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Describe an author in two words and we guess who it is

>patriotic manlet

>> No.4690581

mishima

>> No.4690591

Androgynous Southerner

>> No.4690608

>>4690577
Joyce

>> No.4690613

Reclusive Xenophobe.

>> No.4690614

Hitler

>> No.4690615

Jew Lawyer

>> No.4690618

Solipsistic Diarist

>> No.4690620

Hairy Wannabe

>> No.4690624

Corporeal Mime

>> No.4690627

>>4690614
It's supposed to be two words.

>> No.4690628

>>4690627

Adolf Hitler

>> No.4690631

>>4690628
Is it Knut Hamsun?

>> No.4690644

>>4690577
Tom Clancy.

>> No.4690645

>>4690591
truman capote

>>4690613
jd salinger. how's high school?

>>4690615
>>4690618
>>4690620
>>4690624
kurt vonnegut

>> No.4690647

Self-deprecating Ukrainian

>> No.4690652

Adolf Hitler

>> No.4690654

>>4690647
Stalin

>> No.4690657

Paranoid Jew

>> No.4690658

Latin-American Incest-enthusiast (fuck you it's close enough to two words)

>> No.4690660

>>4690645
No, not JD Salinger, and I am 23 for your information.

>> No.4690663

>manly man

>> No.4690664

>>4690658
Adolf Hitler

>> No.4690665

>>4690645
Jew Lawyer is not Kurt Vonnegut the one I meant.

Come on, there is a Jew Lawyer that's highly beloved in universal literature.

>> No.4690672

>>4690663
Hemingway?

>> No.4690669

>>4690664
That's a bingo!

>> No.4690670

>>4690665
I'm assuming you mean Kafka.
He wasn't a lawyer though

>> No.4690675

hells angels

>> No.4690679

>>4690670
Wasn't he? What he was then? I've always though he was a lawyer for some shitty company

>> No.4690684

>>4690672
Yes! Very good.

>> No.4690685

>>4690679
He was a legal clerk aka a paperboy

>> No.4690686

>>4690657
Kafka

>> No.4690688

>>4690670

>> No.4690689

Angus Burger

>> No.4690690

>>4690577
fart fetish

>> No.4690692

>>4690685
Poor Kafka.

>> No.4690693

>>4690689
zizek

>> No.4690698

Jew Jew

>> No.4690707

turbo egoist

>> No.4690708

>>4690698
jesus

>> No.4690715

>>4690647
Natalia Poklonskaya is an author too?

>> No.4690717

>>4690698
Adorno

>> No.4690718

>>4690698
Thomas the Tank Engine

>> No.4690721

>>4690707
stirner

>> No.4690726

>>4690652
Heidegger

>> No.4690729

>>4690577
Elias Lönnrot

>> No.4690736

>>4690721
close, a little bit more recent.

>> No.4690738

>>4690736
nietzsche/rand

>> No.4690741

Syphilitic Fedora

>> No.4690743

>>4690738
It's Ayn Rand.

>> No.4690745

>>4690741
nietzsche

>> No.4690747

>>4690741
Nietzsche.

>> No.4690748

>>4690660
suuuuuuure you are

cormac mccarthy?

>> No.4690749

>>4690698
Saul Bellow.

>> No.4690750

King of Metaphors

>> No.4690751

yellow submarine

>> No.4690753

>>4690658
would 'incestuous latino" work better?

>> No.4690755

>>4690647
gogol

>> No.4690756

>>4690755
finally

>> No.4690760

>>4690658
garcia marquez

>> No.4690762

muh outdoors

>> No.4690766

>>4690762
Thoreau

>> No.4690768

old loner

>> No.4690772

>>4690768
schopenhauer

>> No.4690773

>>4690658
Mario Vargas Llosa

>> No.4690774

>>4690762
jack kerouac

>> No.4690776

>>4690658
Garcia Marquez
>>4690751
Ken Keasey/Tim Leary?

>> No.4690777

Monad Monad

>> No.4690780

>>4690772
Right.

>> No.4690781

>>4690776
Tim Leary is in the ballpark but then not really. It's fiction.

>> No.4690782

Talentless Hack

>> No.4690783

Cynical aphorist

>> No.4690787

>>4690748
Nope.

>> No.4690788

>>4690782
Everyone in a lit critique thread

>> No.4690789

>>4690782
DFW
Misanthropic degenerate

>> No.4690790

>>4690782
George RR Martin?

>> No.4690794

>>4690618
Tao Lin

>> No.4690798

drunkest playwrite

>> No.4690799

Arrogant Lesbian

>> No.4690800

Edgy bum

>> No.4690801

>>4690698
Phillip Roth

>> No.4690802

>>4690799
Virginia Woolfe

>> No.4690803

>>4690799
Anne Frank?

