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Shoud I buy this, /lit/?
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Shoud I buy this, /lit/?
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>>7568106
If you want to read it, sure.
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Is that cover a real thing? Did they really have Cornellá do that?
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>>7568117
Yes.
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Whoa, Chaucer would definitely have a giggle over this.
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>>7568106
I know I will
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>>7568117
This has to be the tamest thing cornella has drawn in his life
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>>7568257
On the other hand, you can't help but extrapolate from the cover. Megakeks
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Most superior of lek.

Of course you must buy it.
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>>7568339
There has to be a hidden dick somewhere
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lol surprise rimming, the novel
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Read the Decameron instead.
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I would imagine Chaucer is a poet who translates fairly well, so go for it.
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>>7568106
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>>7569290
Made me look
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>>7569290
holy fuck
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>>7569290
What am i missing
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>>7569490
>in which the main character Ethan visits a hospital, where he finds his girlfriend who recently had a miscarriage. The comic was resented by readers for its failure at presenting a dramatic story, leading to much ridicule.

memes everywhere
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>>7569506
People clearly want to be spoonfed, seems pretty obvious what the narrative is to me.
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>>7569259
why would you translate chaucer? that's like reading cervantes in the new orthography without listening first to the canciones sefardĂ­es.
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>>7569532
yes. it's just like that.
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>>7569532
So you can understand it? Doesn't do much good if you have no idea what you're reading.
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>>7568106
thank you Cornella
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>>7569490
he has a penis in the third panel
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Chaucer honestly is not worth reading if you're not going to read him in middle english. You're missing so much there's no point, you only get the surface narrative.
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>>7569659
>you only get the surface narrative.
some people want just that
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>>7569290
lost it xD
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>>7569644
That's how I saw it as well.
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>>7568106
i thought this was a joke when I saw cornella and then I thought for all of 5 seconds that cornella wrote a book

quite de-hyped desu
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