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If you could take one book to prison with you, what would it be?
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If you could take one book to prison with you, what would it be?
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>>7861941
the hollow one with a file concealed inside it
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>>7861941
Complete Works of Shakespere. It's got sex, drinking, debauchary, war, and sex.
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Hegel's Science of Logic, unless I'm being imprisoned for life it's going to be enough to fill my time.
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>his prison doesn't have a library

Pleb
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The Odyssey, the Republic or the Bible.

I'm not sure which.
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Depends on how long I'm in prison.
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Either the Oxford Companion to the Mind or a compilation of physics textbooks.
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>>7861941
The Bible, I'm not religious at all but if I only had one book and was in prison I think the only way I could be happy is if I devoted myself to religion
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The Pali Canon
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>>7863573
Kek.
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>>7861941
Infinite Jest, The blunt force generated by the density of this book will make a fearsome weapon.
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>>7861941
Complete works of Plato. Just because it huge and you can reread it plenty of times and getting different answers or topics to ponder about. You can just think yourself to death with it if you read it as illusionary discussion.
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>>7863630
I'm pretty sure that's about escaping your inner prison
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Is being in a prison the ultimate /lit/ life?

Nothing but free time to read books and disucss them with fellow prisoners, and you can order and check out any book possible at the prison's library.
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>>7863971
Would kill someone for such but I assume it depends in what country you live and what kind of library there is. Also you wont be able to read all day.
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The Greeks.
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Depends. Do I have to hide it up in my ass to bring it inside? if so >>7863986. All of them.
Bonus points for not even noticing anything when bent down in the showers.
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My mom regularly donates her books (mostly regional crime fiction) to our local prison
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Think they'll let me keep it?
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>>7863996
>donating crime fiction to a criminal house
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>>7863971
Only if you in Denmark or something, as a South American, going to prison is madness.
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In Search of Lost Time. Although it's not likely I'll finish it before I get out desu
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>>7863971
Only in first-world countries, in american prison you're likely to be gang-raped by nig-nogs than have access to a library.
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>>7864009
got you senpam
just rape/kill/rape a child after you're done whatever crime you plan to get into prison
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>>7864044
>just rape/kill/rape a child after you're done whatever crime you plan to get into prison

You know what they do to pedophiles in prison, don't you?
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Don't most prisons have libraries?
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>>7864258
the bring Marcel Pruust's In search of Lust Time
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>>7861941
Seems à propos
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war and peace
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>>7861941
but anon I'm already in a prison
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>>7863564
there was a baptist preacher named Kent Hovind who went to prison for "Structuring" for 7 years or something like that. His faith was probably the only thing that saved him, considering he just got out almost a year ago and is 70 something years old.
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