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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 7:20 am 
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I'd suggest Ld00d set up a Book Club section but I think that'd be confusing given the goings-on at Calavera.

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I learned more about this book from Thug Notes than I ever understood when I was forced to read that piece of shit in high school. That fucking instructor made us analyze every bit of "symbolism" in that book. Worst class I've ever taken. :evil:

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worth a double post. couldn't wait to get past that book as well.

where was this guy when i was suffering through this in english?


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Poor Jay Gatsby;
Nose pressed up against your mansion window;
There's no happiness for you here;
Only death.

That poem got me an "A" in a high school literature class.

What the teacher didn't know was that on the last episode of Happy Days I watched before doing my assignment, a beatnik recited the following poem:

Poor canary;
Beak pressed up against the pet store window;
There's no happiness for you here;
Only death.

Happy Days and Thug Notes prove that knowledge and inspiration can be found in unlikely places.

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