/lit/ - Literature

>>2480376
>says aureola instead of halo

why are you so pretentious, OP?

Foucault surrounded by a castle of books.

>>2480379
Maybe he's not English? Just because common English changes Latin and Greek words so much, doesn't mean other languages do. Aureola is much more common to me too.

>>2480379
I thought it was the right word.

Also, Deleuze and multiplicity.

Downtown by Frederick Seidel

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It’s like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It’s been a fervent year.
I don’t really love fireworks, not really, the flavorful floating shroud
In the nighttime sky above the river and the crowd.
This time, because of the distance upriver perhaps, they’re not loud,
Even the colors aren’t, the patterns getting pregnant and popping.
They get bigger and louder when they start stopping.
They try to rally
At the finale.
It’s the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery—
Which is why the fireworks happen on this side of the island this year.
Shad are back, and we celebrate the Hudson’s Clean Water Act recovery.
What a joy to eat the unborn. We’re monsters, I fear. What monsters we’re.
We’ll binge on shad roe next spring in the delicious few minutes it’s here.

>>2480388
well i guess we'll just have to suspend this discussion until we discover more about OP. but probability points toward english native language.

A weekend with Theo and Wharton

>>2480399
nah its fine. its just odd for me since it looks like the word for nipple. it's like you said Foucault has a nipplehead. plus im bored and not at all interested in your thread. fuck your shit.

>>2480402
No it's not my native language.

Céline and his writting parrot (by the way, the bird is still alive).

>>2480414

>>2480408
Yes I immediately found myself looking at Sartre's boob. Thanks, OP, I didn't want to do that but you made me. Oh what dreams may come now!

>Camus's face when he steals chicks from Sartre

>>2480414
you're just siding with that anon to bring me down. I still win.

>>2480422
>s's

fail

Cioran, Ionesco and Eliade in Paris.

Surf's up, George

>>2480422
yeah but he loses points for giving up on this little thing for a big shot actress who wasnt nearly as pretty

>>2480424
whoops, *Camus'

Here's a nice picture of Berryman smiling.

Dream Song 63: Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.
Henry for joining the human race is bats,
known to be so, by few them who think,
out of the cave.

Instead of the cave! ah lovely-chilly, dark,
ur-moist his cousins hang in hundreds or swerve
with personal radar,
crisisless, kid. Instead of the cave? I serve,
inside, my blind term. Filthy four-foot lights
reflect on the whites of our eyes.

He then salutes for sixty years of it
just now a one of valor and insights,
a theatrical man,
O scholar & Legionnaire who as quickly might
have killed as cast you. Olè. Stormed with years
he tranquil commands and appears.

Albert Camus with his cat, 'Etranger'.

Nabokov with his net.

Céline on a tricycle.

>>2480444
daw

>>2480445
creepy

moooaarr

Anyone got some Lacan?

Gabo Marquez wearing a book as a hat.

Zig Zag Zelda

Che not looking as cool as he usually does.

Beckett had a hell of a face.

Proust dying.

Young Barthes looking swell.

>seeing that rotten face after reading Journey to the End of the Night
>it all makes perfect sense

>>2480444
Serious competition here:
Hermann Hesse doing the cat with his cat.

>>2480494
fuck

I love these threads

I've always found this picture of Gide both badass and out of character.

ITT: circle-jerk
silver spoofed white raised in privilege privilege

burroughs/kerouac!

>>2480475
Don't forget Che Guevara as colleague of Don Draper.

>>2480505
I was gonna post this one!

One of my favorites, Hunter Thompson with Johnny Depp and John Cusack and unidentified inflatable female

Bukowski as a glorious allegory of his own work.

>>2480522
What allegory? Bukowski very blatantly wrote about his own shittyhah life.

>>2480522
hah

>>2480530
In the sense that all the elements are there. The ugly old man, taking a shit, drinking a beer, looking at naked women. Add a cheap radio playing classical music and a cigarette and you have all the defining aspects of Bukowski.

It would be like Burroughs posing in a spaceship buggering a young exotic boy at gunpoint with a needle in his arm.

