/lit/ - Literature

Literature takes pain.

Also, pretty people are busy with sex.

Because they aren't.
Other than Pynchon, who would you say is ugly?

Like which ones?

>>1590189
>>1590186
Borges, Bukowski and Anthony Burgess.

if i was beautiful people would have given me more allowances

i guess it's rare for a writer as talented as pynchon to be as attractive as he is ugly, but pynchon is really exceptionally ass fucking fugly

>>1590198
and HP Lovecraft with his giant chin!

>>1590198
Have you seen any earlier pic from any of them, when they where young?

>>1590199
That's mainly because of his teeth though. I think he might look average apart from that.

>>1590203
i'm both beautiful and gay

get allowances and be a great writer

oh and op

look at pic

point disproven

>>1590186

DFW, Sartre, Kafka, Salinger, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Tolkien, Capote, Orwell, Nietzsche to name only some of the most famous.

>>1590213
That is a good point. I suppose a lot of authors are ugly because they're tremendously old.

>>1590218
>Salinger
>Hemingway
>Nietzsche
>Orwell

>>1590218
>>1590224
none of them are ugly

get better taste in men

>>1590218

Capote didn't look bad.

And Kafka would look good if he wasn't being devoured by tuberculosis.

>>1590215
He looks like a fucking boar.

>>1590218
sartre's fucked-up google eyes and solzhenitsyn's fantasy-novelist beard aside most of these are just regular-looking guys. kafka was pretty handsome!

>>1590218
Most of those guys aren't ugly though..

>>1590224

>Salinger

He looks like a creep.

>Hemingway

Fucking bear.

>Nietzsche

see pic

>Orwell

he looked like he was permanently sucking a lemon

>>1590215
>beautiful
>homosexual
pick one.

ahem

i should probably try and do something about my hair this week. short is easy but it makes me look rough and not sensitive. so im conflicted between that and looking like aspergers.

Hello.

>>1590244
>implying Nietzsche isn't sexy as fuck

>>1590246
>gay
>not fashionably androgynous
pick one

>>1590263
Huxley took one sexy photo in his entire life and the rest of the time he looked like an underfed frog-man

>>1590238
he has an idle look

why are you arguing with a faggot over which men are hot and which are not?

>>1590279
But holy damn, it is one sexy photo.

>>1590286
That I'll give you. Smoldering tbh

>>1590285
once i heard on here that gays have worse taste than even most women. from what've heard from you excluding this thread it might even be true.

Couldn't resist.

>>1590218
If your sister brought David Foster Wallace home for Thanksgiving you'd start shopping for little Phantom of the Opera masks for your future nieces and nephews, really? He just looks like some dude at Lollapalooza '92

>>1590301
>women's taste in men
>orange monkeys

>my taste in men
>400 pound fucking lumberjacks
no

Sylvia Plath was fucking hot.

*-*

Look at this sexy toad

>>1590311
>implying dfw isnt hunky as fuck

>>1590314
She was pretty indeed.

Yeats is pretty handsome.

>>1590320
yeah if you shift the camera to landscape


what the fuck

>>1590314
nope.jpg

>>1590317
yes

>>1590318
fucking frogs.

>>1590313
orange monkeys is a usa thing. the rest of europe despises italians. your taste is cheesy as fuck. basically european wimmenz taste.

>>1590332
then european women have okay taste men

why are you arguing with a homo that he has bad taste in men

>>1590335
feel free to point out where i've argued with you anywhere ITT.

fags are degenerate drama-addicts.

>>1590244
Salinger looked pretty suave if you ask me, you wont find much better than him...a part from Stephen King of course, theres a guy who knows how to take a photo.

>pynchon
>great writer

ok guys this joke is getting pretty old

No woman who reads above a sixth-grade level is actually into orange monkeys. Also I'm pretty sure The Situation is actually the homosexualists' burden to bear

>>1590345
King looks like a bony tomcat who tricked a witch into giving him human form

We're not very good judges of mass attractive appeal.

I riddled our question to /soc/, the board as finally proved useful.

>>>>>>/soc/1979574

>>1590395
see this is "adorkable"

michael cera of contemp literary fiction up in this bitch

>>1590397
i cringed at the prominent female replier in that thread. i really hate it when you can tell a women is posting because they sound like a woman. forcing themselves to swear and shit, hard to describe except its phoney.

i think only ugly cat ladies do it though.

Tao Lin is a handsome motherfucker.

