/lit/ - Literature

Deleuze. Destroyed dem y'all white nationz. Bun dem like Godzillah.

>>12367683
Lucian of Samosata

he was le ebin dtroll :--DDD

Machiavelli, because we're still discussing whether or not he was actually a troll

>>12368233
Good point. Haven’t most scholars determined that the prince was genuine, though?

>>12368519
>Haven’t most scholars determined that the prince was genuine, though?
So what, he was trolling in the Discourses?

>>12367685
Whence cometh this?

>>12367683
in addition, de Sade's whole corpus, and Ulysses

>>12367683
Henry the Eighth.

>>12368622
Who's the guy who made the book that explodes Christian concepts of nature? Like finding God in everything, some Spinoza god's ridiculous manifestation in the world. I read some years ago. It was done by a drunken lout who traveled a lot. He was none too famous.

>>12367683
>greatest troll
Rousseau

>>12367683
>Fucking Trump wants to stand in my sun eh?

>>12367683
Nabokov. Guy writes a book about kiddiefucking and then spends the rest of his life shitting on Eliot and Pound, calling them second-rate hacks. Literally /lit/.

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>>12368654
>a book
You need to read more of his books.

>>12368613
Timothy Dexter's book - A Pickle for the Knowing Ones. Read his biography before - at least the wikipedia article - the man was bizarre, I don't know how he managed to be successful.

>he started telling visitors that his wife had died (despite the fact that she was still alive) and that the woman who frequented the building was simply her ghost. In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving his death sufficiently.

>>12368657
I wasn't aware he wrote more than one (1) book about childfucking.

>>12368662
>To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind father Jorge washeton is in the senter king Addoms is at the Rite hand the present king at the Left hand father gorge with his hat on the other hats of the middel king with his sword king Addoms with his Cane in a grand poster Adtetoude turning his fass towards the first king as if they was on sum politicks king our present king he is stands hearing being younger and very deafe in short being one grat felosfer Looks well East & west and North & south deafe & very deafe the god of Natur has dun very much for our present king and all our former ones they are all good I want them to Live for Ever and I beleave thay will it is hard work to be A king

James Joyce is a HACK

>>12368663
I know that. That's why I pointed it out. You are welcome. I hope you go on to be a good person.

>>12368683
Thank you. I am a smarter now.

I think Daniel Defoe, for writing so many books under pseudonyms and passing them off as real life accounts.

>>12368725
There was a trade in people's diaries and accounts in the new world. It began with ships captains. The American's ate it up. It became a market that overflowed into Britain. Funny that no one seems to care about that particular history. The results have been interesting.

>>12368827
Tell me more, or where I can learn more.
I really enjoyed Journal of the Plague Year and the General History of Pirates.

>>12368835
Can't find anything online, but I'll take a look. The accounts are tame. You're meant only to feel for the man because of his position. And considering what was actually going on in the colonies, you realize that even the real narratives were constructed for society, for another world. It's difficult to address the realism in military and religious accounts without secondary sources.

pope

Can't believe no one has said Andrew Anglin yet. He's the Swift of our time.

>>12368184
is he any good? got one of his books lying around

>>12367683
i bet his dog was a little bad ass

>>12369404
Why does he have to be so overstated? Is he mocking DFW?

basically any decent anglo writer between 17th and 18th centuries

How the fuck is Socrates not the first and only answer.

Proust.

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>>12369944
Sargon of Akkad. He is the new Sokrates.

>>12369894

I doubt he's read much Wallace, his primary intent is converting younger teens to National Socialism.

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Swift

>>12367683
Goethe, though perhaps not intentionally

bump

Voltaire

Diogenes the first neet

>>12367683
jews

>>12373379
Certainly a scent of mirth in his demeanor and wordplay, but he was quite serious

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>>12373387
only morons like (you) take his books serious

>>12370338
It bothers me how liberals call Trump a coward for slipping the Vietnam war. That war was wrong, and anyone who dodged it was a hero. Generally, they'd even agree with this statement. They agree with Bernie Sanders copping out of the war, but when mister Trump does the same....