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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I'd like to shoot James Joyce out of a western cannon.

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Three words: Harry. Freaking. Potter.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I think all fiction should be considered non-canon, because it didn't really happen, and it's really starting to confuse the wiki.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I don't know why we even need this thread when the Pratchett thread is right there.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ZombieLenin posted:

Das Kapital, The Phenomenology of Spirit, The Critique of Pure Reason, all of Aristotle's surviving works, Two Treatises of Government, the Leviathan, The Gay Science, The Panopticon, Dialectic of The Enlightenment, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, City of God, Summa Theologica, Don Quixote, Complete Works of Shakespeare, The German Ideology, On the Concept of History, the Bible...

poo poo I could go on and on. Why on earth did you ask this question?
Das Kapital doesn't count. Socialism is Islamic, and fundamentally incompatible with Western thought.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Stravinsky posted:

The idea of canon does not necessarilly mean a written list or w/e by some jackoff. Society has decided for one reason or another that certain works are more important than others. The way literature is taught is schools is based on the idea of there being a canon, that knowing Shakespeare is more important than one of his contemporaries.
Wait, what's that, all of literature is an ongoing conversation on great works and their effects upon the reader, just like everything in any living culture ever?

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

CestMoi posted:

This , but for video games.
To Kill A Parakoopa

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Seriously though can we talk about Bioshock: Infinite in this thread?

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Was not expecting Al Jazeera.

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