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Why are there no great works of German literature?

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deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
Some first-tier authors: Goethe, Schiller, Grimm brothers, K...
flickering area corn cake
  10/25/18
autism
lascivious pearl mexican set
  10/25/18
What about My Struggle?
Gold house athletic conference
  10/25/18
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disturbing round eye
  10/25/18
this is the wrong tree to bark up.
bearded ungodly trust fund
  10/25/18
faust is a world classic, bro
amber bawdyhouse dingle berry
  10/25/18
so are all the Grimm brothers fairy tales imo
flickering area corn cake
  10/25/18
Didn't realize GC stole those stories from German authors.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
One of them was even named Wilhelm to go undercover among Ge...
rebellious racy pit
  10/25/18
jfc you philistine
Floppy sandwich
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deep costumed senate mental disorder
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amethyst excitant sneaky criminal
  10/14/19
Ever heard of Nietzsche?
Abnormal Skinny Woman
  10/25/18
That’s philosophy.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
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Vivacious organic girlfriend
  10/25/18
(Continental loser who needs to go baxk)
yellow supple native travel guidebook
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Vivacious organic girlfriend
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Beady-eyed main people step-uncle's house
  10/25/18
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Vivacious organic girlfriend
  10/26/18
literally Plato's Cave
carnelian metal persian
  10/26/18
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Vivacious organic girlfriend
  10/26/18
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Vivacious organic girlfriend
  10/26/18
Literature has characters. Philosophy has big picture.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
What about poetry?
Abnormal Skinny Woman
  10/25/18
always strange to me that they just lump in poetry with the ...
carnelian metal persian
  10/25/18
Poetry is literature.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
not according to libraries
carnelian metal persian
  10/25/18
Shitlibs told me learning Dewey decimal was an important ski...
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
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Provocative aquamarine stag film private investor
  10/25/18
Many people consider his actual writing to be the best in th...
Abnormal Skinny Woman
  10/25/18
haha wow holy shit rook germans have no riterature
Titillating geriatric digit ratio resort
  10/25/18
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stimulating dun quadroon
  10/25/18
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walnut flirting becky circlehead
  10/25/18
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carmine ticket booth
  10/25/18
"On The Jews and Their Lies" by Martin Luther
razzmatazz base useless brakes
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Sooty Big Chapel
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stimulating dun quadroon
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lascivious pearl mexican set
  10/25/18
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hairraiser indecent address ladyboy
  10/14/19
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Charcoal learning disabled hospital scourge upon the earth
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Heady stage
  10/14/19
Storm of Steel
Bonkers Abode
  10/25/18
Junger Uber Alles
thriller theatre twinkling uncleanness
  10/25/18
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Bonkers Abode
  10/25/18
Eumeswil was also very underrated
lascivious pearl mexican set
  10/25/18
Utterly stupid OP. Learn German first.
Sooty Big Chapel
  10/25/18
(guy who's never read Goethe, Kafka, Schiller, Mann, Brecht,...
Wonderful Harsh Center
  10/25/18
I'm very uncultured.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
Suffice it to say that there are a lot of great German write...
Wonderful Harsh Center
  10/25/18
Metamorphosis and Der Prozess are two of the GOAT works of l...
flickering area corn cake
  10/25/18
I actually did read Metamorphosis but the text didn't seem l...
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
You might have read a great translation. Translation of lite...
flickering area corn cake
  10/25/18
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Beady-eyed main people step-uncle's house
  10/25/18
kafka was a czech writing in german
ebony station yarmulke
  10/14/19
they're beasts of burden
Very Tactful Gay Wizard
  10/25/18
same reason there are no great works of german music
misunderstood opaque cruise ship legend
  10/25/18
C- flame
Crimson gaming laptop
  10/25/18
kafka and goethe are wholly overrated same with mann and he...
exciting alpha
  10/25/18
And Gunter Grass
Bonkers Abode
  10/25/18
rilke, otoh, rivals any poet before or since imo
exciting alpha
  10/25/18
Isn’t Kafka a Czech Jew?
concupiscible sick den
  10/25/18
aren't we talking about literature written in german
exciting alpha
  10/25/18
I thought we were talking about literature by Germans writte...
concupiscible sick den
  10/25/18
Yeah, what kind of bullshit is this? https://youtu.be/ycK...
rebellious racy pit
  10/25/18
Im Westen Nichts Neues
Crimson gaming laptop
  10/25/18
German cinema is very bad take out Herzog because he is Aust...
Bonkers Abode
  10/25/18
Magic Mountain is 178 and should resonate with poasters.
frum toaster
  10/25/18
lol what a fucking retarded "hot take" jfc
carnelian metal persian
  10/25/18
tbf not really most other european countries produced better...
lascivious pearl mexican set
  10/25/18
fine, but OP says "NO great works," which is clear...
carnelian metal persian
  10/25/18
Philosophy is over the head of 95% of ppl.
deep costumed senate mental disorder
  10/25/18
yeah only spergs are into philosophy though
lascivious pearl mexican set
  10/25/18
Holderlin, Rilke, Celan
Sapphire impertinent rigpig
  10/25/18
They are an industrial people, and neither creative nor bril...
nighttime mood orchestra pit
  10/25/18
some truth to that
greedy bistre shrine hissy fit
  10/14/19
They don’t be on that bullshit
vigorous brass stock car cumskin
  10/26/18
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swashbuckling cowardly jap spot
  10/14/19
Lol
hairraiser indecent address ladyboy
  10/14/19


