/lit/ - Literature

>>16183106

>>16183220
how would /lit/ score in a dick comparison contest with Borges? I'd probably lose

>>16183263

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>>16183234
I could tell him that my dick is bigger and that he should trust my word but he would probably want to touch it to confirm it haha

>>16183106
bros how do I get enough money to buy a shack in the Alps?

>>16183106
all the pictures I've seen of Heidegger look like out of a Tarkovsky movie

just chilling

>>16183296
be an international banking executive

No phones, just people living in the moment.

>>16183326
based Guenon poster

>>16184022
this guy always looks like a pre 1950 vampire

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>>16183106

>>16183106
Real picture by the way dude actually had a hitler stache

looking cute in my new haaaat!! uwU
Don't you notice something??? Yaaaasss!!!! of course you noticed! hehejeeh cute hat! cute hat! CUTE HAT YEEAS HUUUG TIMEEEEE OWO

>>16184528
Damn, someone on lit knows Brodsky!

imagine being ignored by the /lit/ community because another author from your country has the same name

>>16183106

>tfw no wife who supports me as my mental health declines while I write books that won't be fully appreciated until after my death

>>16184029
the chaddest author

>>16184887
>Why yes I’ve completely obliterated George Bernard Shaw’s legacy in the Irish theater with ONE (1) play, how could you tell?

>>16183106
tfw i shot a ton of dope ...and my wife in the head.

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>>16185727
based duckduckgo user

>>16183234
Pre-coomer flaccid was only an inch so I'd have lost then.

Post coomer flaccid is about 5 or 6 inches.

I've lost the ability to contract. Even cold showers won't shrivel it.

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>>16186169
Ciddy

>>16186410
violà

>>16186449
Did anyone do photography better than Jackie?
3/3

>>16183106
I miss Céline like you wouldn't believe

>>16186552

always loved this one

I heard you were using adverbs?

>>16186617
careful with that gun, ernest

>>16183106
my boy smoking

>>16183953
Looking distinctly chadly there.

>>16186617
hem used adverbs all the time, in fact, probably his most famous passage uses "endlessly"

>>16186514
Blessed and based.

>>16183953
>riverrun, here's wonderwall

>>16183220
Borges meón lol

>>16188105
Another one for (you)

>>16185727
I'd have posted the picture where he's lying with two women in bed everyone of them naked

>>16188116
How does he reach the third row of that thing on the right? Does he stand on his bed?

Why is Zizek so fucking based? I wish he was my father.

Finally a thread I where I can post this image

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>>16188182
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>16183106

can it get more comfy than Perec with his cat?

>>16183414
nice, the picture on the tricycle is also excellent

>>16188904
Maybe Char and his kitten

>>16184876
damn I dislike that he got fat

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>>16185663
Say what you want about his writing, Twain was a fucking chad. Just look at that glorious bastard.

>>16183106
very good thread idea

>>16184528
fucking based jew

>>16186570
Moar celine

>>16188157
He asks mommy to reach it for him

>>16184528
kyke simp faggot

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>>16189642
do you think they had wild orgies together? is there a wattpad for this?

>>16189642
Isherwood and Auden, yes. Auden and Spender, no. Isherwood and Spender, no. But they did go cruising together, so perhaps adjacent sex in the same room... but not a free-for-all-style orgy. Spender claims he was not attractive amongst his friends (which is insane considering Auden must have been.)

Spender hasn't remained as in repute as a writer as the others but he is a comfy poet---unsentimental, often amusing. Leopardi-esque but with a sense of humor. I think /lit/ would like him.

Just chilling with bros, selling guns to niggers because you've finished changing the face of French poetry forever

>>16186017
Faulkner?

What is it between writers and cats?

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>>16190594

>>16190428
toxoplasmosis

>>16183272
Burroughs has the guiltiest "I got away with it" look ever

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>>16190594
french philosophy confirmed cat philosophy

>>16190874
Does Badiou consider the hidden power relations behind cat ownership? Or, for that matter, fine merino wool pullover or and updating one's cabinets? At least Derrida didn't live in a remodeled residence and wrote several books on the implicit relationships between humans and animals...

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>>16188883

>god exists, I'm smart, wah I'm so sad I was born in the commie/coca-cola century, fuck peasants waaahhh

>>16189715
Lol these nerds, love it, N and his sis playing, that faggot too anxious to do as well.

>>16185022
i miss him so much. :(
who will protect us from irony?

Did Heidegger really fuck Arendt?

