/lit/ - Literature

Always loves this one because every other picture has him expressionless and empty—which is fitting of course, but it's cool to see him smile.

>>10744274
he still looks sad though

>>10744274
I'm not sure he's smiling.

>>10744274
He looks like the bad guy from The Iron Giant.

>>10744315
He is, you can see it in his eyes. Maybe he'd just read the newspaper about some nigger who got killed or smt.

>>10744266

>>10744370

rare

>>10744377

>>10744379
Rumor has it he was a ladies' man, and all he wanted to do in life was fuck.

>>10744370
kek, georgie wasted af

>>10744266
I've read a decent amount of Borges, and I must say, he doens't interest me at all.

The so called "metaphysical puzzles" he conjures are pretty simplistic and lame.

Fuck this dude.
Take his exotic Spanish blind ass back to wherever.

>>10744370
>whatcha thinken?
>imma write a book called The Book of Sand between My Toes

>>10744409
wild guess: u voted trump, right?

>>10744266
its kinda familiar looking

>>10744274
He kinda looks like Zuckerberg

>>10744418
kek
>>10744382
lol

>>10744421
I'm an anarchist.

>>10744409
Wow, you sound so smart. Won't you tell us more of your hot opinions and everything else you feel "you must say"?

>>10744421
it's your grandpa

>>10744266

>>10744266
was he blind already here?

>>10744495
what in the actual fuck? kek

>>10744507
Photo's from 1944, he was 45. He became completely blind by the age of 55. So, he wasn't blind here.

He looks kinda gay in this one. Like the sort of man Bret Easton Ellis would date.

>>10744524
>looks kinda gay
because he was. he died a virgin because he never came to terms with it. its obvious really.

>>10744633
if he came to terms with it he still would have died a virgin because gay 'sex' isn't real sex

>>10744640
you've clearly never had a prostate orgasm.

>>10744652
pleasure isn’t what makes it sex, the generative function is what makes it sex, condom sex and BC sex isn’t sex either

here comes the ladies' man

>>10744659
What an enchanter.

>>10744655
you've clearly never had a baby.

>>10744655
Ohh, I see now. So what's that other thing called then?

Love ezra in this one

Damn, Gass looked like THAT?

party king

>>10744669
would fuck

>>10744693
no man you can't say that regarding kids

>>10744695
a pity

>>10744695

>>10744409
>I've read a decent amount of Borges, and I must say, I lack the intelligence to understand him

Is that what you meant?

>>10744659
He'd look pretty good in a way if he wasn't balding.

>>10744686
Yes, you too will be ugly one day and disgust people who will be as old as you are now. Welcome to life.

>>10744718
>Rimbaud
More like Rim-beau, amirite?

>>10744718

>>10744739
What a handsome young man

>>10744718
Verlaine was spot on. I'd ravage that.

>>10744379
I don't have it saved but there's one out there for DFW dancing in what looks like a stock photo shoot.

>>10744718
Looks like shit in this photo, the other photo of him was much more better.
>>10744379
>>10744789
Didn't know DFW was handsome looking. I'm honestly surprised.

Burroughs meeting a mugwump.

Colorised picture of Chekhov

>>10744840

>>10744884
Reminded me of this.

>>10744659
Nabokov is one of these funny cases of a man who looked better at 60 than he did at 20
Gives hope to us all

Nietzsche facing forward always gets me

>>10744266

>>10744928
Don't post that juxtaposition every again.

>>10744928
he is unrecognizable from that angle...

>>10744379
audience pussy or monica lewinsky? or both

>>10744928
Is Friedrich "God is turtles" Green /ourguy/?

>>10744678
Masturbation.

>>10744683
How the fuck could Joyce be half-blind, alcoholic, poor, borderline schizo and always so well dressed and trimmed at the same time?

>>10744928
why's half his moustache white? kek

>>10744928
Now this is probably the first and last time Nietzsche, john Green and Ravachol will be posted together. What a weird group.

>>10744955
That's not Nietzsche, that's a pic of him juxtaposed to a pic of Ravachol juxtposed to a pic of John Green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravachol

>>10744928
kek young nietzsche looks like matt stone or smt

It looks like the mugshot of a gangster

>>10746256
I mean is there even any doubt that if he was born today he would be a /r9k/ incel crying about muh friendzone?

>>10746244
>That's not Nietzsche, that's a pic of him juxtaposed to a pic of Ravachol juxtposed to a pic of John Green

Proof? I'm not seeing any photo of Ravachol from which it would be derived

>>10744652
prostate orgasm is even more real than women "orgasm".

>>10746285
>>/lit/thread/4690816#p4694907

Ah nevermind I found it, posted here no less

>>10744266
>>10744421
>>10746269
dingdingding

>>10744266
i get heavy oscar wilde vibes. an elite gay dandy. what could have been if not by blindness and asperger.

>>10746293
I made a woodcut out of it but his forehead ended up too small on the matrix.

>>10744691
based
What were they talking about?

>>10744379
very rare indeed

>>10744687
You just KNOW he's had a quick fap before this pic

>>10746474
probably about being talentless hacks.

>>10744928
this is cursed.

Got better as he aged desu.

>>10746466
looks like me at 20 kek body-wise

>>10744266


Young Tolstoy

>>10744379
he dressed like shit

>>10744702
Would not fuck

>>10746221
he was a pro

>>10744928
Reminds me of pic related

Robert Walser after dying during a walk in the snow.

