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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Stable > BOTM: SEPTEMBER: THE MAGUS by John Fowles
 
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A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

OscarDiggs posted:

To be fair, that's a hard lesson to learn. I only learned so in the past few weeks.

How old are you??

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A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

OscarDiggs posted:

28. But hey, I only just learnt it. font color sea apparently didn't know. Maybe the problem isn't that we're dumb, but that you're just a genius?

Eh, it's probably both.

As an aside, where DID you learn these things? I never went to university so if we're supposed to learn these little rules there I'm way out of luck. I'm pretty sure it was never covered at secondary school either.

i am a genius, but i don't understand why you would need you learn this like it's a maths equation. like, a person in real life can already say things that they dont actually believe. if a person writes a fictional book, then its even easier for them to say stuff they dont actually believe or think is positive or approve of, because its not them the person talking anymore.

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