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What the fuck was his problem?
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What the fuck was his problem?
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>be Russian
>pick up saxophone on a whim
>holy shit I'm really good at this saxophone
>don't really need any training at all
>just doodle doot doot on the saxophone, people love me
>amazing at this saxophone
>people ask how I'm so good
>tell them I can smell colors
>"I just smell them," I say
>"This note is blue" *toot*
>"This one is orange" *toot toot*
>everyone claps
>release one magnum opus after another by tooting the correct color combinations, directly from my soul to your ear
>listen to other saxophone players
>clearly I am better
>listen to some of the ones considered the absolute best in the world
>none of them are fucking blue enough
>get angry
>call them all shit erratically
>randomly say certain ones are okay
>people ask me to explain
>"can't you see? there isn't enough blue in that one! the orange balance is all off!!!!!!!!! this fucking guy doesn't even put reds in his yellows after a green movement!!!!!!!!!"
>try to found a new aesthetic theory where the search to understand harmony and beauty and soul and emotion are all retarded horseshit and everyone should just listen to my personal toot toot theories about color combos forever
>die a bald russian faggot
>unique synesthesia brain rots in ground
>burn in hell
>no one cares about my aesthetics ever again for eternity
>people keep quoting my toot ratings out of context because they're vaguely familiar with my symphony about child-fucking
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>>8222441
lel
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his dad was assassinated and his brother was killed in the haulocaust
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>>8222776
HAHAHAHAHA WHAT A FAGGOT
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>>8222441
legendary
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>>8222441
reddit/10

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>>8222836
samefag
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>>8222846
>t. highschoolcore
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>>8222485
What is the "corn father" meme a reference to?

His comment about Faulkner?
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nabokov is one of the coolest people to exist in history
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>>8222909
Filtered
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nabokov is what nietzsche meant by ubermensch
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>>8222422
He was brilliant, but he took himself and his ideas too seriously.
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>>8222905
yeah the corncobby chronicle crack
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Communism stole his dacha.
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Amazing prose, average storytelling
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>>8223438
I'm going to beat you to death with his complete short stories, and then wrap the corpse in his articles and lecture notes for when your mother finds you.
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