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Umberto Eco just died
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is Foucalt Pendulum worth reading? Seen it on some postmodern chart
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>>7718162
holy fucking shit, not him, he's one of my favourite writers
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>>7718162
I'm just waiting for Gene Wolfe to die
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Semiotics. The Name of the Rose. Wonder who'll be the third author to die today?
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holy shit...
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So sad
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RIP Dan Brown d'Italia
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>>7718168
Yes. It's even worth reading right the fuck now when everyone will think you're reading it because he just died.
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>Died 19 February 2016 (aged Expression error: Unexpected < operator–Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".)Expression error: Unexpected > operator
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>>7718162
Holy shit. RIP
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CONSPIRACY?
Thanks, Obama...
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Not dead:

http://en.mediamass.net/people/umberto-eco/deathhoax.html

>News of author Umberto Eco’s death spread quickly earlier this week causing concern among fans across the world. However the February 2016 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports. Thankfully, the author of the Name of the Rose is alive and well.

>Hundreds of fans immediately started writing their messages of condolence on the Facebook page, expressing their sadness that the talented 84-year-old author and philosopher was dead. And as usual, Twittersphere was frenzied over the death hoax.

>Where as some trusting fans believed the post, others were immediately skeptical of the report, perhaps learning their lesson from the huge amount of fake death reports emerging about celebrities over recent months. Some pointed out that the news had not been carried on any major Italian network, indicating that it was a fake report, as the death of an author of Umberto Eco's stature would be major news across networks.

>On Friday (February 19) the author's reps officially confirmed that Umberto Eco is not dead. “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said.

>Some fans have expressed anger at the fake report saying it was reckless, distressing and hurtful to fans of the much loved author. Others say this shows his extreme popularity across the globe.
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>>7718216
this
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>>7718232
orbis tertius strikes again
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>>7718232
italian big news sites are reporting that he's dead
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RIP in peace, funnyman.
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>>7718232
Fuck man, if I was decently famous I would start my own hoax of my death.
Just to reap in that sweet, sweet, compliment train
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holy shit is this real i cant take this
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What a shit year...

RIP, Italy lost a pillar today
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>>7718244
Can you link one? I don't know how to find bootsites.
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>>7718232
HAHAHAHA

>News of actor Roberto Manrique’s death spread quickly earlier this week causing concern among fans across the world. However the February 2016 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports. Thankfully, the actor best known for his roles in El Clon or Victorinos is alive and well.

>Hundreds of fans immediately started writing their messages of condolence on the Facebook page, expressing their sadness that the talented 36-year-old actor and model was dead. And as usual, Twittersphere was frenzied over the death hoax.

>Where as some trusting fans believed the post, others were immediately skeptical of the report, perhaps learning their lesson from the huge amount of fake death reports emerging about celebrities over recent months. Some pointed out that the news had not been carried on any major Ecuadorian network, indicating that it was a fake report, as the death of an actor of Roberto Manrique's stature would be major news across networks.

>On Friday (February 19) the actor's reps officially confirmed that Roberto Manrique is not dead. “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said.

>Some fans have expressed anger at the fake report saying it was reckless, distressing and hurtful to fans of the much loved actor. Others say this shows his extreme popularity across the globe.

ITS A FUCKING SCRIPT
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>>7718257
http://www.repubblica.it/
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>>7718257
http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2016/02/20/news/morto_lo_scrittore_umberto_eco-133816061/
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>>7718257
he's actually dead guys... :(

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/2016/02/20/morto-umberto-eco-aveva-84-anni_d9e7caad-bf35-4a9d-8a79-9c9b07def883.html

http://www.lastampa.it/2016/02/20/cultura/morto-lo-scrittore-umberto-eco-GnI8tQsgrFeLYlhDLo66JP/pagina.html
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He'll be fine
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damn I aint got aroujd to readinh him yet but i want to impress cuties by grieving for him on facebook

which is his shortest book so i can read it this weekend and then chat up cute grad students about him on monday
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talentless hack. at least Dan Brown can write a story. Eco was just hipster bait. muh semiotics. muh medieval garbage.
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>>7718261
>>7718232
Anyone could've known it was a hoax. Did you see those links to "related news"?