>>2480545
It's an allegory of his work because Bukowski's work is a huge piece of shit.

>>2480548
that's also what I thought

>>2480548
>his insecurity demands the assertion of his personal preferences even where it's never called for.

>>2480565
reported

>>2480422
HAH that looks like a softball team portrait

Here's Dylan Thomas bein studious

Hemingway's quite startling in color.

Mark Twain in the laboratory of Nikola Telsa.
Tesla doing his Wizard of Oz impression in background left.

you are all trumped

Borges' trollface

This picture of Thomas Bernhard amuses me.

Simone defends Sartre from the lobster monsters

>>2480579
That's awesome.

soliciting more

The GOAT Romantic.

Foucault with hair

>>2481006
Byron was shit.

Keats and Coleridge were vastly superior.

>>2481027
Interesting! I must admit though - I do love his bald head.

>>2481036
This. Keats can write circles around Byron. He was only well known for being a asshole.

Wyndham Lewis dissin' Joyce.

>>2481027
The thought had honestly never crossed my mind that foucault, at one point, had hair

>>2481062

Now, now. That's crazy talk. Settle down there junior.

Myself, I like this photo of Alfred Jarry and his new find.

oops, forgot the pic.

>>2480500

more!

Flaubert in Cairo

Hemingway with son, conquering nature

>>2482326
oh god he had a son. why did he shoot himself. what a prick

Faulkner debarking

Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, and John Steinbeck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTWF1bDPn0

His son told him he'd 'ruined 12 lives' meaning his family.

>>2482329
To >>2482341

>>2482339
goddamn she was HIDEOUS.

steinbeck in a mirror

>>2480514

Burroughs has murder on his mind. MURDER.

Paul Auster's dad.

Portrait of an invisable man is a great read.

>>2480445
more nabokov with net

nabokov's wife is wearing Lolita glasses!

tolstoy

Chekhov with the cast of "The Seagull"

>>2482358
he married a hottie

H. L. Mencken, the day after Prohibition was repealed.

>>2482358
Nabokov pole dancing on an invisible pole too.

I bet u didnt know Foucault had a jaguar and was a very refined and fancy man while being in Sweden.

Voici Foucault dandy.

Nabokov was fugly with those varicose veined, hairless legs.

Here's Solomon Rushdie, gettin gully with Condi Rice

>>2482465
>Salman's face
>looks like he knows a dirty secret about your mother

>>2482474

being edgy

>>2482474

He probably does know a dirty secret about your mom. Apparently, he's quite the womanizer.

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright

In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.

Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.

>>2482441
Of course I knew. Did you know that when he was in Tunisia, he saved the owner of a bar whose establishment was on fire?

>>2482693
I didn't know pictures of Dostoyevsky existed...

Why aren't you hanging out with Chekhov and Tolstoy?

David Foster Walrus. Beta as fuck.

Borges being the big dick playa he is.

>>2480444
Sartre's cat was called Néant (nothingness).

>>2485068
Also, when Sartre was 18, he said he wanted to be Spinoza and Stendhal.

>>2482482
Him standing next to her makes Olivia Wilde look like a call-girl.

captcha: BROS urtstoma

Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg

>>2484343
I don't think any dude with a girl on either side has ever looked beta, unless they're in a picture with another dude with more attractive girls on either side.

>>2480574
Tolstoy, too.

>>2486480
implying she isn't?
wasn't she cast as a nigger lover in house?

brutes the lot of you

>>2482329
He was electroshocked out of his wits.

>>2486543
he was a leftist, and we know leftists don't have feelings.

Faulkner as a handsome young gentleman.

>>2486555
Like he wasn't handsome as an old one, too.

>>2486568
t..twain?

>>2486570
Not unruly enough to be Twain. Look at those eyebrows. It's like they're reaching out.

>>2486570
Don't say that to his face. Faulkner will fuck you up

>>2486578
was Faulkner autistic?

While we're on the topic, why has Tom Wolfe cribbed Twain's sartorial style? It really doesn't work for him.