>>16185963
ugly old toad

>>16186650
kek

>>16186631
he looks like a school shooter

>>16189290
lmao

What interests us is what we don’t see: the unapparent, the work that goes into a thing before it is broken. Consider William Gaddis crouched into the shape of a penguin, likely drunk in the late gray afternoon, a draft of Carpenter’s Gothic on his desk at home. Did he speak of Muriel as he ate, who in some other Village bar contemplated the first years of a love she’d come to think of as “a mere decade alcoholic haze?” What letters did he carry in his jacket, & from whom? & what of Pynchon’s absence, the unseen man who’d been accused of not existing? “Somewhere between coasts,” he’d written, if indeed it’d been his hand that signed the note. At dinner someone must’ve glanced across their meal at Gaddis & wondered, ‘Could he’ve pulled it off?’ In the photograph, Pilar & Shelly lean easily against the wall as their husbands shift weight from one heel to the other, positioning themselves to appear comfortable in the face of eternity. Consider them: the Gasses, Hawks & Coovers, Barthelmes & Abishes, Gaddis & Vonnegut, standing naked & old in front of their closets, selecting this white shirt, those gray slacks, the long black skirt draped like a shadow among its mates; how arbitrary is history. Just months before, Steven Moore suggested that Pynchon was “a pseudonym for Gaddis!” He’d called it a rumor, but still he’d said it. & then in April, Wanda Tinasky’d claimed, though she herself had been a prank, “the novels of William Gaddis & Thomas Pynchon were written by the same person.” Years later the typewriter on which the Tinasky letters were written would be discovered in the barn of a failed writer who’d killed his wife & then himself, but for now these letters added another layer to the myth of Pynchon’s living ghost. How many times had even Barthelme seen his friend in the flesh, or was this famous dinner organized to draw out the game, the man, & catch him in a snapshot for the world? Maybe Barthelme, too, had begun to pull the string—To what extent can any of us know our friends? Beside Vonnegut, who stands behind the rest as though on a horse, a point of light exerts itself from between a tuft of leaves. It is 1983 & Postmodernism has been supplanted by Minimalism. How appropriate then, that this single point of light be representative of the missing man, the shadow, the private eye.

>>16192381
He really destructed her existentiality

>>16192430
I only recognise Gaddis, Barth, Vonnegut and Barthelme

Who are the women?

>>16192430

Who is this absolute mad lad and his buddies?

>>16192454
Barthelme, Abish, Hawkes, Coover, Gass as well. The women are the wives.

>Come join my hermeneutic circle, anon

>>16183106
Umberto Eco as a gigachad

>>16193025
damn son

def lived the literary lifestyle to its fullest

>>16192466
>The women are the wives.
oh thank god
for a moment i thought they were female '''''authors'''''

>>16193357
Lurk more newfag

>>16193025
il chadino

>>16193025
Damn, that's very close to what I used to picture Casaboun in his earlier days in college.

>>16191715
That isn't his sister.That is a love triangle.

>>16185256
He even looks like an übermench

"The modern man, you say?
So it seems, so it seems..."

>>16194220
Paul never wrote anything, he dictated to his secretary.

>>16194354
I love the mixture of western clothing and Japanese sandals and robes. Very interesting period.

>>16185310
I think I'm gonna give him a try
Should I just read his most popular stuff or is there anything better to start with?

László Krasznahorkai looking badass

>>16195380
I started with coin locker babies. Great book, but I think you could start anywhere you'd like

>>16195524
anything*

>>16195380
He's certainly not as good a page turner like the other Murakami but at least he tries to shock or be less predictable. Some would call it shock shlock (Coin Locker Babies opens with a woman sucking on a baby's penis). Avoid Almost Transparent Blue. Whatever the metaphor's supposed to hold just doesn't translate.

>>16185022
>Jump faggot, you won't

>>16186107
wholesome

>>16196826

all of these guys look like they stunk of piss and mould

>>16194988
was Herr Hermann Hesse ever young?

>>16194122
i'm not a new fag you are a new fag
your father is an old one

>>16183273
not comfy

>>16188904
Yes, Mark Twain with his cat

>>16196867
>smoking around children
Wtf Camel

>>16186514
BASED POSTER BLESSED THIS POST.

>>16197309
You hadn't seen that picture nor that pasta, don't even bother pretending

>>16192430
where did you find that text?

>>16188883
One of the most underappreciated thinkers of XX century. Thx for posting Don Nicolás, anon.

>>16195434
he doesnt look badass

>>16197457
And his daughter is cutie.

>My boy Laxness chilling with my man Tarkovsky

>>16184528
Some of his essays are the comfiest texts ever

>>16197302
lil carl jung lookin ass

>>16198126
Goldmund was a self-insert confirmed

>>16198140
I've read demian, steppenwolf, siddharta and beneath the wheel and they all felt like self-inserts. I still enjoyed them though

>>16198227
Looks like a medieval witch lmao

>>16186631
He looks so grungy and gross, not comfy at all

>>16188904
Elijah Wood energy

>>16192441
Sad. Wipes tear.

My boy Georgie looking dapper

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>>16189256

My sweet stateless grumpy old timer.

peak comfy

>>16198826
Are you an argie? I always get the impression that the argies calling him Georgie only know about him through shitty documentaries

>>16186650
underrated

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>>16185963
Bukowski is the coolest looking old guy i have ever seen.

>>16188412
is that bukowski lmfao

>>16200473
Yes, I'm an Argie.
>only know about him through shitty documentaries
What the hell does that have to do with anything? I can assure you I know Borges from reading his work and books about him.
His father was also named Jorge. Therefore, the need for a way to call them differently. Georgie was the nickname his friends and family used for him.