> Umberto Eco to be a Dad?
> Umberto Eco Secretly Married?
> Umberto Eco Single Again?
> Umberto Eco Goes 'Gangam Style'

> 'Gangam Style'
Yep, I surely believe that Eco would go 'Gangam Style' on us. What a memer he was.
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>>7718168
It's worth even if you are a pleb with no interest in post-modernism.
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>>7718168
It's not like other postmodern novels in that there's a clear story to follow, from what I've been told

>>7718278
Foucault's pendulum
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Fuck him, I only read The Name Of The Rose when I was 14 and I don't remember shit
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whoa dude like
*rips bong*
What if like hes in a state between dead and alive right now
like we literally memed him to death
whoa
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>>7718279
he wasnt mainly a novelist
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I have only read "Name of the Rose" (great!), "Foucault's Pendulum" (amazing!), and "Baudolino" (underwhelming). What else should I read?
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Jesus christ they're all dropping like flies
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>>7718232
>>7718261
>>7718280
>>7718244
>>7718268
>>7718271


I DON'T KNOW WHO TO BELIEVE

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART
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>>7718306
The Open Work, his revolutionary work on aesthetics most people just plain ignored.

It's the best system for post-modern aesthetics I can think of tbqhwyf
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>>7718289
>It's not like other postmodern novels in that there's a clear story to follow

yikes!
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F
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>>7718310
He's dead anon. All italian newspapers are confirming it. I'm from Bologna
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>>7718306

you should read The Island of the Day Before...but Foucault's Pendulum, for me, remains a peak unmatched.
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>>7718290
it was great you fucking pleb

I read it in an abbot, munching on some fresh bread and drinking some apple cider isolated in my room with the sound of Gregorian chants in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLpOvvdRTXM
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>>7718323
>abbot
meant abbey
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RIP xD
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>>7718310
The Guardian reported it just now
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>>7718344
Best Freudian slip in a while now.
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Oh come the fuck on
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>>7718310
>>7718261
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/700838127917670401
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This is such a fucking bummer. Plebs everywhere lauding him vacuously or insulting him without second thoughts because they don't know anything about his work other than fucking Name of the Rose. He was such a great, lucid voice in semiotics, narration theory and cultural analysis, but most idiots will remember him as a novelist only, and it fucking hurts.
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>>7718377
Any fine works to start with his non novel ouvre?
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Deaths come in three... Who will be third guys?

I'm betting Kundera or Richard Adams because they're old as fuck.
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>>7718377
>only *I* truly knew him and only *I* can truly mourn for him, while you are all filthy peasants and idiots who don't deserve to pay respect to him because you can't into semiotics

Consider suicide
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>>7718377
First Eco book I ever read was on scientific methodologies. Good shit.

I wouldn't be bothered with 'plebs' lauding him for his fiction. They've never read them for a reason, I lost count on the amount of people who gave up on his novels less than 100 pages in.
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>>7718403
George RR Martin.
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>>7718403
It's gonna be Pinecone
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Why is there no sticky for this?
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>My first husbando was William... 22 years ago. Fuck, time is cruel.
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>>7718430
he's too patrish for the plebs of lit, face it, only a few lit ppl are tru patrish, most are just memetards with borderline retardation but think they're smart because they think they are white even tho they are probably hispanic or irish or something, true patrish bros i salute u rip in peace umberto
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>>7718430
yurops asleep, tho it is a bit disheartening considering peak Friday times
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>>7718387
Depends on your interests, I guess. That's part of what made him so great, he could take on anything. If you're into theory, go for Opera Aperta or his semiotic work. If you're more of a cultural/historic kind of guy, like myself, I'd suggest On Ugliness or Apocalypse Postponed. Of cpurse, there's a lot of semiotics there as well, it's the basis of his thought, but they're more grounded and accessible books to start with.

>>7718406
>>7718407

I'm not bothered by the plebs that only like his fiction in themselves, I just think it's sad that such a great man will be mostly remembered by 1 book (b/c let's be honest, they're not talking about Pendulum or The Prague Cemetery), which isn't even his best.

The idiots that compare him to Dan Brown unironically do infuriate me, tho.
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>>7718387
The Open Work, The Absent Structure and Apocalypse Postponed
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>>7718430
That's because a lot of people thought Grass was already dead... Like that Mandela effect.
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>>7718443
>>7718443
>The idiots that compare him to Dan Brown unironically do infuriate me

Yeah, it bothers me a little when people compare Foucault's Pendulum to The Da Vinci Code.
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>>7718198
Dan Brown d'italia? Ma che cazzo ti dice la testa?
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It's true. Huh, RIP in Piece Italian Dan Brown.
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Eco used to be more popular around here, I wonder what happened.
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Fucking sticky this, mods.
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RIP in pieces semiotic man
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>>7718173
Fuck you
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Mods won't sticky this because they have no idea who he is. Faggots can't even read.
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>>7718469
People don't like semiotics anymore?
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>>7718490
I wish I hadn't read FP.
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>>7718504
whye
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KILLING SPREE

>not either Lee or Eco stickies yet

this means there is someone next who'll die.

