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CestMoi
Sep 16, 2011

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

oh a gang tag

I'll need to figure out what the rules are on those these days

I suspect the biggest hurdle will be finding an image that's appropriate

Urs Allemann loving a baby

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Normal Adult Human
Feb 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
"stop loving"
and then it explodes into
"children"

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Sir John Feelgood posted:

How 'bout this?



I would slam my dick in a door before I had a game of thrones tag

Sir John Feelgood
Nov 18, 2009

Edit: nvm

Sir John Feelgood fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Sep 18, 2017

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

a friend of the friendly atom

Soiled Meat

Normal Adult Human posted:

"stop loving"
and then it explodes into
"children"

Bandiet
Dec 31, 2015

What's cuter than an actual worm reading a book? Especially if he has little glasses.

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

a friend of the friendly atom

Soiled Meat
nothing and no one in this thread is cute. it's just shitposting and bitterness

CestMoi
Sep 16, 2011

I'm actually rather cute irl

Foul Fowl
Sep 12, 2008

Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

chernobyl kinsman posted:

nothing and no one in this thread is cute. it's just shitposting and bitterness

shut the gently caress up

poetry chat: baudelaire's les fleurs de mal is, as it turns out, amazing. the poem about the walk being interrupted by seven old men emerging out of the mist, 'ironic and inescapable, disgusting Phoenix, son and father to himself', was hilarious.

derp
Jan 21, 2010

when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again

Lipstick Apathy
finished the talented mr ripley and it was pretty fun but the ending was really anticlimactic. i guess i should have expected seeing that its part of a series... but...

started 'the spy who came in from the cold' my first lecarre novel. its interesting so far.

VileLL
Oct 3, 2015


CestMoi posted:

Urs Allemann loving a baby

i've got this ordered on your recommendation and i'm pretty hopeful

whatevz
Sep 22, 2013

I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dying.
.

whatevz fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Apr 25, 2022

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
has anyone ever written a book from the perspective of a blind person?

CestMoi
Sep 16, 2011

VileLL posted:

i've got this ordered on your recommendation and i'm pretty hopeful

It's really cool both as a weirdo surrealist kafka/abe/kierkegaard(?????) whatever existential horror scenario and also as a challenge to acceptability in a tradition that would like to think of itself as being beyond concerns like acceptability but lmao that you bought it based on me just bringing it up constantly because it's a funny word

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

fridge corn posted:

has anyone ever written a book from the perspective of a blind person?

No.

Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

fridge corn posted:

has anyone ever written a book from the perspective of a blind person?

Jose Saramago has

Unless you mean blind from birth, then maybe but I dunno

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Guy A. Person posted:

Jose Saramago has

Unless you mean blind from birth, then maybe but I dunno

Blindness is from the perspective of the only woman who can still see DUMBASS

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.
Borgias.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

fridge corn posted:

has anyone ever written a book from the perspective of a blind person?

Homer :smug:

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Homer wasn't real

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
Yeah I was kinda thinking more like a book which uses no visual descriptions whatsoever.

tetrapyloctomy
Feb 18, 2003

Okay -- you talk WAY too fast.
Nap Ghost

fridge corn posted:

has anyone ever written a book from the perspective of a blind person?

Helen Keller wrote an autobiography.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
Next you're gonna tell me Aesop was fake.

Fine, Oedipus at Colonus

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.
Wasn't Aesop real? All those talking animals of his, they were fake.

Burning Rain
Jul 17, 2006

What's happening?!?!

tetrapyloctomy posted:

Helen Keller wrote an autobiography.

And it's actually well written and very much worth reading, especially if you're interested in how she perceived the world.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

Mr. Squishy posted:

Wasn't Aesop real? All those talking animals of his, they were fake.

I meant Uncle Remus, so here we are.

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

tetrapyloctomy posted:

Helen Keller wrote an autobiography.

hmm that's a start

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

a friend of the friendly atom

Soiled Meat

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Homer wasn't real

was too

ulvir
Jan 2, 2005

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Blindness is from the perspective of the only woman who can still see DUMBASS

actually the perspective shifts between characters iirc

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

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ulvir posted:

actually the perspective shifts between characters iirc

it actually an omniscient 3rd person narrator

Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Blindness is from the perspective of the only woman who can still see DUMBASS

oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

derp
Jan 21, 2010

when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again

Lipstick Apathy
wow le carre is drat good. don't know how have I never read any of his stuff before, probably assumed it was some bond or mission impossible type poo poo. i am a fan now, yowza

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001


was not

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.



The last 2000 years of Homeric Scholarship in summary

Tree Goat
May 24, 2009

argania spinosa
it's the no homers club: there's allowed to be one.

Carly Gay Dead Son
Aug 27, 2007

Bonus.
About halfway through A Little Life and I don't think I've ever read anything quite this miserable. gently caress.

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Budgie Jumping posted:

About halfway through A Little Life and I don't think I've ever read anything quite this miserable. gently caress.

it sounds extremely bad.

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.
I'm re-reading 100 years of solitude for the second time this year

Carly Gay Dead Son
Aug 27, 2007

Bonus.

A human heart posted:

it sounds extremely bad.

So far I've liked it more than I would ever expect to like 400 (out of 800) pages of yuppie-centric psycho melodrama. But I will probably regret spending this much time reading it. Aquarium had the decency to be so tight in scope. What kind of person decides to write an emotional torture porn epic?

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doug fuckey
Jun 7, 2007

hella greenbacks

Ras Het posted:

I'm re-reading 100 years of solitude for the second time this year

i found a copy of love in the time of cholera on the sidewalk so I'll probably read that soon

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