>>10746918
That's just some dumb roastie, this is Waller

>>10746918
Sorry wrong picture, I think that is a recreation.

>>10744702
>Thomas Mann wrote about an older man falling for a teen boy in 1911 Venice
>Umberto Saba wrote about a teen boy falling for an older man in 1898 Trieste
What does it mean

>>10746918
>>10746926
Do you have a folder of dead people in the snow?

Nietzsche at 16

>>10746557
You lanky bastard, did you at least write like him?

>>10744379

Damn, where the hell did you find this picture?

>>10744840

So cool.

>>10744702

>>10747416
the boylovers glare

>>10744678
Sodomy

>le plagiarism face

>>10746926
I still find it so haunting that he described the same scene in The Tanners.

rare kafk

>>10747616

u know i had to do it to em

>>10747616
>le smug twink

>>10747627
why is he so smug

>>10747320
LOOK AT THAT CRANIAL VOLUME!! FEAR THIS MAN, RESPECT THIS MAN, AVOID THIS MAN!

>>10747686
being blessed by God makes you happy inside, being cursed makes you depressed its really that simple

>>10744274
>that tortured grimace
>a smile
anon...

>>10744274
how contrived

>>10747320
he looks like a bully

I don't know who this guy is but he looks like a writer desu

Guess who?

>>10746580
holy FUCK

>>10744669
O rare! I caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Anon understood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one ‘not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him,’ for I felt that I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled myself.

>>10748196
You gotta be shitting me! You took that picture?

>>10746550
without the beard, he's unrecognizable

>>10748196
Wole Soyinka but white?

>>10748196
Pynchon reminds me of my grandma a little bit.

>>10744379

>>10748323
I wish!

>>10748402
Not bad. Keep trying.

>>10748465
it's pynch, I saw these photos on reddit kek

>>10744409
>I continue to read authors who don't interest me

>>10746309
you can have more money than god but there's not much you can do about looking like a schlub.

>>10746221
Joyce was simply just too base for this world famalamadalgharagdakaminnarinanontontoohooherdunenuthurnk

>>10744419
Borges would have 100% voted Trump desu

>>10746918
that is obviously a woman

>>10748504
I doubt it. He hated politics, and he had Mexican friends. A conservative from Argetina is not the same as a "conservative" from the US.

>>10747320
booblehead looking nigga

>>10747416
I would happily be spit-roasted by these two

>>10748196
>>10748465
Hey kid stop following me!

>>10744379
>google image search
>literally no results
how

>>10744659
He looks like he actually has a soul in this one.

>>10748636
you're looking for the name my band thread
>>>/mu/

>>10746588
It was on purpose. He was so self-critical, so insecure about the thin veneer of something individualistic or unique that he tried his hardest to wear clothing to make him fit in or look drab, and in going to the extreme, actually did the opposite. He was so intent on being like everybody else, that he actually did shit to make himself stand out, and he knew it, and didn't know how to be truly genuine.

>>10746497
lel
he does have a bit of a cheeky look

>>10746309
“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”

>>10748636
Kek whats the context here

>>10748196
>>10748465
Man, considering he's supposed to be a lanklet and that he's this small now and walking with a cane, I don't think we'll ever get a last one bois.

>>10748465
Do you think he was going to that little bookstore near the Staples to hide away Lot 49 copies?

>>10746918
FUCKING KEK
DAMN ROBERT WALSER LOOKS LIKE THAT?

>>10748822
Probably not. He did go to a bakery that day, though.

>>10748838
>I'll have 10 banana breads, one banana pudding, all the banana mousse you have, bananadonuts and two packs of these banana candies

>>10748838
in this little man's head is the key to [...]

>>10748838
I wanna throw a whiffle ball at him so he can hear a screaming come across the sky and fuck his shit up.

>>10748465
>>10748196
What's that haircut called?

>>10748863
The Pynchie.

>>10748717
>when ICE deports the hispanic family down the street

>>10748863
fancy grandma haircut

>>10748882
He hated niggers, not Mexicans. In fact he wrote a story about a Mexican miner.

>>10748717
Mexicans are fine people.
It's blacks who get annoying

>>10748892
>implying black people can't be hispanic

>>10748103
>>10748099
>>10744315
how autistic are you that you can't read a smile on another human's face

>>10748997
autists know each other

who is the best looking post modernist

>>10749094

>>10748196
David suzuki

>>10747320
what is the hand in the shirt supposed to mean

definitely masonic right?

>>10749145
Napoleonic fashion?

>>10749145
>this is where i keep my overman virtues
>don't test me kid

Rare photo of Franz Kafka in his Prague flat shortly before he was taken ill with tuberculosis. Story behind this says he was simultaneously trying to finish Amerika, the Trial and the Castle all at once, using watermelons to chanel the dead souls of authors before him for inspiration.

>>10749132
Dear God, he looks better bald

>>10747616
Cool, haven't seen this before

>>10744789

>>10751620
huh. Drown came out before DFW offed himself. I guess I knew that, but I always think of Diaz as someone who came after Wallace died.

>no mishima
most pics of him are great

>>10751735
Oscar Wao was out for over a year before Wallace killed himself. Drown was over a decade earlier.

>>10751837
Pssst...Nothing personnell, baka.

>>10746274
>he would be a /r9k/ incel crying about muh friendzone?
But he did anything but whine during his time. Or is that your point?

>>10749145
Before there was the dab, there was the napoleon hand