I bet for Murakami.
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literally who
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I've heard from many people that he wasn't that great of a writer. Still, RIP.
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>>7718522
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>>7718504
Then go back to reading Enders Fame for the ninth time you pedestrian loser.

Not even memeing and banting, but if you haven't read his essays and criticisms you should, by and large superior to his novels.
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>>7718528
"Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain"
- Friedrich Schiller
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>dead white man

dropped
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>>7718543
Say what you're trying to say without using quotes, you talentless fuck.
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>>7718162
So did John 'John' Green. WHAT IS HAPPENING
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>>7718567
Quotes are a symbol of a constellation of symbols

They're beautiful
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>>7718543
>translation.
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>>7718162
hurry up and sticky it o lords of /lit/.
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quick someone check on Pynchon and Cormac
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>>7718566
#WeNeedMoreDiverseDeadAuthors
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>>7718566
>italians
>white
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>>7718566
>Italian
>White
I don't think so, gaucho.
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>>7718573
That's a stupid thought. People were inventing constellations since forever using whatever stars they chose, and people to this day still do. That just helps the other anon's point.
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>>7718198
POrCo DIOOOo anon cosa cazzo dici
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>>7718591
The quote itself becomes the ideological symbol that defines it's referent author

Quotes add another level of semiotic depth to any discussion
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literally who?
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>>7718606
stay pleb shitling
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>>7718606
Dan Brown of Italy.
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>>7718612
stop...
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>>7718597
>The quote itself becomes the ideological symbol

what this means?
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>>7718174
Here's hoping for Coelho
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>>7718597
But the author exists in a continuity of billions of other people. Nobody can claim license to the thought that 'weapons are neither good or evil, human choices are', and recent academics who have are forgettable. Over time, the thoughts themselves are what matters, and they will permute to better fit individuals, not the people who said them best.
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>>7718650
Basically this, namedropping a quote's author is like thinking pictures are essential to a novel. Not needed, and people should be able to imagine their own images.
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>>7718162
I could never get into him. Not for any real fault of his writing (with the exception to his book on hyperreality often being confused for the platonic definition of simulacra) but it's sad to hear that he died. I always had an inkling that I'd be able to enjoy his fiction at a later date.
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Rest in peace, Umberto. I really enjoyed The Name of The Rose and Prague's Cematery. Will look forward Focault's Pendulum.
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He was literally a cuck who felt excited about American black soldiers ravishing Italian fascist maidens at the end of WWII.

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

>A few days later I saw the first American soldiers. They were African Americans. The first Yankee I met was a black man, Joseph, who introduced me to the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li'l Abner. His comic books were brightly colored and smelled good.

>One of the officers (Major or Captain Muddy) was a guest in the villa of a family whose two daughters were my schoolmates. I met him in their garden where some ladies, surrounding Captain Muddy, talked in tentative French. Captain Muddy knew some French, too. My first image of American liberators was thus – after so many palefaces in black shirts – that of a cultivated black man in a yellow-green uniform saying: "Oui, merci beaucoup, Madame, moi aussi j'aime le champagne..."
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>>7718698
He was praising black people at the level they merited. Remember he banged a couple of Brazilian girls, so the cuckery evens out.
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He's actually a legitimate author so of course his death doesn't get a sticky
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Arrivaderci il principe dolce.

>>7718232
Maybe it's some post-modern trick of his
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>>7718725
>my mom is brazilian
>Eco might be my dad
>but then my dad is a cuck
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>>7718731
Major news outlet says he's dead:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368
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>>7718698
whats wrong with that?
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>>7718698
what part of the article does he let another man have intercourse with his wife?
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>>7718754
The word "cuckold" is on its way to becoming a general purpose insult.
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>>7718754
he meant that eco encouraged black men sexing women of his own race, i think hes one of those impotent whites who thinks the white race or wtf needs to stay pure
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People who've gotten stickies for their deaths: Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Hitchens

People who didn't: Jose Saramago, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass

Seems like mods need to go back to r-ddit.
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>>7718770
what part of the article does he encourage black men to bed Italian women? I seem to have missed that as well
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>>7718779
I seem to remember Marquez getting a sticky. I'm almost sure he did.
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>>7718767
And to think 4chan is going to take credit for the fact, even though that's not where it started.
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>>7718787
who is 4chan?
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>>7718779
>Iain Banks
Did he seriously get a sticky?? I loved The Crow Road, but he's not a major author and barely gets mentioned around here, what did I miss?
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>>7718789
A mysterious hacker.
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>>7718786
He absolutely did not. You're probably experiencing confabulation.

