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Bought A Used Copy Of… refers to parodies of a viral Twitter thread in which a woman announced she'd purchased a used collection of Charles Bukowski poetry which featured dismissive and insulting margin notes written in ink by the previous owner. The woman praised the previous owner's notes, many of which were glib insults at the character Bukowski portrayed in his poetry. The thread inspired others to post pictures of books with overly glib or dismissive notes written in the margin in parody of the original thread.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2021, Twitter user @Leftovers_Movie[1] tweeted, "Bought a used Charles Bukowski book and the best part are the notes in the margins from a woman who clearly was having none of this shit." The first tweet in the thread gained over 10,000 retweets, 3,800 quote-tweets, and 55,000 likes (shown below).


Melissa Turkington @Leftovers_Movie Bought a used Charles Bukowski book and the best part are the notes in the margins from a woman who clearly was having none of this s---. what the hell s un you? listen, I said, I've got to leave. you stay here. I'll be right bac I'm going, she said. I love you crazy, you're doomed. she got her purse and slamm it's probably some deeply-ro that makes me vulnerable, I go to therapy then I left my place and got I drove north up Western v there were w----- walking both sides of the street and more vicious than any of t

There were 8 total examples of the margin notes left in the used book in the thread (examples shown below).


I have s--- stains in my underwear too wipe your ass yoU itle gremin ту ear them outside: pes he always type this e?" 99 I go back to the parking lot and wait. she comes out. you get the pills?" I ask. "yes," she says. "then it's been a successful day." "did 66 I think of the dancer walking across my kitchen. I can't visualize it. I am going to die alone just the way I live. probabiy for the best "take me to my place," she says, "I've got to get ready for night school." 99 99 "sure," I say and drive her on in. re beers then get up to leave. ne other man in the bar. self in the mirror. nkey this man was fu cking nuts rood, ious er tongue out at me r man. ruly hard, I think. ver. sks. 99 ay wife has cancer.

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The thread inspired parodies in which people posted joke notes in margins from famous books, with the notes intentionally giving shallow or glib responses to the writing. For example, user @MuscleSkoals[2] posted such a parody with 1984, including a Wow, this is just like 1984 joke, gaining over 11,000 retweets and 130,000 likes (shown below, left). On July 25th, user @Zuza_Real[3] posted a parody featuring Watchmen, gaining over 660 retweets and 7,800 likes (shown below, right)


muscle skoals @MuscleSkoals ... bought a used copy of 1984 and i've never seen such brilliant and incisive margin notes again, and instead the three slogans of uit i wy bold capitals: Signet Classic WAR IS PEACE ORWELLIA FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it GEORGE ORWELL 1984 on evervone's evebelle The pencil felt thick and awkward in his fingers. He began to write down the thoughts that came into his head. He wrote first in large clumsy capitals: Wow! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. this is just 1i ke Then almost without a pause he wrote beneath it: 1984 But then there came a sort of check. His mind, as though shying away from something, seemed unable to concentrate. He knew that he knew what came next. but for the moment. TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE. 6:35 PM · Jul 24, 2021 · Twitter Web App atrophy wife @zuza_real ... bought a used copy of Watchmen from a lady who clearly wasn't having none of this s---! ALAN MOORE writer DAVE GIBBONS illustrator/letterer GO TO-THERAPYI!I! JOHN HIGGINS colorist Watchmen created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Hao of all more like "white men". ook Say what you want about George W. Bush and his tactics buk tha Trag war was justified. People who claim the invasi was ah act of inherent and sustained evil are wrong America has the right to stop u ahroad and helo out tesser countries n order to 8:00 AM · Jul 25, 2021 · Twitter for Android WATCHMEN

Other jokes include a tweet by @a_charcuterie14[4] which did the joke with The Bell Jar, gaining over 220 likes (shown below, left). User @willfromonline[5] posted an example showing jokes written in the margin of Dune (shown below, right).


Bought a used copy of The Bell Jar and saw this wonderful insight! ver go uCAV Ut we ve tried them, to0" lingered a minute, as if she could sniff out some clue in the he said, "Well, we'll do what we can," and left. he light and tried to drop back to sleep, but Joan's face floated Land smiling, like the face of the Cheshire cat. I even thought rustling and hushing through the dark, but then I realized it wind in the asylum trees.... oke me in the frost-gray dawn. ened the door myself. Doctor Quinn. She stood at attention, like a frail drill ser- hes seemed curiously smudged. should know," Doctor Quinn said. "Joan has been found." use of the passive slowed my blood. y the frozen ponds. .. ." uth, but no words came out. erlies found her," Doctor Quinn continued, "just now, tor Quinn. "I'm afraid she's hanged herself." Śweette ono you need nerh thempy! wilf ... @willfromonline Bought a used copy of DUNE and the best part are the notes in the margin and dimmer. The solution appeared obviou know this is the only way to be sure c is I will drown the maker. We will see now wh line. He spoke in a dry voice: "I quii Kwisatz Haderach who can survive the test th end Mothers have survived. So. uh. THAT just we do." "We won't fail," she said. "Guilt starts as a feeling of failure 011 1 ey'll call me." youth. I could kill him, Fenrir And he felt the tears coursing do sed his eyes, thinking: Now, my fa for a truth. 8ye teli Something in his ow brmal world. 11:01 AM · Jul 25, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

