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Pablo Nergigante, skeleton warrior)
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Cassian of Imola posted:I'm colourblind and I painted oil landscapes for a few years. I once painted a misty dawn scene of cows under a spreading tree, the sun filtering through the branches and illuminating everything in this kind of ethereal pale green. With the paints all out of their tubes on my palette, though, I lost track of which was which and the fog came out pastel pink. I didn't know until somebody asked me about it a long time later, pretty much had to scrap the whole painting That's a shame, it sounds like you could make some real interesting art.
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May 18, 2024 17:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Modern Count of Monte Cristo would be basically Batman. (IIRC Bane's backstory was based on it, though pretty loosely) That or a sequel to The Shawshank Redemption, which apparently outright references it. a guy who tried to write a modern version with a woman as the protagonist ended up with for real locked in syndrome where he could only move one eyelid.
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May 18, 2024 17:25
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Bicyclops posted:a guy who tried to write a modern version with a woman as the protagonist ended up with for real locked in syndrome where he could only move one eyelid. Go woke, go... Paralyzed?
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May 18, 2024 17:28
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Heath posted:Around this time of year I like to pull out my Annotated copy of Lolita and flip through it while sitting in my porch. Even if I haven't looked at it for a while I can open a page at random and read for a bit and find all kinds of connections between disparate passages, echoes of things from earlier in the book that resonate later. Some pages at high tension parts of the book are so completely marked up with pencil that I had to add a couple sticky notes to add more since I ran out of margin and I keep a set of multi-color tabs that I have coded to mentions of specific things (the appearance of the color pink, the appearance of or allusion to certain characters, "twinning" aspects that Nabokov was very fond of using, etc.) so that I can flip back to those parts later and tie them together in my notes. I have a couple of index cards that I have stuck at parts in the book too with things I want to investigate later. honestly the best english-original nabokov to start is pnin, i think. it's not nearly as good as lolita or pale fire, but it's more fun to read for sure. pale fire is my favorite nabokov "novel" by far though.
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May 18, 2024 17:29
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Been a while but I remember Candide being extremely funny. Also Gulliver’s Travels
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May 18, 2024 17:31
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The Count of Monte Christo is good, but it being serialized for so long makes it a huge task to get through all of it. It’s just old One Piece. Edit: I guess it was only 2 years, but whatever that shits long imo.
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May 18, 2024 17:34
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Been a while but I remember Candide being extremely funny. Also Gulliver’s Travels candide, gullivers travels, and don quiote are all funny as hell. the travels of marco polo are also really fun to read through, especially if you follow it up with italo calvino's invisible cities.
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May 18, 2024 17:36
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is also hilarious. I've only read the first bit of it but the entire thing is giants taking big shits and pissing so much that it drowns part of the city of Paris Edit: in fact there are multiple scenes of copious piss Chapter 2.XXVII.—How Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial of their valour, and Panurge another in remembrance of the hares. How Pantagruel likewise with his farts begat little men, and with his fisgs little women; and how Panurge broke a great staff over two glasses. posted:In the meantime Pantagruel began to sow the salt that he had in his bark, and because they slept with an open gaping mouth, he filled all their throats with it, so that those poor wretches were by it made to cough like foxes. Ha, Pantagruel, how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us! Suddenly Pantagruel had will to piss, by means of the drugs which Panurge had given him, and pissed amidst the camp so well and so copiously that he drowned them all, and there was a particular deluge ten leagues round about, of such considerable depth that the history saith, if his father's great mare had been there, and pissed likewise, it would undoubtedly have been a more enormous deluge than that of Deucalion; for she did never piss but she made a river greater than is either the Rhone or the Danube. Which those that were come out of the city seeing, said, They are all cruelly slain; see how the blood runs along. But they were deceived in thinking Pantagruel's urine had been the blood of their enemies, for they could not see but by the light of the fire of the pavilions and some small light of the moon. Heath has a new favorite as of 17:42 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 17:36
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GargantuaBS
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May 18, 2024 17:54
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:That sounds horrible dude, I hope they stop or you at least develop nen powers or something lol thanks. it's not a huge deal, been dealing with it basically my whole life and these "attacks" only last like 10-20 seconds total. by now the worst thing about it is that i still can't anticipate it at all and there's no noticeable triggers or any kind of consistency so when they do show up i just kind of get really pissed off at my own head for being an rear end in a top hat
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May 18, 2024 17:54
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If you like extremely bleak spy novels you should read The Looking Glass War or The Spy Who Came In From The Cold I read The Woman in White not long ago and enjoyed it immensely
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May 18, 2024 17:56
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Invisible Cities is my favorite book but it's not really much of a story per se, just a bunch of sketches of different places with a very loose bit of plot connecting them.
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May 18, 2024 18:09
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Leraika posted:Invisible Cities is my favorite book but it's not really much of a story per se, just a bunch of sketches of different places with a very loose bit of plot connecting them. which is why it rules when you read the og marco polo because it's the same thing.