>>7718791
He got a sticky because mods are illiterate dorks who only read science fiction and fantasy
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>>7718767
Good. It would be a better general purpose insult, since it demeans beta white males, inspiring them not to be pussies.
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>>7718779
mods confirmed for Britbongs
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>>7718802
>He absolutely did not. You're probably experiencing confabulation.
Shit. I remember being in threads on the day of his death, but I guess I didn't realize they weren't stickies.

That's a damn shame - he deserved better.
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>>7718805
J D Salinger didn't even get a sticky, but then he died exactly a week after /lit/ was created.
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>>7718823
Sounds like a conspiracy theory forming.
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>>7718162
This is actually kind of saddening.
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>>7718830
If some other minor British writer dies and gets a sticky, I think it'll be confirmed.
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>>7718823
Samuel Beckett didn't even get a sticky when he died.
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>>7718162
Riposa In Pace
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>>7718853
He died too long ago to have.
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>>7718779
Don't dog us mods, he needs a sticky.
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>>7718162
More sad about our whipping boy John John Green passing
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>>7718232
NY Times is reporting his death. They've basically never been duped before. Very reliable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/international/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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>>7718232
lmao this is a genius reverse-hoax
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Harper Lee died today as well, is she going to get a sticky?
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>>7718162
:O

Legit my favorite writter.

Read Foucalt Pendulum and I loved it.
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>>7718865
Pablo Neruda didn't either. I sense a Mod Conspiracy.
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>>7718897
The sad thing is that she might.
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>>7718897
She really doesn't need one. It's sad she died though.
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It's not sad for an 80+-year-old person to die, it's just expected.
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>>7718932
Sadness is a human response to an event, not a quality innate to the event.

learn to differentiate the qualities of the object and the observer.
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>>7718932
>Le transfiguration may may
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>>7718939
Speaking of which, we never got a sticky for Immanuel Kant either

M O D S
O
D
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>>7718162
what?? no!

His books are fun...
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>>7719008
You can still read them.
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>>7718162
Do your job for once and sticky this, mods.
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So, which ones are better, the semiotics books or the novels?
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>>7719056
The short stories.
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>>7719008
>reading for enjoyment
>reading for plot
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I wish he'd taken me with him.
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>>7719032
why? most of the discussion is in one thread anyway. Stickies are only useful for when people are creating multiple threads on the topic
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Are the mods going to sticky the shit out of this or are they too busy cleaning up after last night's wet dream?
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>>7719091
What happened last night?
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>wikpedia lists Harper Lee's passing
>not Eco's
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>>7719112
>he's not dead
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>>7719112
>Wikipedia posts Harper Lee's passing
>but not Thomas Pynchon's
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>>7718198

Ma vaffanculo idiota
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>>7719112
it hasn't been official as long
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yo it's real
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>>7719121
You scared me. :(
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>>7719138
>hasn't been officia
The Family told a newspaper
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>>7719158
"as long"
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another talented vaporwave artist gone
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/nov/12/umberto-eco-real-literature-is-about-losers

I only looked into him recently because he seems really honest in his interviews, glad I did, any one know of some other good video interviews he gave?
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>>7719174
kek
good album though
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>>7719182
>“I am not denying that conspiracies exist, but the real ones are discovered. The assassination of Julius Caesar was a conspiracy – it was a success, it was well known … the Gunpowder plot was a conspiracy. So the real conspiracies are always discovered. The powerful ones are the ones which do not exist; you cannot demonstrate that they are not there so they continue to flow in the public mind and they can nourish a lot of naïve people.”

Nice
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Requiescat in pizza.
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>>7719210
So he admits that all he is doing in all his novels is nourishing naive plebs? Do what you gotta do to get a dollar bill, I guess.
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>>7718162
Came to post this as well

>>7718168
Yes, and how so
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>>7718310
It's on BBC as well now. It's pretty certain.
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>>7719243
I think he'll be buried in Bolognese rather than Pizza.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/international/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html?_r=0
>Able to deliver lectures in five modern languages, as well as in Latin and classical Greek, Mr. Eco crisscrossed the Atlantic for academic conferences, book tours and celebrity cocktail parties. Impish, bearded and a chain-smoker, he enjoyed bantering over cheap wine with his students late into the night at taverns in Bologna.
eco confirmed for top bantz
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>>7719293
>Able to deliver lectures in five modern languages, as well as in Latin and classical Greek
Time to join him.
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>>7718306
Currently reading the Prague Cemetery, it's pretty good.
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>>7719293
HEPTALINGUAL BANTZ
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>>7718162
Rest in peace.
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>>7718566
He's morbidly obese. That's considered diverse now.
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>>7718403
most likely William Gass
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>>7718403
Philip Roth. I'm calling it.
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>>7718232
this would please the man himself greatly
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>>7718173
He'll be fine
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What does that have to do with his literature?
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>Someone who wrote bad infodump novels that hasn't been relevant since the 80's died.
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>>7718403
John Green. In the pantry, with a candlestick.
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>>7718403
Mira's yeast infections finally got the best of her.
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>>7719712
http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/25/this-woman-is-making-sourdough-bread-out-of-her-vaginal-yeast-5523443/
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>>7718403
>tfw Harper Lee just kicked the bucket
Well, there's one more and has anyone read 'To kill a Mockingbird'?
Is it a good read if it's not for a book report?
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>>7718162
Best novel?
>Name of the rose
>Focault's pendulum
>island of day before
>baudolino
>queen loana
>prague cemetery
>number zero

Best essay?
>inb4 nobody reads essays
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He was a naive pan-Europeanist who thought the EU had a future.
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>>7719738
jesus christ how couldn't you read such a book yet. Are you 8yo or something?
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>>7719742
>>queen loana
I think we can all agree that this one is the *worst*

As an ex-conspiracy obsessed kid I can't help but love Foucault's Pendulum
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>>7719745
Just think he had his whole life as an accomplished writer, decades of time devoted to thought, reason and logic, and you just smashed down his castle with a single sentence. Are you the Death of Nations?

Seriously though mate, do you really think (after actual consideration) that your ideas outweigh those of any grown man? Most of what you know is based on what you think not what you have concluded after a period of thought.
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>>7719846
Time makes all people ridiculous. Those willing to ridicule the dead are simply those willing to acknowledge the future. You can see this fact in the anon's choice of criticism: political naïveté.
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>>7719862
>Those willing to ridicule the dead are simply those willing to acknowledge the future.
>I'm 12 and this is deep
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Good, now when can I buy his 30000 book library?
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>>7719827
>>7719742
What do you think about Number Zero? Isn't using a real life conspiracy like cheating?
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>>7718198
Non offendere dan Brown
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>>7719871
Get mad all you want it won't bring back your precious semiotician =]
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>>7718162
Yeah, heard it on the radio just now. Goddamn 2016.

Related: Are his newest books good? I only read Focault's Pendulum and Baudolino. Liked those, especially because I have some interest in their subject matters.
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>>7719917
You need to ransack it.
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>>7718162
>84 and still writing
Hell be fine.
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SOON
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>>7718198
You disgusting sick fuck
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>>7718279
What insignificantly inferior mind we got here.
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>>7719056
Non fictional writing indeed
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>>7718198

>be dan brown
>be american fag
>''yo italy is full of mysteries, we should make stories on this shit''
>obviously americans don't want to study foreign history because is futile for their democracy and freedom

>literally post some conspirational shit
>''we wuz jesus''
>''the pope is evil''
>''muh religion is shit m8''
>make the worst thriller ever
>muh illuminati
>sells million copies
>''if this shit sells a lot it must be surely god-tier''
>yfw you realize that Dan Brown shittly writes Infowars-tier shit

>mfw shit like Fabio Volo's books are first in sells ranking in Italy
>mfw shit like Divergent or Hunger Games sells

>mfw people mistook Maze Runner with Blade Runner
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>>7719742
You just list them randomly, with your bad hipster purposes, rite? you didin't read Queen loana and Number Zero for sure: they are definitely not worth reading
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ciao umberto
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Sopravvalutatissimo
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gabagol
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>>7718162
Who?
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>>7718377