>> No.4690805

>>4690800
David Foster Wallace / William S. Burroughs?

>> No.4690806

Sarcoma'd Rectum

>> No.4690814

fascist...libertarian?

>> No.4690817

>>4690814
Heinlein!!1

>> No.4690818

fart fucker

>> No.4690820

>>4690814
in america the two go hand in hand
>>4690818
Beckett

>> No.4690821

>>4690814
Ron Paul

>> No.4690823

>>4690645
>truman capote

No, it's a chick. And Capote wasn't androgynous; he was a fag.

>>4690645
>>4690794
No. Think more literal in terms of "diarist".

>> No.4690832

>>4690776
>yellow submarine
Nobody knows? It's not that difficult actually.

>> No.4690828

>>4690817
first try!

>> No.4690829

>>4690799
Simone de Beauvoir?

>> No.4690834

>>4690823
flannery o'connor

>> No.4690835

Drank regularly water through the ass and was proud of it.

>> No.4690838

actually pseudoscience

>> No.4690841

>>4690838
Dawkins

>> No.4690848

>>4690698
Adolf Hitler

>> No.4690849

Depression -> anti-natalism

>> No.4690854

>>4690838
quantum physics

>> No.4690855

>>4690849
adolf hitler

>> No.4690856

stole fame

>> No.4690861

>>4690829
Sartre and her were a couple nigga.

>> No.4690862
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4690862

>>4690834
Jesus no, it's McCullers. O'Connor was ugly but not androgynous.

>> No.4690865

>>4690838
Jung

>> No.4690866

Sartre polished

>> No.4690869

>>4690835
Bear Grylls.

>> No.4690875

>>4690866
camus

>> No.4690877
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>>4690862
>Androgynous
Whatever.

>> No.4690881

>>4690862
My old roommate is her granddaughter... or great granddaughter or something. Better looking than Carson, but probably not quite as good a writer.

>> No.4690883

>>4690869
Not even a proper writer.

>> No.4690888

>>4690862
How the fuck is that androgynous? She dressed tomboyish that does not make her androgynous, holy shit.

>> No.4690891

>>4690849
Schopenhauer

>> No.4690892

Agoraphobic Housewife

>> No.4690894

>>4690892
Plath

>> No.4690896

repuplican *wink wink*

>> No.4690900

>>4690894
I guess she does fit too, but no.

Hint: nearly all the main characters in her final novel are agoraphobes.

>> No.4690902

Curious Grandma

>> No.4690904

Not DavidFosterWallce

>> No.4690911

butthurt african

>> No.4690912

>>4690904
Hitler, Adolf

>> No.4690913

>>4690892
Shirley Jackson.

>> No.4690920

>>4690904
jonathan franzen

>> No.4690923

>>4690911
chinua achebe

>> No.4690924
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4690924

>>4690913

>> No.4690929

Diarrhea Queen

>> No.4690933

>>4690929
Nora Barnacle

>> No.4690934

>>4690923
correct

tangential seaman

>> No.4690938

>>4690934
Melville

>> No.4690946

>>4690938
making these too easy

feminist missionary

>> No.4690957

Suicidal Austrian

>> No.4690962

>>4690946
Gaiman

>> No.4690963

handsomest englishman

>> No.4690966

>>4690963
Lord Byron

>> No.4690970

-No Quotes

>> No.4690971

>>4690966
think post 1900 poet

>> No.4690973

>>4690962
nah

>> No.4690974

Seussical Satire

(not Vonnegut)

>> No.4690975

>>4690675
Hunter S Thompson

>> No.4690983

>>4690963
>>4690971
Hughes?

>> No.4690986

>>4690963
Christopher Hitchens

>> No.4690990

Christian nationalist

>> No.4690993

>>4690957
Wittgenstein

>> No.4690998

Marie Sueist

>> No.4691002

>>4690993
Yup

>> No.4691006

>>4690957
...actually adolf hitler this time?

>> No.4691008
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4691008

>>4690971
>>4690983
>>4690986

I think he's too obscure. It's rupert brooke.

>> No.4691013

>>4691008
>too obscure

His boring poems are in just about every Brit Lit textbook out there.

>> No.4691025

>>4691013
Most, yes, but when he hits one right, he hits it right. Too bad he died early, he would have developed into a bitter poet with angst.

