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Anonymous Sat May 6 23:43:15 2017 No.9474462 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you take a break from reading realists, realist-modernists, modernists and postmodernists and read Shakespeare and KJV for a few months
>attempt to go back to what I was reading before, and it all just seems like a heap of dogshit now

Seriously, nothing can compete with Shakespeare and KJV.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 23:45:18 2017 No.9474471 File: 12 KB, 200x240, 9b7d672b081bc1c1a0d1e482a8693655.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw smart enough to understand DFW but still to stupid to understand "ye olde English"

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 23:50:06 2017 No.9474487 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.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 23:56:36 2017 No.9474500 True. Shakespeare will always be the greatest.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 00:01:53 2017 No.9474515 >>9474471 Is english your first language?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 00:12:37 2017 No.9474538 File: 35 KB, 300x360, 1478618471098.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9474515 yes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 00:56:17 2017 No.9474639 >>9474515 Not the other anon, but yes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 08:40:42 2017 No.9475529 >>9474462 Time for Chaucer and Milton

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 08:50:01 2017 No.9475555 >tfw I haven't read Shakespeare or the bible >Herman Melville is my favourite author and most of it probably goes over my head

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 09:13:14 2017 No.9475623 >>9475555 Quads

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 09:48:48 2017 No.9475699 >>9474639 >Not the other anon ..............................so stupid I can't even laugh

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 09:51:47 2017 No.9475704 >>9475529 Good picks.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 10:00:52 2017 No.9475720 >>9475555 Yeah how are you gonna get dem slick references brah Seriously this is the stupidest obsession

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 10:30:25 2017 No.9475822 >>9475720 allusion is an important part of literature, especially a book like Moby Dick which is full of it

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