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Date: October 25th, 2018 1:51 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090532)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:01 AM
Author: flickering area corn cake

Some first-tier authors: Goethe, Schiller, Grimm brothers, Kafka, Brecht, Hesse, Mann, Frisch, Dürrenmatt, Grass.

But there is only one God-tier author: Shakespeare

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090557)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:01 AM
Author: lascivious pearl mexican set

autism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090562)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:06 AM
Author: Gold house athletic conference

What about My Struggle?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090575)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:01 AM
Author: disturbing round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090658)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:07 AM
Author: bearded ungodly trust fund

this is the wrong tree to bark up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090585)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:12 AM
Author: amber bawdyhouse dingle berry

faust is a world classic, bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090589)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: flickering area corn cake

so are all the Grimm brothers fairy tales imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090591)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:47 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

Didn't realize GC stole those stories from German authors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090687)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 4:38 AM
Author: rebellious racy pit

One of them was even named Wilhelm to go undercover among German authors, stealing them stories and whatnot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090739)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: Floppy sandwich

jfc you philistine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090592)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:19 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090602)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:46 AM
Author: amethyst excitant sneaky criminal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974377)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:21 AM
Author: Abnormal Skinny Woman

Ever heard of Nietzsche?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090606)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:24 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

That’s philosophy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090608)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: Vivacious organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090611)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:29 AM
Author: yellow supple native travel guidebook

(Continental loser who needs to go baxk)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090614)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:38 AM
Author: Vivacious organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090620)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 7:27 AM
Author: Beady-eyed main people step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090887)



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Date: October 26th, 2018 2:33 AM
Author: Vivacious organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37097952)



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Date: October 26th, 2018 2:34 AM
Author: carnelian metal persian

literally Plato's Cave

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37097956)



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Date: October 26th, 2018 2:38 AM
Author: Vivacious organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37097972)



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Date: October 26th, 2018 2:40 AM
Author: Vivacious organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37097980)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:58 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

Literature has characters. Philosophy has big picture.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090654)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 7:25 AM
Author: Abnormal Skinny Woman

What about poetry?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090882)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: carnelian metal persian

always strange to me that they just lump in poetry with the "non fiction" section of libraries (philosophy too, but I can understand that more). I mean, idk where else to put it, just seems odd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093528)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:56 PM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

Poetry is literature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093535)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:59 PM
Author: carnelian metal persian

not according to libraries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093550)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:03 PM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

Shitlibs told me learning Dewey decimal was an important skill to learn in elementary and middle school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093568)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:28 PM
Author: Provocative aquamarine stag film private investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093801)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 7:26 AM
Author: Abnormal Skinny Woman

Many people consider his actual writing to be the best in the German language.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090885)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: Titillating geriatric digit ratio resort

haha wow holy shit

rook germans have no riterature

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090610)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 6:16 AM
Author: stimulating dun quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090821)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: walnut flirting becky circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091739)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 1:04 PM
Author: carmine ticket booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37092667)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:37 AM
Author: razzmatazz base useless brakes

