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03-23-2010, 06:37 PM
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It's a narrative fiction. Yes, it is literature.
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03-23-2010, 07:20 PM
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Perhaps we're arguing semantics. When I think "literature," I think of works that are actually important.
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03-23-2010, 07:25 PM
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It is one of the most successful comic book series ever, so it really depends on if you think the comic book medium is important or not.
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03-23-2010, 07:40 PM
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Obviously, I do not.
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03-23-2010, 07:50 PM
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You're a dying breed though, tons of universities study comic books now in English courses, its how I was introduced to Maus and Persepolis.
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03-23-2010, 09:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
Obviously, I do not.
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Safe Area Goražde.
Case closed.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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03-24-2010, 03:07 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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I don't really consider comics literature. An pastime worth spending time on, yes, a serious form of literature, no.
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03-24-2010, 03:25 AM
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There is nothing serious about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and there is nothing in it that is of great importance, but it is still literature.
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03-24-2010, 05:38 AM
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Pamphlets on how to not get syph are called literature, too. Is that the meaning you're using?
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03-24-2010, 06:41 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Missouri
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Probably something from one of the twilight books. I'd get it done in Chinese symbols though so the twilight haterz wouldn't bully me. I'd get it on the back of my neck.
Actually I think I will do this.
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03-24-2010, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
Pamphlets on how to not get syph are called literature, too. Is that the meaning you're using?
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I think you're just teasing, but again, comic books are written and drawn stories, if you exclude them as literature why not exclude classic picture books like The Velveteen Rabbit?
And now I want to read Safe Area Goražde, that looks good.
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03-24-2010, 02:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
Perhaps we're arguing semantics. When I think "literature," I think of works that are actually important.
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V for Vendetta and Watchmen are perfect examples of comics that were at least they were important enough to both earn movies and over $100 million in gross revenue.
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03-24-2010, 03:03 PM
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Important=/=money.
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03-24-2010, 03:09 PM
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Comics are great and are obviously legitimate examples of literature. Alan Moore is king.
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03-24-2010, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
Important=/=money.
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No, but money can imply importance. Assume $10 per ticket and everyone saw the movie twice. That's roughly 6 million people who saw the movie.
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03-24-2010, 04:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
You're a dying breed though, tons of universities study comic books now in English courses, its how I was introduced to Maus and Persepolis.
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I have bought multiple copies of Maus and given them away as gifts to my friends, it really is a classic and a unique way to describe The Holocaust. It is definitely important literature.
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03-24-2010, 05:16 PM
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Sandman is hideously overrated in terms of literary merit. And I own the entire series. Gayman pulls shit out his ass near constantly throughout the whole story. A lot of the illustrations are remarkably good though.
Don't let the faggy cocksucking pseudo-intellectual foreword fool you teens!
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03-25-2010, 11:58 AM
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Sandman is an amazing piece of literature. It's one of my favorites. Watchmen and Bone are also excellent works.
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03-29-2010, 10:24 PM
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I saw a nice one on another forum, I should ask her if I could repost the picture, this chick has a tattoo of an onion (its actually pretty) with the quote "I may be wicked, but still I gave an onion."
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03-30-2010, 10:51 AM
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I always thought of getting a line from one of Baudelaire's poems.
Or the quote "For the future, let those who come to play with me have no hearts" from Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta; because it's the most recent one that caught my fancy.
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03-30-2010, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Jonathan
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Oooh, that's a cute idea.
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04-03-2010, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Southern California
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"Ulthar". I would get that somewhere on me, but I haven't thought of a choice spot yet. For those who don't know, "Ulthar" is the title of my favorite Lovecraft story, it is the name of the town in which the story takes place.
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04-24-2010, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'Twere better than the cold reality
Edgar Allan Poe. Escapism is, in the opinion of yours truly, everything.
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05-11-2010, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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It is the beating of his hideous heart
Although I like the idea of Don't Panic
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05-11-2010, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
You're a dying breed though, tons of universities study comic books now in English courses, its how I was introduced to Maus and Persepolis.
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I leant my friend a copy of Maus to prove to her that comics are not just the funnies in the newspaper or super heroes fighting villains.
She has just borrowed my Persepolis and Fun Home.
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