>>16197357
what a dandy kek

>>16198263

This is the look of a man who was forced to go play in the sun one time in his life, and hated it so much that he knew that he would set himself, organize his life so that he would never have to demean himself in such a way ever again. Because fun and play are inauthentic capitalist tricks.

>>16198227
what's she wearing? a necklace?

My boy

>>16202154

Moonface 3/10 but still decently thin Asian #5y617043 is wearing a conventionally kinky/provocative neck-piece with her ordinary outfit to go with Western Rebel that she's latched onto. The tableaux is very Clockwork Orange, right down to the colorful furniture, and seeming internal misery of the actors. Hollaback has a sense that he has to play the part of the miserable writer and I bet he's clued his wife in on that.

I sincerely hope they stay with each other.

>>16198227
>>16202154
Something similar to pic related probably

having a nice meal

>>16183106
>I always visualize him sitting on his wooden bench outside his Black Forest house, alongside his wife who, with her perverse knitting enthusiasm, ceaselessly knits winter socks for him from the wool she has shorn from their own Heidegger sheep.
>I cannot visualize Heidegger other than sitting on the bench outside his Black Forest house, alongside his wife, who all her life totally dominated him and who knitted all his socks and crocheted all his caps and baked all his bread and wove all his bedlinen and who even cobbled up his sandals for him. Heidegger was a kitschy brain….. a feeble thinker from the Alpine foothills, as I believe, and just about right for the German philosophical hot-pot. For decades they ravenously spooned up that man Heidegger, more than anybody else, and overloaded their stomachs with his stuff. Heidegger had a common face, not a spiritual one, Reger said, he was through and through an unspiritual person, devoid of all fantasy, devoid of all sensibility, a genuine German philosophical ruminant, a ceaselessly gravid German philosophical cow, Reger said, which grazed upon German philosophy and thereupon for decades let its smart little cow-pats drop on it….
>Heidegger is the petit-bourgeois of German philosophy, the man who has placed on German philosophy his kitschy nightcaps, that kitschy black night-cap which Heidegger always wore, on all occasions. Heidegger is the carpet-slipper and night-cap philosopher of the Germans, nothing else.

>>16198263
amazing

>You will never get to slay sea beasts with Papa

>>16192370
Nice picture. Reminder that WF tried to join the Air Force in WWI but was told to go away because he was such a manlet he would not have been able to see out of the cockpit unless he sat on four cushions, and then his feet would not have reached the rudder-pedals.

André Breton looks a little bit like pepe

>>16183220
Wasn't he blind (or almost)? Wouldn't trust his aim if I was standing nearby.

>>16186046

EP is one of the few authors who actually sounds like what he looks like.

WITH USURRRRRRRRRRA

>>16197357
This should be a WRITERS WITH CATS thread.

>>16203970
Celine also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17ZiUnRRGU

>>16203993

D*g lovers BTFO

>>16204009

For some reason writers seem to go predominantly for black cats. (Of course Borges was half-blind. He paid top peso for a pedigree blue persian but this was what they gave him, and he was none the wiser.)

>>16204061
Baudelaire’s cat wasn’t black tho. Also share poems about cats.

I

Dans ma cervelle se promène
Ainsi qu'en son appartement,
Un beau chat, fort, doux et charmant.
Quand il miaule, on l'entend à peine,

Tant son timbre est tendre et discret ;
Mais que sa voix s'apaise ou gronde,
Elle est toujours riche et profonde.
C'est là son charme et son secret.

Cette voix, qui perle et qui filtre
Dans mon fonds le plus ténébreux,
Me remplit comme un vers nombreux
Et me réjouit comme un philtre.

Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et contient toutes les extases ;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.

Non, il n'est pas d'archet qui morde
Sur mon coeur, parfait instrument,
Et fasse plus royalement
Chanter sa plus vibrante corde,

Que ta voix, chat mystérieux,
Chat séraphique, chat étrange,
En qui tout est, comme en un ange,
Aussi subtil qu'harmonieux !

II

De sa fourrure blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaumé, pour l'avoir
Caressée une fois, rien qu'une.

C'est l'esprit familier du lieu ;
Il juge, il préside, il inspire
Toutes choses dans son empire ;
Peut-être est-il fée, est-il dieu ?

Quand mes yeux, vers ce chat que j'aime
Tirés comme par un aimant
Se retournent docilement
Et que je regarde en moi-même

Je vois avec étonnement
Le feu de ses prunelles pâles,
Clairs fanaux, vivantes opales,
Qui me contemplent fixement.

>>16204061
Heinlein really liked cats, so there ought to be a better picture than this out there, but if there is, I haven't found it.

>>16203529
>Had a wife and fucked Arendt on the side: Heidegger
>Had no wife and didn't screw Arendt from any side: Bernhardt

are manga authors also allowed?
>yes they are

Nice thread

>>16186017
is this the guy who writes the art of manliness articles

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>>16189112
Mark Twain would have slain on twitter.

>>16188095
where do I start?

>>16185663
>I-is that German? I'm gonna, I'm gonna.. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>16185963
IMAGINE

>>16204395
The fact that he didn't have sex only increases the probability that he was smart, and thus right on Heidegger

>>16183414
how many anti-semitic slurs did that parrot know

>>16205134
Who?