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14312894 No.14312894 [Reply] [Original]

what's your opinion on pic related?
Is the author, dare I say, a genius?

>> No.14312929

>>14312894
If he set this book in the present at say Starbucks he'd be a laughingstock. (BUT at least he'd have made money off it.) It's the air of antiquity that confers on it a contrived dignity. So he's not a genius but, rather, doubly stupid: he wrote something insipid and made fuck all off it.

>> No.14312946

>>14312894
I wish you knew the pleasure it brings me to see myself posted here - thank you sir, thank you!

>> No.14312958

>>14312929
did you even read it retard? do you think Starbucks and enlightenment era coffeehouses are even remotely similar?

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14312991

>>14312894
>Is the author, dare I say, a genius?
Undoubtedly a genius, a magnum opus like this can only be crafted by a select few of the creme de la creme of food historians

>> No.14313007

>>14312946
thank you for your genius work, Brian

>> No.14313105

>>14312929
It's not fiction, retard.

>> No.14313128

>>14312929
Jesus Christ you're a fucking idiot. The absolute state of this board...

>> No.14314056

>>14312929
>Antagonistic marketing

>> No.14314066

>>14313128
Cool it, hothead. We got a nice guest here for once.

>> No.14315052

>>14312894
Bumping now that I'm home and can participate