"I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest"

"I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest"

Bravo, Wilde.

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He didn't actually write this though

"Here I stand, under gravity's rainbow--- yet where's MY pot o' gold?"

Fucking seriously, Pynchon?

>It was only after a decade and a half that I came to terms with my predicament. Following a through exploration of my current dwellings, I noticed I had been living inside the Earth. And as I scribble on these pieces of paper, I've come to understand that I am truly writing Notes From the Underground.

They call this guy a 'genius'.

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>A pitiful sight these bashful bears
>These timid warrior Whalemen

>And now the time of tide has come
>The ship casts off her cables

>It is not shown on any map
>True places never are

>This lovely light it lights not me
>All loveliness is anguish.

In Bend Sinister Nabokov plays Pound to Melville's unconscious Eliot. But.. is it post-modern?

>Damn that whale has a huge Moby Dick
"""''''''""Great""""""""" American Novel

>"That's right, I had been a lot of things in my life, but now I was the Man Who was Thursday."

>"She kept watching him even when he had become only a mote in the distant light of the horizon. He had been her past and her future, the object and source of her hope. He had been A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

>My life, my life, my very old one
>My first badly healed desire,
>My first crippled love,
>You had to return.

>It was necessary to know
>What is best in our lives,
>When two bodies play at happiness,
>Unite, reborn without end.

>Entered into complete dependency,
>I know the trembling of being,
>The hesitation to disappear,
>Sunlight upon the forest’s edge

>And love, where all is easy,
>Where all is given in the instant;
>There exists in the midst of time
>The possibility of an island.

>Succumbing to frostbite and despair, our story ends with our protagonist finally forced to confront The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
Wow, anonymous, just wow...ok.

>gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm
>Algernon. Cecily! [Embraces her.] At last!
>Jack. Gwendolen! [Embraces her.] At last!
>Lady Bracknell. My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
>Jack. On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Or am I being swindled?

>Men are the same in both War and Peace
Russian """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""literature"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

edie wharton wrote the importance of being earnest

>then quoth the Finnegans "wake up!"

Fucking hack piece of shit.

>So be it! You shall be the Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring! The Novelization. Includes a 4K Bluray/digital copy not for resale".

That sounds plausible, so it's probably not true.

>In the Game Of Thrones you wither win, or you die
Tolkien of America

>y-you b-baka! I hate you because you are the sailor who fell from grace with the sea! Dieee!!
wow

>I had Great Expectations for you
What did he mean by this?

>And so in the end, after getting the girl and saving France, Jean Valjean had become Less Miserable.
really, Hugo?

>I guess I was The Great Gatsby all along.

ugh

>Oedipa sat back, and awaited the Crying of Lot 49

stopped reading right there.

>As it turns out, love was his Inherent Vice
Why does Veeky Forums worship this hack?

this one is so simple but it fucking got me

what is this called? namedropping the title?

I dunno, in old movies they would namedrop the title before rolling credits. So Cinememesins has coined the phrase "Roll Credits" whenever this occurs.

>Don Gately woke up on a stretch of beach and wondered for the first time with his cashew sized brain enclosed inside of a Subaru sized dome if his life was one long Infinite Jest.
Youre really going to end the book on that you fucking hack

>stopped reading at the end of the book
Never gets old.

>"My name is Ishmael, and today we will be hunting Moby Dick, or The Whale!"

I'm honestly shocked. Is this all American shiterature has to offer?

underrated

It gets worse
>So now I done finished with the story, these adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer say they warn't no good on account of there warn't any princes or knights or nothin, but I guess I'll jes let you be the judge of that.

>Undeniably, I am Ulysses by James Joyce.
Huh.

FUCK

>"And then my daddy, he said to me, "Son, it's about time you learned... that this is No Country for Old Men.
>"And then I woke up."

Oh for FUCK'S SAKE... truly one of America's best living authors!

This thread sucks. It's just a series of hackey stock lines with a book titled subbed in. Seriously, take any one of these and just sub the book title with a different book and it works just as well. Just as well because it's shit and you're all lame.

>Truely I had become "Book Title"
>It was then that I realized "Book Title"
>In the end "Book Title"

>Truely

You are too intellectual for this thread, good monsieur.

I don't understand.

>The year is....1984

Fucking really ORWELL U HACK POS

>"Surely around the bend there shall be Dubliners by James Joyce"
getting real sick of your shit james

>The ship's propulsion system inoperable, the doomed crew drifted steadily... into the gulag archipelago.

Seriously, Solzhenitsyn?

>"BROTHER, SHARE YOUR OATS ON THIS ANIMAL FARM!"

Indian fucking shit.

>This is The Fundamentals of Physics.
Wow. Really, David Halliday, Jearl Walker, and Robert Resnick? Fucking hacks.

>In the beginning
Wow, Genesis. No shit.

>"Hey, Deckard. Do you think Blade Runners dream of Electric Sheep?"
This author is a real Dick.

>"Tauriel, these are the little prisoners"
>"Finally I get to meet The Hobbit, or There and Back Again."
Thanks, Tolks.

kek

>You know, I guess it goes to show ya—it's Hard to be a God.

>Dont pull your thang out unless you plan to bang, Bombs Over Baghdad

GOAT desu

>April is the cruelest The Wasteland

ok, WOW.

>Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Great fukin job, Peter Christen Asbjornsen

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of Infinite Jest, of most excellent fancy."

Good job, David Poser Wallace.

A+

I approve.

>TFW this one is legit and everyone stops reading at that point

>'"This is where your road ends, you bastard. Die Verwandlung! Die!"

ugh

> You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

god damnit

why cant this just be a thread of great quotes that make me want to read more books

fuck

you could make that thread

What means this? Is this post too deep for me?

> Wow, I can't believe I didn't drown, that sure was a huge The Tempest.

Dropped.

no, noone every replies to any of my comments or threads

you do it user

>posting for replies
pleb as fuck

>not posting on Veeky Forums merely as a masturbatory thought-exercise

I never thought about it that way

This fucking guy

Who's noone?

heres your (you) friend

its for posting gaki pics

top jej

You are pathetic.