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21810445

Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:48:24 2023 No.21810445 [Reply] [Original]

Is it the most /lit/ name?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:49:25 2023 No.21810452 remove everyone but Shakespeare and it would still be the most /lit/ name

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:51:09 2023 No.21810463 1st row: Marco Polo, PASS, Shakespeare, Keats 2nd row: Blake, Thackeray, William Cullen Bryant, PASS 3rd row: PASS, WB Yeats, Faulkner, Robert Wagner 4th row: PASS ALL

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:52:04 2023 No.21810465 >>21810445 Niggerman

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:54:54 2023 No.21810475 File: 48 KB, 640x853, Robert_Wagner_1967.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21810463 >Robert Wagner

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:57:37 2023 No.21810489 >>21810475 Killed Natalie Wood. Also y'all knew I meant Dicky Wagner.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 20:59:05 2023 No.21810495 >>21810489 I assume he's included because his middle name was Wilhelm and Germans use multiple honorific names.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:00:07 2023 No.21810502 >>21810463 >>21810489 Also fyi third from left, bottom row is William Lutheran Pierce, the secretive neonazi writer they parodied in that one Seinfeld episode.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:00:27 2023 No.21810504 >>21810495 I just realized what this thread meant picrel being all Williamses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:03:39 2023 No.21810514 File: 66 KB, 710x528, c3cc5aa34f4623e47bbda4f318ffcc88.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21810502 you talking about Donald O'Brien leader of the Aryan Union and who some consider progenitor of the Alt-Right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:04:13 2023 No.21810519 >>21810445 Who would have thought a popular name also has a lot of celebrities‽ Wow!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:06:39 2023 No.21810531 >>21810502 It's William Carlos Williams you homo

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:09:58 2023 No.21810547 File: 106 KB, 800x1191, William_Luther_Pierce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21810531 They look kinda similar to me. This guy probably has a bigger impact on literature than whoever the fuck that guy is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 21:57:39 2023 No.21810693 >>21810514 Mental illness

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:01:28 2023 No.21810706 >>21810445 mine desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:05:15 2023 No.21810718 >>21810445 It’s Ryan

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:21:34 2023 No.21810757 I counted once in my Oxford Verse anthology, and the two most frequent names are William and Thomas.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:22:52 2023 No.21810766 >>21810547 I have unmasked the Jews that were in the TV and which you were probably thinking were chosen Forgive me they were devious so bad and so mean

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:28:09 2023 No.21810787 >>21810445 Who be the two left-figures in the top row?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:30:32 2023 No.21810797 >>21810531 Why is his middle name Carlos

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:33:01 2023 No.21810808 >>21810445 It's George: Hegel, Eliot, Shaw, Orwell, Bataille, Bernanos, Sorel, Perec, Simenon, Rodenbach, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Perros, Trakl, Simmel, Lukacs, Canguilhem, Borges, Agamben, Bassani, Manganelli

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:37:20 2023 No.21810819 >>21810808 Eliot doesn’t count because that’s a pseudonym.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:39:15 2023 No.21810829 >>21810445 Starting backwards: Burroughs, Gass, Gaddis, Wagner, Faulkner, Yeats, Blake, and the “Hamlet” guy (blanking out the full name) Wow I sucked at this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 22:41:24 2023 No.21810834 F Gardner

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 23:32:09 2023 No.21810989 File: 134 KB, 681x1024, Will+Annual+TRANS4M+Concert+Benefitting+Angel+S-0erKfLvNKx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21810445 yes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:02:55 2023 No.21811412 me desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:06:38 2023 No.21811426 File: 437 KB, 670x673, rudyard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rudyard William Lynch

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:13:03 2023 No.21811451 Only if they go by William. "Will" is the ultimate pleb name.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:13:41 2023 No.21811454 >>21811451 what if they go by Rudyard?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:15:02 2023 No.21811458 >>21811451 I've seen it written before that William is the best name nobody goes by.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 02:16:15 2023 No.21811464 >>21811454 Then they should take a long walk off a short pier desu.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 09:29:47 2023 No.21812370 Donne, Milton, Keats, Dryden, Ashbery, Galsworthy, Dos Passos, Fowles, Updike, Banville, Le Carre, Betjeman, Bunyan, Tolkein, Webster, Buchan, Cheever, Masefield, Steinbeck Don't make me include the 'athons'

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 11:43:37 2023 No.21812547 >>21810766 had a hearty kek, thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 14:56:11 2023 No.21812983 >>21810445 Should hang yourself for not including Wordsworth.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 16:04:57 2023 No.21813188 >>21810445 Pass, pass, Shakespeare, Wordsworth Blake, Thackeray, pass, pass Pass, Yeats, Faulkner, Wagner Gaddis, Gass, Carlos Williams, Burroughs >>21812983 He did

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 17:17:13 2023 No.21813486 File: 1.66 MB, 500x1637, f1755-will-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21811451 What's wrong with Will?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 17:27:20 2023 No.21813524 >>21810495 Too retarded to even use google

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:31:24 2023 No.21813783 File: 555 KB, 1125x1419, F5F8CD20-67CA-493A-B7A6-5EA4522E2917.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:35:40 2023 No.21813805 >>21810808 good list. I'd add Gadamer >>21810989 GOTTA GIT DAT

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:42:42 2023 No.21813831 >>21810445 >>21813188 Is the second one on the top supposed to be William Langland? Google images is showing me that image for him even though there’s no way that’s actually what he looked like. I can’t work out that image’s provenance.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:14:57 2023 No.21813965 >>21813188 Oh, I didn't recognize him. Image on my collected poems edition looks different.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:18:24 2023 No.21813981 >>21813188 Second row far right is O. Henry

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:24:08 2023 No.21813999 >>21812370 If Willhelm counts as a William than Jean and Jonathan and arguably Sean count for John. So add Genet, Racine, Sartre, Rousseau, La Fontaine at least

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 21:11:23 2023 No.21814431 >>21810463 You make the passes sound like they are my fault

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 21:22:42 2023 No.21814483 >>21814431 Tell us who top left, 3rd on 2nd row and 1st on 3rd row are, OP