Various Examples


The only good thing I can think about the first day of school is that some of the teachers are hew and so you can slide a little. GREG HEFFLEY WOULD YOU PLEASE COME TO THE BOARD AND DO THIS PROBLEM? so true i think NO SPEECH ENGLISH. Anyway the teacher is almost done with the seating chart and I think I wrote enough in this book to keep Mom off Mow do i rotate fext in ms paint back for today. my favours'. When the vakil of the soldiers returned he was given a horse and a robe of honour while amongst the distributed a large sum of money, thus restoring his relationship with God as well as with the common man.4 For, Abbas seems to imply, the sultanate of Sher Shah was built on those two relation- ships, and any nobleman had better acknowledge the fact. Compared to Lodi times, therefore, the distribution of the financial means of the realm was organised on new principles. To W--!!! sum up, Sher Khan's attempts emphasised subordination and employment by the centre, not horizontal alliances with aristocratic leaders, pastoral tribes and warlords. Sher Khan penetrated the military labour market along a vertical axis with, amongst others, agrarian-based troopers or, as we might perhaps call them, an emerging gentry in his home counties in Bihar and in the qasbas situated on the East-West river and land routes that formed the main frame of his realm. This did not, of course, mean he tried to monopolise recruitment – that, in India, is impossible, as we have poor the governor shown but it did mean centralisation to the extent that it was feasible. Now what was feasible? Sher Khan's approach presup- poses the command of independent means. We need to know, first, what these were and how they were used. Secondly, it is necessary to inquire whether Indian conditions allowed a programme of centralised recruitment and distribution to become a permanent feature of politics and state formation. I am defntely, burmng this botk today. What an actual freate Treasure It is difficult to understand Sher Shah's reign unless we can find an answer to the question of the origin of the resources with which he financed the personal fidelity of his soldiers who alone could keep the Afghan aristocracy in check. For the period after 1540, when he kait2.0 ... @cannibalshymn Bought a used copy of the Holy Bible and I'm in love with the woman who had it before me he hath, and he thy face.4Y said unto Sā'tan, e hath is in thy himself put not So Sā'tan went 6AY 1 Agair Holy Bible tempt boils. evil a come Therefore is light given to hilen they can find the s in misery, and life unto ti in soul;Ge+thero?e Y! Vhich long for death, but light given to a man h not; and dig for it mos hid, and whom God for hid treasures; hich rejoice exceedingly, ar in? ELAMP sighing cometh before ad. when they can find ere noured 2:16 AM · Jul 25, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone mary shelley's ozymegdias @ozymegdias ... I bought a used copy of Notre Dame de Paris and the best part are the notes from a woman who wasn't taking ANY of his s--- lol giow, uiere was one WIlICII seemeu even moIe absorbedu than all the others in contemplating the dancer. It was a man's face, austere, calm, sombre. This man, whose clothes were concealed by the crowd around him, did not look more than 35 years old; yet he was bald; at his temples he had scarcely more than a few scanty tufts of hair already grey; his broad, high forehead was beginning to be furrowed with wrinkles; but in his deep-set eyes shone an extra- ordinary youthfulness, ardent vitality, intense passion. He never took his eyes off the gypsy girl, and while the wild 16-7? year-old danced and leaped about to the delight private reverie seemed to become more and more sombre. From time to time a smile and a sigh met on his lips, but the II CLAUDE FROLLO TRUST FUND BABY CLAUDE FROLLO was indeed not one of the common herd. all, his He belonged to one of those families of middle rank which, in the impertinent language of the last century, were called indifferently upper bourgeoisie or minor no- smile revealed more pain than the sigh. Out of breath, the girl stopped at last, and the people ap- plauded her warmly. 'Djali,' said the girl. L:1:. TLin famil.. hadinbanind fua ha huntha. Daalat NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS (OXFORD WORLD'S CLAS. Then Gringoire saw a pretty little white she-goat come up, nimble, lively, glossy, with gilded horns, gilded hooves, a gilded collar; he had not noticed it before, for it had re- mained crouching up till then on a corner of the carpet, watching its mistress dance. 'Djali,' said the dancer, 'now it's your turn.' And as she sat down, she gracefully held out her tam- bourine to the goat. forward, that chest always heaving with sighs? What se- cret thoughts brought such a bitter smile to his lips at the same moment as his frowning brows came closer together like two bulls about to fight? Why were his remaining hairs already grey? What was that inner fire which sometimes flashed in his eyes, so much so that they looked like holes pierced in a furnace wall? These symptoms of some violent moral preoccupation had reached a particularly high degee of intensity by the 4 hrs 59 mins left in chapter 16% time of our story. More than once a chorister, finding him 12:39 PM · Jul 25, 2021 from Manhattan, NY · Twitter for iPad 11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the “Lord hath ' delive. ed him into thy hands. Yea, and I also know that he had sougat o t k away inine own life; yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandm nts f the Lord; and he also h1taken away our p pe ty, P 12 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me again: Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands; 13 Behold the Lord “slayeth the bwicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in dunbelief. "It's an errand to you bro came from the village. She Ugh, Adam released Dinah's h this book was written. by a girl and cas'alty as can be, and s "T'll put my bonnet on an “Yes, I do want somethin "Yes, I'll have a cup, plea "Why, Adam, lad, are yo- "I came on an errand for "Well, we'll spare her for "Husband!" said Marty, u "Spare her?" said Mrs. P- child naughty, when she'd b Tommy, with true brothen

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[1] Twitter – Leftovers_Movie

[2] Twitter – MuscleSkoals

[3] Twitter – zuza_real

[4] Twitter – @a_charcuterie14

[5] Twitter – @willfromonline

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