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Was Shakespeare the best writer in human history?
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:39 PM Author: Geriatric iridescent theatre death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384404) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:41 PM Author: azure trip church building Not even close, son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384411) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:30 AM Author: Electric Brunch “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385965) |
Date: October 24th, 2022 8:40 PM Author: Yellow Painfully Honest Stage Alpha (white male clinging vicariously to the accomplishments of the past) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384408) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:37 AM Author: aqua office people who are hurt When your race has writers that can start to compare to some guy from about 400 years ago you can let us know (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385615) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: Ocher dopamine White male claiming all folks with pale skin as his fellow bretheren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385985) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:48 AM Author: aqua office people who are hurt No there are some other races that have high tier writers (Asians, Jews, and Arabs), but ironically they also have to dig in to the past to find them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385994) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:44 AM Author: Costumed drunken marketing idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385982) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:42 PM Author: heady ultramarine market Yes. And 2nd place is distant. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384416) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:47 PM Author: Geriatric iridescent theatre death wish Who is second place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384430) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:49 PM Author: heady ultramarine market Sophocles? Milton? Whoever wrote the Gospel of Mark? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384436) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:51 PM Author: fantasy-prone locus evan39 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384443) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:34 AM Author: razzle faggotry indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385671) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:22 AM Author: arousing hot international law enforcement agency state EPAH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385596) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:50 PM Author: Yellow Painfully Honest Stage Alpha Homer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384438) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:57 PM Author: Titillating Green Coldplay Fan Locale Easily tops for Western lit, though one wonders what we'd think if, say, all of the plays of Sophocles survived. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384473) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 8:59 PM Author: azure trip church building Not even close, son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384483) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:00 PM Author: navy ticket booth why did he include his mattress in his will but not mention anything about his writings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384486) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:00 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Fragrant Set Nibblets He's up there. Hard to say though between other titans (vergil, dante, milton, etc.) who is the ABSOLUTE best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384489) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:02 PM Author: Titillating Green Coldplay Fan Locale Charles Murray crunched the numbers and it is Shakespeare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384492) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:42 AM Author: ivory lodge clown what numbers did he crunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385708) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:32 AM Author: Titillating Green Coldplay Fan Locale See his book Human Accomplishment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385966) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:03 PM Author: azure trip church building You guys are such pretentious posers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384499) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:04 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Fragrant Set Nibblets ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384504) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:06 PM Author: azure trip church building The 20th centuries writers wrote 10000x more in depth and profoundly than any of Shakespeare, Milton, Dante. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384509) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:07 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Fragrant Set Nibblets Eliot was pretty damn good. Telling that he frequently pays homage to vergil and dante, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384515) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:17 PM Author: Swashbuckling dark jewess You raise an incredibly important point. Reading good writing is essential to good writing. So the bar is progressively raised for those who come after. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384552) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: azure trip church building Everyone pays homage to the OGs. But you can't tell me their shit is as detailed or complex as cunts like Pynchon and Faulkner. It's more of a nostalgia than anything else.
It's like saying Ellington and Louis Armstrong are better than cunts on bebop. |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Fragrant Set Nibblets There are more things in literature, Whokebeo, Than are dreamt of in your novels (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384653) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: azure trip church building Who are your favourite essayists? Is Aldous one of the GOATs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384656) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Fragrant Set Nibblets in terms of style? nietzsche. you're probably looking for an answer like DFW, whose essays are actually enjoyed (unlike his novel). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384674) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: azure trip church building I think Aldous' essays are fucking 180 man. Do you like James Baldwin and shit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384681) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:33 PM Author: Lake Twisted Hospital Gaming Laptop Theodore Dalrymple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384858) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:12 PM Author: azure trip church building What should I read of his? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385051) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 12:24 AM Author: Lake Twisted Hospital Gaming Laptop This one’s pretty good https://www.city-journal.org/html/frivolity-evil-12835.html |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:44 AM Author: azure trip church building TY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385686) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Yellow Painfully Honest Stage Alpha Like who? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384641) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: azure trip church building You can't tell me Shakespeare's shit is anywhere as complex or intricate as Faulkner's works. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384652) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:03 PM Author: judgmental cerise idea he suggested pisswyrm My guess is Jesus was a pretty good writer. I mean, he’s God. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384498) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:39 AM Author: Self-absorbed gas station telephone This thread is about historical figures only (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385706) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 4:43 AM Author: ivory lodge clown Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure,[note 1][note 2][4][5][6][7] although interpretations of a number of the events mentioned in the gospels (most notably his miracles and resurrection) vary and are a subject of debate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385709) |
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Date: October 26th, 2022 3:41 AM Author: Self-absorbed gas station telephone Most of the quotations provided in those citations claiming that "no serious scholar doubts that Jesus existed" are from many years (or decades) ago and are now clearly obsolete, given that more than two dozen historians and biblical scholars have publicly commented on the matter in recent years to state either that they believe Jesus never existed, or that they personally believe he did exist but nevertheless grant that the position that he didn't exist is a respectable theory that deserves to be seriously debated by scholars and not dismissed as some implausible crackpot theory:
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/21420 |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:07 PM Author: Dashing high-end boiling water halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384517) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:25 PM Author: adventurous flesh philosopher-king pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385118) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:08 PM Author: twinkling friendly grandma organic girlfriend Him, Hitler, Evelyn Waugh, then Glenn Greenwald is the order (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384522) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:41 AM Author: aqua office people who are hurt Hitler's fantastic at diagnosing problems, but his writing skills aren't top-tier.
