402525

>> No.8419426

>>8402525
Wardine be cry

>> No.8420038

I can't let this thread die

>> No.8420474

>open War and Peace.pdf
>ctrl+f "lofty blue sky"
>534 results

>> No.8420506
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8420506

>>8402525

>> No.8420654

>open Harry Potter 1
>ctrl f "read"
>116 results

>> No.8420668
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8420668

>open /lit/
>ctrl-f "stupid fucking meme threads"
>ober 9000++1 results fammy
>such frog feelings my dudes

>> No.8420670

>>8403555
>Her prose style, heavy on cliche, makes no demands upon her readers. In an arbitrarily chosen single page -- page 4 -- of the first Harry Potter book, I count seven cliches, all of the "stretch his legs" variety.
He's bashing a type of cliche, not quoting a specific phrase.

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>>8420668

>> No.8421793
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>>8402525

>> No.8423299

>>8421793
This isn't /m/, no Evangelion reference here >:I

>> No.8423335

>Open Illiad.png
>ctrl f "Aegis-Bearing Jove"
>500 results

Homer was a hack.

>> No.8423352

>>8412845
>sorcerer's
get the fuck out

>> No.8423368

>Open The Lord of the Rings.pdf
>ctrl+f: "steep slope"
>1349 results

>> No.8423776
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8423776

>>8402525

>> No.8423802

Can somebody do this with Gravity's Rainbow and the word "balloon" ?

>> No.8423816

>>8423802
>80085 results
Woah

>> No.8423819
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>>8402525

>> No.8425753

>>8402525
**Harold Blotter and the Infinite Jest** when?