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Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:03:38 2018 No.10682020 [Reply] [Original]

I stopped reading both of these after about 20/30 pages. Am I brainlet? How do I enjoy them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:05:39 2018 No.10682028 neigh, thou ist brainleth. clapboard wastrel! get thee hince o prattleprance!

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:06:24 2018 No.10682031 >The Sound and The Fury >hard Brainlet confirmed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:07:33 2018 No.10682035 >>10682020 Oscar Wilde's short stories, essays and poem are his best works. I'm not sure why The Picture of Dorian Gray gets shilled soo much. Try The Critique as Artist and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:08:50 2018 No.10682043 >>10682035 >The Critique as Artist The Critic as Artist!

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:08:51 2018 No.10682044 >>10682031 I didn't see the point in it, i-it was boring

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:10:29 2018 No.10682050 Dorian Gray is shit so don't feel bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:11:32 2018 No.10682053 >>10682044 >wanting a point Come on, at least try to have something in that noggin of yours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:16:07 2018 No.10682063 >>10682053 Oscar Wilde would have agreed with him. If you can't find pleasure in a book within 10 minutes of reading a book, toss it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:18:08 2018 No.10682074 >>10682063 >thinking that the brit's pet jester agreeing with him is a point >being hedonistic Y'all be brainlets.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:19:41 2018 No.10682081 >>10682074 >He doesn't read for Aesthetics Pseuds need to go back to /pol/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:20:57 2018 No.10682084 >>10682081 >he doesn't read (aloud) exclusively Greek epic poetry in the original language

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:22:39 2018 No.10682093 >>10682081 >implying The Sound and The Fury ain't Aesthetics

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:22:52 2018 No.10682094 >>10682084 >He hasn't memorized the oral traditions of the Greeks When will booklets learn?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:24:37 2018 No.10682105 >>10682093 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Pseud. Also, I never implied that isn't in any case.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:25:05 2018 No.10682107 >>10682044 The fuck, trying to puzzle the pieces together to get something coherent out of Benjy’s part is some of the most fun I’ve had with a book ever.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:27:08 2018 No.10682115 >>10682020 Categorically. The Sound and the Fury is something you should be able to read with ease around age fourteen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:28:17 2018 No.10682118 >>10682105 >still using psued Ok brainlet

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:30:32 2018 No.10682122 File: 99 KB, 1000x563, Oscar-Wilde.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10682118 >getting your feelings hurt by online posts God you pseuds are pathetic, I honestly feel bad for you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:33:59 2018 No.10682132 File: 761 KB, 320x179, IMG_3833.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10682122 Is this sincere?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 12 00:36:26 2018 No.10682141 In Art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them. -Oscar Wilde Don't sweat it OP.

>>	The Polling Anon !!MdJOK9Gnqa4 Mon Feb 12 01:25:19 2018 No.10682328 >>10682020 Can vaguely understand Sound and Fury but Dorian gray? tf do you read/enjoy?