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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
So, I'd like to extend the following invite to any on this site. Lets thumbwrestle for three shirtless private rounds in an alley of my choice, and see who's left victorious: my 6'2”, 200 pound, tattooed, 57 year old military veteran Bronx-born poetry writing streetfighting ass or your nerdy and ignorant Silicon Folly digitized selves.
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Starting out by casting Nazi aspersions on anyone who chooses a way to read books that you dislike, despite them not seeking to restrict other people's freedom of choice and no moving into internet tough guy mode, its almost like you have been given a script to follow on how to troll people on the internet.
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If defeated, I'll French with a Kindle but if you go down, you must not only toss your device but read in full classics that I'll list, ranging from Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Homer and the Old Testament to Flaubert, Tolstoy, Babel, Stendahl, Proust and George Eliot, to name but a few.
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I wonder if you realise the irony, by far the easiest way for anyone to read your chosen list would be with an ebook reader since such classic works are far more readily available that way than they would be in a local bookstore and indeed some of them are probably already on plenty of the ebook readers of MR forum members.