/lit/ - Literature

>>17155315
Everything post 2015 that wins a prize like Booker, Pulitzer, etc.

literature for when you actively try to make yourself as ugly as possible?

Female authors

>>17155315
I want to sniff her socks

>>17155427
i bet they smell problematic

>>17155315
Hemingway and Bukowski

>>17155315
anything leftist

Chuck 'Formerly' Wendig

I would say Mark twain is the most eminent author with very reddit ethos.

Mark twain:

All great writers upon health and morals, both ancient and modern, have struggled with this stately subject ; this shows its dignity and importance. Some of these writers have taken one side, some the other.

Homer, in the second book of the Iliad, says with fine enthusiasm, “Give me masturbation or give me death!”

Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, “To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and impotent it is a benefactor; they that be penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion.”

[…]

Robinson Crusoe says, “I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art.”

Queen Elizabeth said, “It is the bulwark of virginity.”

Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked that, “A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

The immortal Franklin has said, “Masturbation is the mother of invention.” He also said, “Masturbation is the best policy.”

Michelangelo and all the other Old Masters — Old Masters, I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction — have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, “Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.”


Ready player one:

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.


He also wrote an isekai power fantasy about a yankee using modern technology and logic to own backwards medieval papists.

Philip Roth

>>17157201
Oh fuck it's actual line from the book

>>17157201
Dangerously based

>>17157201
Pynchon?

>>17157201
>I would say Mark twain is the most eminent author with very reddit ethos
Dude, wtf kys or take that back

>>17155315
Neil Gaiman
Ernest Cline
Stephen King
Brandon Sanderson
All those British puffs like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett who try to be Monty Python.