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I just think frogs are pretty cool.
Any books with them as a theme/motif?

(Toads also accepted)

>> No.18903505

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS BRO

>> No.18903512

kill yourself

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>>18903505
This

>> No.18903527

>>18903505
Take that as a given. Top children's classic.

>> No.18903529

>>18903505
Baste

>> No.18903979
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>>18903480
Some picture books on frogs:
A Frog Prince by Alix Berenzy
Gem by Holly Hobbie
Graeme Base, Fritz Baumgarten, and Alfred Bestall have nice illustrations of frogs, which you can Google for.

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>>18903480
The Frogs by Aristophanes

>> No.18904052

>>18903979
Thank you very much friend.

>> No.18904065

Why should I let the toad work

Squat on my life?

Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork

And drive the brute off?
Six days of the week it soils

With its sickening poison -

Just for paying a few bills!

That's out of proportion.
Lots of folk live on their wits:

Lecturers, lispers,

Losels, loblolly-men, louts-

They don't end as paupers;
Lots of folk live up lanes

With fires in a bucket,

Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-

they seem to like it.
Their nippers have got bare feet,

Their unspeakable wives

Are skinny as whippets - and yet

No one actually starves.
Ah, were I courageous enough

To shout Stuff your pension!

But I know, all too well, that's the stuff

That dreams are made on:
For something sufficiently toad-like

Squats in me, too;

Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,

And cold as snow,
And will never allow me to blarney

My way of getting

The fame and the girl and the money

All at one sitting.
I don't say, one bodies the other

One's spiritual truth;

But I do say it's hard to lose either,

When you have both.

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>>18904014
Aristophanes is the king.

>Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx!

>> No.18904146

>>18903480
Frog and Toad. Very comfy

>> No.18904236

Glad you asked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Brisset
>Brisset became stationmaster at the railway station of Angers, and later of L'Aigle. After publishing another book on the French language, he undertook his major philosophical work, in which contended that humans were descended from frogs. Brisset supported his contention by comparing the French and frog languages (such as "logement" = dwelling, comes from "l'eau" = water). He was serious about his "morosophy", and authored a number of books and pamphlets put forth his indisputable substantiations, which he had printed and distributed at his own expense.

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>>18903979
>>18904014
>>18904014
>>18904146
>>18904146
>>18904236
This thread has cheered me up a lot.
Thanks lads.

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>>18904236
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Brisset

> In 1912, novelist Jules Romains, who had obtained copies of God's Mystery and The Human Origins, set up, with the help of fellow hoaxers, a rigged election for a "Prince of Thinkers". Unsurprisingly, Brisset got elected. The Election Committee then called Brisset to Paris in 1913, where he was received and acclaimed with great pomp. He partook in several ceremonies and a banquet and uttered emotional words of thanks for this unexpected late recognition of his work. Newspapers exposed the hoax the next day.

That's mean.

>> No.18904457

Kind related, does anyone have the pic of Apu standing with closed eyes and his arms crossed, frequently used with the "so basically I'm not getting the vaccine"?
I need it for something.

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KENNY SEEMS TO OVERLY LIKE FROGS; I WOULD LET HER TOUCH MY GAMS; I WOULD LIKE TO LISTEN TO HER CROAKS, HAHA.

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>> No.18905669

>>18904444
>they did this to a 75 year old man
jesus christ

>> No.18905926

>>18904655
>>18904667
lol you are an autist

>> No.18905938

The Frog Prince by the Brothers Grimm
obviousy

(Every child knows this in Germany)

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>>18904065
Very good and cool. A frog for you.

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>>18903480

>> No.18907332

>>18904236
>>18904444
Are his works available in english? he sounds genuinely interesting.

>> No.18907419
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In Legends of the Jews there is a great story about Rabbi Hanina and the hungry frog.
https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=107&tale=3889
Also, you should know that the plague of frogs in Exodus was actually just one giant frog.

>> No.18907444

>>18907332
No, they aren't.
If I can find the frog one and it isn't 900 pages I might try my hand at translating it.

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>>18904444

>> No.18909179

>>18904655
>>18904667
Finally, he drops all spiritual and metaphysical pretense and embraces the fact that he is an autistic pedophile

>> No.18909476

>>18903480
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure