This filtered hundreds of thousands of American english literature undergraduates
>>25559553>Michaelmas TermI give up
>>25559553Americans can't read, next
It's not hard but ngl senpai this shit is annoying to read. Maybe I'm just too used to pre-XIXth century lit but this seems overly snappy.
>>25559553what are aits? All else seemed straightforward enough.
i think the word "wonderful" throws people off. he uses it to mean "strange" or "unusual" but to us today it means more like something happy
>LONDONStopped reading right there
>>25559574small river islands>>25559611probably, but knowing you're reading an older book you may well just stop and think: and it's in the word itself: (no) wonder (marvel, miracle).
>>25559611>i think the word "wonderful" throws retards offftfy
>>25559553>IN CHANCERY
>>25559553>This filtered hundreds of thousands of il/lit/erates
>>25559690>I have read the first one hundred pages at least three times, and then, longing for a story, I never got further. - The New York Times
>>25559553>starts with the weather>doesn't even mention the main character>no action>can delete the entire first paragraph and start with Fog Everywhere>Fragments everywhere>tells and doesn't show>repetitive phrasing>flakes of soot as snowflake (What the fuck is this idiot writing)>dozen instances of the word "fog" in one fucking paragraphHoly fuck who the fuck taught this moron to write? He's fucking shit. How the fuck did this jeet lover get published?Terrible fucking prose, terrible first few chapters, terrible.
>>25559753>How the fuck did this jeet lover get published?>You know faces, when they are not brown; you know common experiences when they are not under turbans; Look at the dogs – low, treacherous, murderous, tigerous villians.> I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects, “I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities.”
I find it incredibly hard to believe people that went to university specifically to be educated in literature have trouble with this.
>>25559553>americansSays it all, really. Only a country of unliterate retards could think writers such as Hemingway or Fitzgerald could compete with the European greats.
>>25559792KEK
>>25559553Funnily enough today is Michaelmas.
>>25559690>The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonneronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!)Didn’t have to name the file though
>>25559553Meeting a Megalosaurus would indeed be wonderful (marvelous), a dinosaur fantasy tale would be more interesting than reading about dirty depressed people in poverty
>>25560089W T F
To be fair, there are a bunch of terms and expressions in there that I don't know the meaning of either.>Michaelmas (from context I presume it's a holiday)>Aits>Collier-brigs>Parapets>HusandmanIn my defense, English is not my first language.
>>25560442>ParapetIf you ever played Heroes of Might and Magic, this is where you hire Gargoyles
>>25559792>here's your kindhearted socialist champion of the oppressed, bro
>>25559553Seems easy enough to read to me. I’m not a fan of Dickens, but if you can read Moby Dick you should be able to handle this, regardless of your place of birth.
>>25559690What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh!
>>25559807>unliterate*illiterate
>>25560648*unilateral
>>25560695*lateralus
>>25560442that's why you read such stuff on e-reader and checking those will take you a very small amount of time
>>25559553>it would not be wonderful to meet a MegalosaurusSo corny...
>>25560648Kek you got me. I was half asleep when I made that reply. I will kindly see myself out.
>>25559792I kneel...
>>25560089A blessed day to you, anon
>>25559553mm time to settle into my favourite bait thread