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May 18, 2024 18:17
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Bicyclops posted:a guy who tried to write a modern version with a woman as the protagonist ended up with for real locked in syndrome where he could only move one eyelid. Pfft that never stopped the Diving Bell and the Butterfly guy
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May 18, 2024 18:21
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Cassian of Imola posted:I think that was my last one you should get back on it. that sounds cool as hell but I get that that kind of fuckup is frustrating. I just learned that Fred Rogers was colorblind, so all of his color discussions were him memorizing which crayon was where or whatever was going on. Paladinus posted:Not going to lie, though, Umberto Eco is extremely FTW. true Soul Dentist posted:Also read Moby Dick if you haven't, or if you have also true nrook posted:There’s a Jefferson biographer named Dumas Malone, it’s even more fun to mispronounce than Alexander Dumas my favorite author to mispronounce is Honoré de Balzac Heath posted:Gargantua and Pantagruel is also hilarious. way back when I was sculpting miniatures (as a rank amateur) and getting the kind of really solid feedback I was just saying it's hard to get someone suggested I read Rabelais and His World to better theorize monstrousness in my sculptures. so I read Gargantua and then that. I really miss web 1.0 mailing list culture
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May 18, 2024 18:22
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there's an alexander pope poem called the dunciad that's basically a gigantic dis track, it narrates a bunch of people he hates taking part in the titular dunciad (retard olympics), there's like races through big piles of poo poo. trumpets blowing fanfares but through farting. also pope once made an enemy so mad that she had his face painted on the interior of her chamber pot so she could piss and poo poo on him every day.
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May 18, 2024 18:22
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Al! posted:alexander dumbass lol hon hon HONK
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May 18, 2024 18:28
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read nichijou
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May 18, 2024 18:29
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nichijou adventure time regular show and a bong
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May 18, 2024 18:33
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where do i read a bong
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May 18, 2024 18:36
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very risky blowjob posted:go read the george miles cycle by dennis cooper i realize much later than i should have that even among the cool people in the pyf legends thread, recommending dennis cooper in any way shape or form should come with a trigger warning for basically everything ever. the george miles cycle especially. they're five discrete novels but over the course of them cooper drills down into his own compulsions, obsessions, criminal desires, and sexual fetishes until he hits bone, and then keeps drilling from there. if you've read bret easton ellis, imagine "what if bret easton ellis could consistently write good books"
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May 18, 2024 18:39
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:read nichijou also, this
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May 18, 2024 18:39
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I started reading A Memory Called Empire and it’s pretty good.
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May 18, 2024 18:48
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very risky blowjob posted:imagine "what if bret easton ellis could consistently write good books" I cannot
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May 18, 2024 18:50
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:read nichijou this. read theory people.
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May 18, 2024 18:51
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Been a while but I remember Candide being extremely funny. Also Gulliver’s Travels The Leonard Bernstein operetta was very good and one of my favorites. I like the song where Pangloss sings about looking on the bright side of Syphillis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXF3zKYT90 Also watching the 1934 adaption of monte cristo for my saturday thanks to this thread.
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May 18, 2024 18:51
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:nichijou adventure time regular show and a bong 
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May 18, 2024 18:52
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:read nichijou also read yotsuba &
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May 18, 2024 18:55
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:also read yotsuba & i've read it twice in japanese, to help me learn japanese. in fact i think it's the only manga i've ever read in full. it's really good, maybe even in english
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May 18, 2024 18:58
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lobster shirt posted:do u like pale fire Pale Fire kicks rear end it's so funny
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May 18, 2024 19:07
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i dont ever see it mentioned but on the topic of surreal comedy anime, Majokko Tsukune-chan nailed some of its bits crazy good last i remember. been a few years but it anyone else's seen it and can back that up i'd give the show a large recommend 
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May 18, 2024 19:09
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the sex ghost posted:If you like extremely bleak spy novels you should read The Looking Glass War or The Spy Who Came In From The Cold a book i recommend in this vein is Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad, its kind of a cynical response to Crime and Punishment about a guy betraying his way upward
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May 18, 2024 19:16
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animal well item and utility spoilers https://i.imgur.com/CatjBZ5.mp4 game owns
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May 18, 2024 19:23
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as far as anime goes i think everyone should watch the japanese dub (for the musical bits) of Belle
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May 18, 2024 19:27
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Pfft that never stopped the Diving Bell and the Butterfly guy That's him. He was the guy writing the Count of Monte Cristo thing. Pablo Nergigante posted:Been a while but I remember Candide being extremely funny. Also Gulliver’s Travels Yeah, Gulliver's Travels is funny. It's sort of fitting that like half the modern adaptations of it are sex comedies, lol
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May 18, 2024 19:27
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Pale Fire owns. I'm about due for a reread The last actual fiction I read was Junji Ito's Black Paradox, which is an extremely solid "you think this might be a normal-rear end horror story, but no, it's Junji Ito and things are about to get extremely loving weird" joint
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May 18, 2024 19:31
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Your boy just be rereading Moby Dick these days. Obsessed since I was a kid.
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May 18, 2024 19:32
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Wormskull posted:Your boy just be rereading Moby Dick these days. Obsessed since I was a kid. a grad school friend had to store his books somewhere so I offered to put a few at my place and in his OED where the magnifying glass was supposed to go was a copy of Moby Dick. so I read it and holy poo poo it's so good
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May 18, 2024 19:46
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Hot Diggity! posted:Pale Fire kicks rear end it's so funny this
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May 18, 2024 19:52
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Been a while but I remember Candide being extremely funny. Also Gulliver’s Travels Lysistrata is hilarious
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