"On The Jews and Their Lies" by Martin Luther

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090618)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:03 AM
Author: Sooty Big Chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090661)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 6:16 AM
Author: stimulating dun quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090822)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: lascivious pearl mexican set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37092662)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:36 AM
Author: hairraiser indecent address ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974357)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:37 AM
Author: Charcoal learning disabled hospital scourge upon the earth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974359)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 10:07 AM
Author: Heady stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974432)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:38 AM
Author: Bonkers Abode

Storm of Steel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090619)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 5:28 AM
Author: thriller theatre twinkling uncleanness

Junger Uber Alles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090779)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Bonkers Abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091760)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: lascivious pearl mexican set

Eumeswil was also very underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091803)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:02 AM
Author: Sooty Big Chapel

Utterly stupid OP. Learn German first.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090659)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 5:11 AM
Author: Wonderful Harsh Center

(guy who's never read Goethe, Kafka, Schiller, Mann, Brecht, Hesse, or even the Brothers Grimm)

this has to be lazy bait

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090752)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 5:21 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

I'm very uncultured.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090771)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 5:26 AM
Author: Wonderful Harsh Center

Suffice it to say that there are a lot of great German writers. You should definitely read some of the names on that list, particularly Kafka, Goethe, and Schiller.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090776)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 5:34 AM
Author: flickering area corn cake

Metamorphosis and Der Prozess are two of the GOAT works of literature in any language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090789)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 6:13 AM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

I actually did read Metamorphosis but the text didn't seem like a translation at the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090820)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 6:18 AM
Author: flickering area corn cake

You might have read a great translation. Translation of literature (capturing all the different layers of tone etc etc, while producing something that reads well) must be incredibly hard. Most translations suck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090823)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 7:27 AM
Author: Beady-eyed main people step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37090889)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 10:06 AM
Author: ebony station yarmulke

kafka was a czech writing in german

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974428)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: Very Tactful Gay Wizard

they're beasts of burden

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091735)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: misunderstood opaque cruise ship legend

same reason there are no great works of german music

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091747)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Crimson gaming laptop

C- flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091758)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: exciting alpha

kafka and goethe are wholly overrated

same with mann and hesse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091754)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Bonkers Abode

And Gunter Grass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091764)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:10 AM
Author: exciting alpha

rilke, otoh, rivals any poet before or since imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091789)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: concupiscible sick den

Isn’t Kafka a Czech Jew?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091800)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:17 AM
Author: exciting alpha

aren't we talking about literature written in german

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091829)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: concupiscible sick den

I thought we were talking about literature by Germans written in German, but I guess there is some ambiguity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093589)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: rebellious racy pit

Yeah, what kind of bullshit is this?

https://youtu.be/ycKEgt5hHEU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093506)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:04 AM
Author: Crimson gaming laptop

Im Westen Nichts Neues

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091755)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: Bonkers Abode

German cinema is very bad take out Herzog because he is Austrian and slovene

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091836)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 11:20 AM
Author: frum toaster

Magic Mountain is 178 and should resonate with poasters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37091848)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 1:09 PM
Author: carnelian metal persian

lol what a fucking retarded "hot take" jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37092698)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:00 PM
Author: lascivious pearl mexican set

tbf not really most other european countries produced better literature

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093555)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:07 PM
Author: carnelian metal persian

fine, but OP says "NO great works," which is clearly wrong

also, their absolute supremacy in philosophy more than makes up for any deficiency

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093599)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:09 PM
Author: deep costumed senate mental disorder

Philosophy is over the head of 95% of ppl.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093609)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:36 PM
Author: lascivious pearl mexican set

yeah only spergs are into philosophy though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093858)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:26 PM
Author: Sapphire impertinent rigpig

Holderlin, Rilke, Celan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093777)



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Date: October 25th, 2018 3:27 PM
Author: nighttime mood orchestra pit

They are an industrial people, and neither creative nor brilliant in the arts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37093780)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:38 AM
Author: greedy bistre shrine hissy fit

some truth to that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974361)



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Date: October 26th, 2018 2:36 AM
Author: vigorous brass stock car cumskin

They don’t be on that bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#37097965)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:35 AM
Author: swashbuckling cowardly jap spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974354)



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Date: October 14th, 2019 9:36 AM
Author: hairraiser indecent address ladyboy

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4114584&forum_id=2#38974358)