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bumping for interest...

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apparently Henry David Thoreau was a lifelong kissless virgin

>>3310022
My all time favorite paragraph on Wikipedia:

In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called "my most prominent feature."[19] Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "[Thoreau] is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty."[20] Thoreau also wore a neckbeard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.[21] However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair "will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity."

>>3310022
>that feel when you will never be a virgin like Thoreau
why did I have to get raped? why wasn't feminism there to protect me?

>>3310024
OH. MY. GOD.
I...I don't even...I guess it doesnt really matter since he became a wizard, but damn
captcha: cruelties iessibus

>implying I am as cool or deep as Thoreau

>>3310024
oh look, another superficial bitch who is too afraid of a deep as fuck man, so she resorts to belittling him. Hows that dirt nap going for you, bitch.

>>3309954
James Joyce was a total pervert. Excerpt from one of his love letters:

>At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

>>3310051
>all those farts
dear god, is that really what sex is like?

>>3310051
>people actually respect this man and his work

no thanks.

>>3310046

Hating on dead women because they didn't fuck bygone neckbeards of years past? Get it together, bro. This is sad.

>>3310051

>James Joyce was a total pervert.

ie joyce was just another sexually repressed irishman

>>3310067
she was probably just mad the he refused to fuck her filthy farting ass

>>3310072

You need to stop this projecting.

>oh look, another superficial bitch who is too afraid of a deep as fuck man

It's sad.

>responses to arse full of farts
time to abandon thread

>>3310022

Any specific texts where he discusses it? Or is this only the theory of other people?

>>3310080
>>3310067
jokes on you guys, i was only pretending to be projecting.

>>3310098
unless shining big breasted forest nymphs came by that cabin, I dont think he got any sex

>>3310105
that was why he never needed to shave his neckbeard, it was his secret, and why he died a fulflled man. . . they did.

>>3310111

>dying without ever knowing physical intimacy with someone you love

How is that dying fulfilled again? He clearly wanted to experience that but never did.

>>3310158
i just told you he was physically intimate with forest nymphs, which are way better than real women, who are actually pretty disgusting creatures.

>>3310158

>He clearly wanted to experience that but never did.

How is that clear?

OP here and I want specific text of Thoreau, or any writer, discussing his/her virginity. Him having lived in a cabin at one point in his life is not proof that he was a virgin. He obviously spent a good amount of his life outside of a cabin so that argument is just silly.

>>3309954
I feel like Bukowski talked about losing his virginity in Ham on Rye, but I haven't read it since high school, so maybe someone else could clarify.

>>3310177

>How is that clear?

Here:
>>3310024

>Thoreau also wore a neckbeard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.

A guy who was indifferent to women wouldn't be insisting to people that the ladies were digging his style.

The guy was just clueless in that regard. It doesn't make him a lesser man, but never getting laid and knowing that basic human experience hardly makes him more "fulfilled".

>>3310199
He was asking you to say where he makes his virginity to women clear, he hadn't supposed he was indifferent to it.

And I've seen uglier men than him fuck more women than I'd think.

>>3310220
virginity clear*
indifferent to women*

>>3310067
Lel. Im pretty sure hes hating on her because she's emblematic of the kind of superficial bitch who wont touch ugly-but-deep.

Also, wtf? I looked Thoreau up and he doesnt look ugly at all! Am i the only one who sees it? Hell, even poe was uglier

>>3310415
(and Poe got summa dat jb action)

>>3310415
nigga, are you blind?

fags and femanons: would y'all rather be banged by Poe or Thoreau? OK, neither are ideal, but at least tell this dude Alcott was right: Thoreau is beyond homely and into legit ugly territory.

>>3310439
I would say he was not attractive. And the artist probably left out half the gory details.

>>3310415

He wouldn't look ugly at all if it wasn't for that shit neckbeard to be honest.

>>3310476

Not him, but he hasn't got a face loveable by any but a mother or a desperate fool

>>3310477

I wouldn't say that he was attractive either but it sure wouldn't matter and even more if we are talking about the XIX when there was no such thing as a modern american aesthetic standardization.

Captcha: grewsket this

Frederich Nietzsche was also a lifelong kissless virgin. There are some rumors that he may have contracted syphilis from a prostitute, but those can't be substantiated.

What we do know is that he never dated or entertained the thought of romance with anyone except a colleague of his, Lou Salomé, who friendzoned him so hard that he went irreparably insane.

Nietzsche was such a failure at getting laid that some people conjecture that he was a closet homosexual

>>3310102
Sure. Bitter kissless virgin alert.

>>3310415
Right. And you douche bags always look deeper than a woman's body and looks... Oh wait...

>>3310521
>Nietzsche was such a failure at getting laid that some people conjecture that he was a closet homosexual
not everyone is a fucking hedonist, you humongous faggot.

>>3310521
Wow. Did not know that. Interesting.

>>3310535
He said "some people conjecture" not necessarily his opinion. Jeez. Chill out.

>>3310521
I've heard Fritz had his marriage proposals rejected by four different wimmin.

>>3310534
There's def. a double standard here. Men want women to look past appearances, but can't be assed to themselves. Im very guilty of this.

>>3310534

I've always looked deeper than body and looks. I'm just unable to ignore them as part of the whole. It's how I'm wired.

>>3310561
That's fine. As long as you don't expect other people to ignore them as "part of the whole" when considering you as a partner. That would just be hypocritical.

I'm certain Pessoa was, although I don't know if his work discusses it specifically.

>>3310577

Of course.

It's important to take care of yourself if you're looking to attract a partner.

>>3310454
>the artist probably left out half the gory details.

that's a photo

>>3310190
He lost his virginity to his friend's mom when he was like 20

>>3310491
>there was no such thing as a modern american aesthetic standardization.

Neckbeards are never fashionable. Louisa Alcott agrees.
I'd rather bang Poe or that 'stached German than Thoreau. He doesn't look "bad" necessarily but look in the mirror. I am definitely not beyond mid-tier looks at best and even I can firmly say I'm aesthetically superior to poor Henry.

>>3309954
hermann hesse

John Green
Stephen Chbosky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Kennedy Toole

I'm pretty sure JFK was a virgin.

Julius Evola died a virgin

I'm writing about being a virgin right now.

>>3310715

Why are so many right-wing autists virgins?

>>3310732
You've answered your own question.

man... the 19th century was hard on intellectual men.

>>3310759

Not when you ask the question
'Do you know of any writers or philosophers that were very open about rolling in smang?'

>>3310760
Smang, huh? You kids just can't stick with anything.

>>3310521

Bro, he had a wife.

>>3310778
0/10

>>3310415
That's because Thoreau was gay.