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2013-08-06 04:37 4004179 Anonymous (i-came-here-to-laugh-at-you.jpg 500x375 19kB)
>mfw writing a report saying Moby Dick was a satirical work supporting transcendentalism

4 min later 4004197 Anonymous
>>4004179 Glorious

4 min later 4004199 Celebes (Herman_Melville_1860.jpg 259x388 79kB)
>>4004179 >satirical work But that's wrong and you are a total faggot

5 min later 4004203 Anonymous
>>4004199 I don't know man, the author seems pretty dead to me.

10 min later 4004225 Celebes
>>4004203 what?

12 min later 4004233 Anonymous
>>4004225 >doesn't know about the intentional fallacy laughingcontinentals.gif

13 min later 4004236 Celebes
>>4004233 Please stop and change your paper

13 min later 4004237 Anonymous
Satire doesn't exist in DOTA you dolt

1 hours later 4004460 Anonymous
>>4004225 Death of the Author by Barthes. Do yourself a favor and read it. Then and only then will you truly be free (to interpret literary works)

1 hours later 4004463 Celebes
>>4004460 Ah, I assumed some postmodern thing. Less familiar with that. I've read Barthes Mythologies but not that. Thanks. Even though it sounds silly.

1 hours later 4004467 Anonymous
>>4004463 It is the same death of the author that you were thinking it was.

2 hours later 4004508 Anonymous
>>4004463 >barthes >not silly

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