I think Ursula Le Guin was pretty when younger. Unfortunately, I think she was old when she hit 20 or something because I have no pictures of her before she was 45.

>>1590414
He really is! The "great author" part is the only roadblock.

<<---- This woman wrote a 1000 page epic and she's still damn sexy.

>>1590424

I've never heard of her and I probably never will again.

>>1590424
i find it kind-of sexy when women write big dickswinging thousand-page epic books

i like how you can tell she's a sf/f author just by looking at her. does she moonlight doing stand-in work for helena bonham carter?

I hate when you read someone's autobiography and they state in the text that they're really handsome, then you see their photo on the back cover and they're actually very homely. It happened in:

Anthony Swofford - Jarhead
Iceberg Slim - Pimp
Emmett Grogan - Ringolevio

Although I'm not into Harry Potter, I would skewer JK Rowling. I know she's a little old, but that's my fetish.

>implying you wouldn't

>prepare your anus

Thread destroyer here. Y'all niggas so jelly.

>>1590439
Ahaha. Anthony Swofford looks like every watery-eyed fat guy who ever went to a Wilco concert.

>no millay
/lit/ has horrible taste in women

>>1590459
i like her

>>1590428
That's because it's LGBT fic and most people are too conservative to read it. Personally, I think her work is tragically under-rated. It could help people be more open about the way they see gender if they gave it a chance. :/

>>1590447
I actually masturbated on this very picture when I was a wee girl.

>>1590244
>He looks like a creep.
Nope.
>Fucking bear.
What?
>see pic
So you purposefully chose the most unflattering picture of him?
>he looked like he was permanently sucking a lemon
What the fuck does that mean?

ITT: Nerds with no redeeming features aside from literacy who comfort themselves by preserving the myth that intelligent people are unattractive.

>>1590479

Oh well intelligent people are not nound to be ugly. Its just if a guy is really attractiv most girls wont care about if he is intelligent or not and also the guy wouldnt have to relie on character or intelligence or something like that to score.

People who are less attracitve when it comes to physicall apperance but are intelligent and creative on the other hand are proud about that or lets just say they relie on that stuff.

>>1590444
>>1590447

Beckett has a been-through-the-fires-of-Hell-twice look to him that some women find attractive. Camus was above average in looks, but he comes across as full of savoir-faire and Gallic charm.

>>1590441
heres husbando, you have a chance?

>>1590511
dude has the hair of a future juggalo seventh-grader

accio pomade

>>1590513
she wants stability.

Exceptions:

Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
David Foster Wallace
Jonathan Franzen
Victor Hugo
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Virginia Woolf
Thomas Hardy
W. Somerset Maugham
Mark Twain
W. B. Yeats
Aldous Huxley
Sylvia Plath
Albert Camus
Hermann Hesse
Thomas Mann
J. G. Ballard
Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Anthony Burgess
J. M. Coetzee
Orson Scott Card
Alexandre Dumas
Jonathan Safran Foer
Gustave Flaubert
Honoré de Balzac
Nikolai Gogol
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mikhail Lermontov
Thomas Harris
Ezra Pound
O. Henry
John Green
Maureen Johnson
Henry James
Malcolm Lowry
Hugh Laurie
Stephen Fry
Salman Rushdie
Cormac McCarthy
Haruki Murakami
Vladimir Nabokov
Arthur Miller
Edgar Allan Poe
Carl Sagan
Elif Shafak
William Shakespeare
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
H. P. Lovecraft
Ivan Turgenev
John Updike
Voltaire
Émile Zola
Leo Tolstoy

>>1590529
What in the

Also, just because Rushdie ensnared Padma Lakshmi, that doesn't mean he's actually good-looking

>>1590511

Looks like the guy from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

>>1590544
He looks like an evil gnome.

>>1590218
False.
I would let dostoevsky and sartre tag team me any day.

>>1590607
I was nine years old in 1989 when he was in the news a lot because of the fatwa over The Satanic Verses and his face used to really scare me.

>>1590441
Damn, I agree with you, JK Rowling is hot. I don't even have a fetish for older women, but I have an appreciation for women who have aged well.

>>1590665
WHITE WOMEN DON'T AGE WELL, IT IS A FACT.

>>1590215

GTFO, fag.

>>1590706
sagan would never say such a thing

>>1590681

thats why you just fuck the japanese ones, right?

Why are most great authors, scientists and philosophers?

>>1590755
like michael crichton and ayn rand