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  1. Joseph K

    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    I thought commandment complemented the previous biblical allusion rather nicely, but as you wish. So you're suggesting that verbosity is a concomitant of intelligence and thus those who aren't Onanistic (another Biblical allusion, old sport - try Genesis Chapter 38 for a complete definition...
  2. Joseph K

    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    But on a more serious note apropos obfuscation; Gregor; I think it's entirely fantastic to see you taking a stand against the emerging trend of prolixity. Isn't it enough to make one lacrymate that society now venerates at the altar of verbosity? Today's prevailing literary movement, which...
  3. Joseph K

    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    My sincerest apologies for the offending error old sport, one can hardly become accustomed to this automated computation when he spends his time writing his memoirs with a feather quill dressed in a smoking jacket. "Much of his work displays prescience, of which 'Politics and the English...
  4. Joseph K

    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    Today was ever-so gangbusters with regard to the general weekly trend of capitalistic excess (specifically pertaining to the acquisition of books and paraphernalia related to the consumption thereof!) I was beginning to feel that my propensity to consume (tomes) at such a rate without having...
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