>lend best bud leatherbound copy of Dante's Inferno
>months pass
>I don't usually ask for books back but this one is special
>My dead dad gave it to me before leaving for Afghanistan
>He would never return
>"So, did you read the book?"
>"Oh sure Anon, I forgot. I'll bring it to you next time we see each other."
>fast forward to next time
>Leather binding has been grossly replaced with hard paper by his vegan girlfriend, the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
>EVERY footnote has been cropped with scissors
>Beautiful Doré illustrations have been painted with watercolor
>Dogears
>All the blank pages are missing
>Marbled inlays are now inexplicably pulp paper yellow
>Someone scrawled "Dante Alighieri" with a black pen and wrote "Dorkte Allegory" below
>Friend looks at me, a sincere smile on his face, as I look at the disaster that is my father's last gift
>He doesn't seem to understand what's happening
>Run away
>Years later, I see him begging on the streets and pretend not to see him
am I supposed to care?
cool story bro
>>7874833
>the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
What?
>>7874833
Killing him is the only retribution
classic pasta here
Dad gave you that book to help you understand he went to hell.
Aged like fine wine.
>>7874865
tfw
>>7874833
>the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
What? Thats hilarious. Anyway the fuck were you thinking lending out a book that is so important to you?
>>7874833
I've been in /lit/ for three moons and this pasta smells foul
>>7874833
> From Dante's Inferno, the best branch copy leather Loans
> Months
> Books 1-RE, we do not require it is man himself,
> Father left me in Afghanistan
> I will not return
> "This is the book"
> "Ah ikmyeongneun OK, but I forgot, I brought you, let us see one another."
> As long as the cold season
> In one of his girl friend, a vegetarian serious leather-bound paper has been replaced by hard work, according to a small North Kaluolaina state of the skin,
> They are not familiar with the scissors cut off
> Spectrum Dole was painted ecological throat
> Dogears
> All blank page deletion
> Mark foil paper pulp yellow mosaic
There> Black Pen "Dante" Graffiti "Dorkte play"
I'm looking at this evil father's last gift gifts> In my opinion, a true friend, a smile on his face,
> It does not seem to understand how the matter
> History
> A few years later the streets to see him, a fictitious desire
>>7874924
> Father left me in Afghanstan
> I will not return
yikes, how's that going?
>>7874924
> It does not seem to understand how the matter
> History
> A few years later the streets to see him, a fictitious desire
It's like poetry
>>7874833
This isnt the original pasta
>>7874924
How do you produce these?
But, yeah, it's cut-up pasta. An innovation, tbqh.
>>7874833
haven't seen this pasta in forever, thanks anon
>>7874881
Or any book ever. If I really want someone to have a book I'll buy them a copy for their birthday. If THEY really want a book that I have, they can fuck off to the bookstore and get one of their own.
The monetary value doesn't really matter, but I shudder to imagine hundreds of pages of annotations and margin notes lost because of a forgetful friend.
>>7874924
Beautiful, beautiful
