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[ERROR] No.2102659 [Reply] [Original]

is it true that basically all literature is bored rich people writing down stupid shit?

>> No.2102671

>>2102659
American literature, mostly
Literature, no

>> No.2102676

zyzz got riped and died in a sauna.
All the muscles in the world didn't change the fact he was a filthy kurd with a heart defect.

>> No.2102682

>>2102671
lulwut.

http://en.wikipedia..org/wiki/American_literature

I'll just sit here in america where most of the best authors of the past centuries have called home.

>> No.2102690

>>2102671

>murrika
>literature

Pick one.

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>>2102659

Not all literature, but all novels, yeah, pretty much. Decadent bourgeois "artform" which can only exist in an unequal society.

>> No.2102714

More like bored drunk people.

The greatest English language writer who ever lived grew up extremely poor.

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>>2102714

He wasn't poor.

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>>2102717

You're adorable.

>> No.2102720

>>2102717
no u

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>>2102718

Fuck off, you one eyed spastic.

>> No.2102825

most writers I've met are not rich

>> No.2102835

I know that William Burroughs was able to write and had no need to hold down a normal job unless he really wanted too because he did have a weekly or monthly check that would come in from his trust fund. But most modern authors either are poor or choose to live a poor lifestyle.

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>>2102722
>>2102718
>>2102717
hahahahaha
>filename

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More money more problems.