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:14 PM Author: excitant dysfunction volcanic crater he bought and borrowed from everyone... really not even his own work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384539) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:14 PM Author: Blue rigpig Klauss Schwab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384541) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: azure trip church building He said greatest writer not greatest speaker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384650) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: provocative boistinker probably some GORGEOUS japanese writer that has never been translated for white trash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384608) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Blue rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384643) |
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Date: October 26th, 2022 4:00 AM Author: burgundy boltzmann white trash is not the preferred nomenclature. birdshit, please (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45390457) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: marvelous aquamarine sanctuary He understood the minds of human beings best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384634) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:37 PM Author: Startling crystalline juggernaut Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384662) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:30 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy den Rule of three.
And count the accents of that line. |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:50 PM Author: Stimulating center goal in life I think Evan39 actually has a wider range and better technical skill but loses points for being full blown homo while Shakespeare was on the DL with his urges (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384704) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 9:54 PM Author: azure trip church building (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384716) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:27 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy den Yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384839) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 10:36 PM Author: boyish scarlet laser beams He's no Shelby Foote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45384872) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:20 PM Author: adventurous flesh philosopher-king pocket flask honestly, uncle ted is a better writer despite being a significantly less skilled wordsmith.
i tend to weight powerful ideas being clearly expressed above verbal artistry |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:20 PM Author: self-centered roast beef *fart* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385096) |
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Date: October 24th, 2022 11:25 PM Author: adventurous flesh philosopher-king pocket flask (shitlib) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385126) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:30 AM Author: racy cordovan piazza This thread is a good reminder of (or intro for newer poasters to) what a fucking retard whokebe is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385602) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: gay demanding new version this is basically whok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfG2PkB4NBE |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:35 AM Author: milky crusty forum tank He's shit and fraud and lies. Many famous Indian writers way better
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Date: October 25th, 2022 2:42 AM Author: aqua office people who are hurt Like who? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385621) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:53 AM Author: doobsian space Go to any slightly off-brand porntube site and scroll down to the comments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386013) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 3:34 AM Author: excitant dysfunction volcanic crater this new theory proposes that some guy named Thomas North wrote most of it... https://lithub.com/whats-in-a-name-tracing-an-obsession-with-the-shakespeare-authorship-question/ |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:38 AM Author: Geriatric iridescent theatre death wish Bought Julius Caesar and Henry IV (pt 1 and 2) and Henry V Folger Editions off of Amazon. Any other recs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385972) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:46 AM Author: Costumed drunken marketing idea many lawyers are paid $800 an hour or more for the quality of their writing. Was Shakespeare ever paid $800 an hour to write? case closed. |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:48 AM Author: aqua office people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45385996) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 8:59 AM Author: at-the-ready soul-stirring meetinghouse He never got his picture on a bubble gum card. Have you ever seen his picture on a bubble gum card? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on a bubble gum card (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386034) |
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Date: October 25th, 2022 9:03 AM Author: at-the-ready soul-stirring meetinghouse With some qualifiers for translation and transcription for ancient writers; yes. And it's really a tier of his own with a few others fighting for a distant second. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#45386045) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:09 PM Author: navy ticket booth What exactly makes it THAT good that everyone else is so far behind? People make this claim all the time but why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649483) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: Vivacious fiercely-loyal property personal credit line no but he was entertaining and creative (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649487) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: navy ticket booth Who is better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649489) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:12 PM Author: Vivacious fiercely-loyal property personal credit line Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649491) |
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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:13 PM Author: navy ticket booth Ok I'll read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5219122&forum_id=2#47649492) |