He wasn't though. He had nothing new to add to the field since Batches owned it.
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>>7718198
dan brown was a figment, eco has alluded to it multiple times, see pic related. it's a favorite idea of his in fact, creating "truths" out of lies. also in pic related, you can see that dan brown mysteriously died the same time as umberto eco. quite obviously this isn't a coincidence... and if you disagree then you're just a retard.

i actually haven't read any eco novels, just some of his essays and semiotics shit. oh, and granita i guess.
are his novels good?
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>>7720327
oh whoops, here's the other pic i forgot to append to that one.
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>>7720327
>>7720332
Not sure if this is an elaborate ruse but Dan ' Da Vinci Code' Brown is not dead.
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>>7718456
kek, thats exactly how I describe Focault's Pendulum too people "Its like Dan Brown, but for adults"

And seeing as how its one I've my favorite books, Ive actually recc'd it a lot
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>>7720341
you can see right there my friend, he died at the same time and date as mr. eco precisely.
and when you read the excerpt of the interview, surely you can sense eco winking, grinning, and whispering to you "i suspect he may not exist because i made dan brown up, he's a fuckin' falsehood my man!"
it was most likely a big semiotics illusion. as an analogy, that sort of dan-brown-existence kind of thing wouldn't be unlike a house of mirrors in reverse wrapped around the inner surface of a camera obscura.
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>>7718198
bravo
davvero
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At the funeral, someone needs to knock loudly on the coffin, and say "Is there an Eco in here?"
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>>7720443
he would've liked that, I think
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSOvDAyH5c
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>>7718198
ma porcoiddio sti bait del cazzo pure in ste situazioni sono di una tristezza immensa
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Am I the only one who didn't really care for Foucault's Pendulum? Sure, the effort he put in was admirable but I still felt it was all a bit much. Nothing to write home about.
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I distinctly remember the first time I read Foucault's Pendulum. I got a boner at the part where he described the nun having a shaved pussy.
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>>7720497
Fuck, i'll miss him
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>>7718403
Harold Bloom seems most likely
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>tfw nature is getting rid of old authors
Geez I just hope Pynchon doesn't die this year
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>>7720585
That's OK, more space to publish for us upcoming writers to publish our amazing magna opera

ha ha ha....;_;
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>>7720327
Everything about this guy just sounds like a ripoff of Borges.
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>>7718403
Salman Rushdie.
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>>7720506
The part about how girls play pinball gets me everytime
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>>7718584

implying we will even know when Pynchon dies
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They're dropping like flies. There's not going to be any writers left in this generation.
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>>7720057
>people mistook Maze Runner with Blade Runner
Oh tell me that is true.
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>>7720606
Eco was invented by Borges
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Whom?
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>>7720057
Why has no one killed Fabio Volo yet? He's like one of the most hateful people Italy has.
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>>7720845
now THAT I believe...
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He wrote a handful of infodump potboilers of declining quality. His academic work was negligable popculture criticism, and nowhere near as important to literatire or philosophy as Rene Girard, whose death /lit/ barely noticed because he wasn't on the shortlist of approved mainstream intellectuals.
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>>7719293
>Able to deliver lectures in five modern languages
Don't tell me Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and English?
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And nothing of value was lost. Can Coelho and Chomsky hit the dust soon, too?
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>>7719745
>naive
Britcuck please go. Umberto Eco was a great european who at is worst was far better than you'll ever be.

>>7720057
The Name of the Rose was Eco doing a Jerry Lewis-film. But Brown made Lewis into Jesus.
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>>7721152
There's no future in the EU.
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>>7721157
wash and wipe. wash and wipe...
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I've only got The Island of the Day Before by Eco, good for starting with him or should I just get something like Prague Cemetery or The Name of the Rose.
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>>7721144
You seem right. It might be because the archive's been down, but I can't find a single post about Girard from November 4 to today
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>>7721182
>Prague Cemetery

this is especially funny because the charachter is /pol/ incarnate
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>>7721214
You're really posting this on the literature board...?
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>>7718162

My man died today. Or maybe yesterday? I can't be sure.
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>>7721220
Where do you think you are?
More importantly what are trying to imply? The fact I posted an anime adaptation of a VN doesn't mean the same isn't true for literature.
Stupid hipster.
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>>7719745
This, I'm sad he didn't live long enough to watch his European dream unravel as bands of refugees engage in orgiastic rapefests around the continent.
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>>7721248
That maudlin shit is less authentic than a John Green novel. lol
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>>7721248
If you need to post a sad anime, try a Takahata film or something
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