>> No.4691034

Bookish Magoo

>> No.4691084

>southern virgin

Hint: woman

>> No.4691089

>>4690613
Lovecraft

>> No.4691090

>>4691084
Flannery

>> No.4691091

Another one
>suicidal bell

>> No.4691093

>>4691091
Plath

>> No.4691096

>>4691090
Bingo

>> No.4691102

>>4691093
Aye.
>sister authors

>> No.4691112

>>4691102
Brontes

>> No.4691122

>>4690838
Sam Harris

>> No.4691127

>>4691112
>these are too easy for anon :)
Heteronym portugese

>> No.4691129

Lou Reed

>> No.4691145

>synesthesia poet
>Chilean poet
>Magical-realist columbian

>> No.4691151

Genitalia Synonym

>> No.4691157

>>4691151
Charles Dickens (lol)

>> No.4691167

>>4691145
>I don't know
>Pablo Neruda
>GG Marquez

>> No.4691176

>not-a-man victorian

>> No.4691186

> Euphoric scholar

>> No.4691197

>>4691176
Browning
>>4691186
Dawkins
>>4691145
Nabokov
Neruda
Marquez

>> No.4691200

>>4691157
No actually. Didn't write in English.

>> No.4691204

>>4691197
>>4691167
Both got last two right. Hint for first one: French modernist (saw a thread about this guy the other day)

>> No.4691209

>>4691204
Baudelaire

>> No.4691224

>>4691200
can I've a nationality or at least some time period?
>>4691209
They're in same time period, but this guy's younger

>> No.4691231

Naive transient

>> No.4691291

>>4691224
French

>> No.4691424

Annoying Tripfag

>> No.4691441

japanese englishman

>> No.4692459

>>4691151
Rene Descartes

>> No.4692485

>>4690782
John Updike

>>4691424
Tao Lin

>> No.4692501

Mother Fucker

>> No.4692518

>>4690657
Jon Ronson

>> No.4692524

Fart Sucker

Edgy Drunk

Sad Friend

>> No.4692525

sexy fucker

>> No.4692534

>>4692501
Freud/Sophocles

>> No.4692536

>>4690577
Real pissant

>> No.4692538

>>4692525
adolf hitler

>> No.4692548

>>4692534
>Freud
Yes


Chronic Nose-wipper
Unbeatable Charlatan

>> No.4692569

>>4692525
Wittgenstein

>> No.4692575

>>4692525
Albert Camus

>> No.4692588

>>4692575
bang on the money

>> No.4692631

>Il Poeta

>> No.4692650

>>4692548
>Chronic Nose-wipper
Jizzek

>> No.4692651

>>4692536
Kant

Euphoric ex-Jew

>> No.4692662

>>4692651
Spot on!

Stephen Fry?

>> No.4692668

>>4690777

Liebniz

>> No.4692671

>>4692662
Way older

>> No.4692684

>>4690975
Yes.

>> No.4692690

>>4690660

Lovecraft then?

>> No.4692703

Rambling sperglord

>> No.4692705

>>4692671
Chomsky?

>> No.4692706

Moonscape Face.

>> No.4692710

>>4692651
Spinoza

>> No.4692713

>>4691151
I give up anon. Is it Maupassant? Anyone knows?
>>4691145
first one was Rimbaud
>>4692631
Dante

Goat German

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>>4692710
Ding ding

fucker really was euphoric look at him

>> No.4692722

bespectacled spook

>> No.4692730

>>4692525
Byron

One more before I go
>Big Brother

>> No.4692731

Boozy beggar

>> No.4692737

>>4692731
heidegger

>> No.4692745

>>4692731
Bukowski

>> No.4692748

>>4692731

TopKekowski

>> No.4692751

>>4692737
>>4692745
>>4692748
Heidegger! first time

Okay...
Permanently pissed :^)

>> No.4692757

>>4692751
Socrates

>> No.4692768

>>4692722
Eliot

>> No.4692774

>>4692768
Nope

>> No.4692778

>>4692757
Damn you guys are good

>> No.4692780

Arms dealer

>> No.4692785

>>4692780
rimbaud

>> No.4692787

>>4692785

Nope.

>> No.4692790

>>4692785

If I were doing Rimbaud, I would have writ

"gaysex modemmeasurment"

>> No.4692817

>>4692774
Satre
>4692785
-_- how would he deal arms?

>> No.4692841

>>4692713
>>4692459
>>4691157


>>4691151
Is Balzac

>> No.4692853

>>4692841
Damn
>ex-prisoner

>> No.4692855

>>4692817

Close. Sartre wrote an introduction to one of his books.

>> No.4692875

>>4692853
Bertrand Russell?
Oscar Wilde?
Richard Brautigan?

>> No.4692879

Gay AIDS

>> No.4692884

>>4692879
thom gunn

>> No.4692887

fat homo

>> No.4692943

>>4692879

focoo

>> No.4692971

>>4692943
bingo

>> No.4693260

Buck-toothed mystery-man

>> No.4693268

>>4690838
all science

>> No.4693304

>>4693260
Pinchin

>> No.4693314

>>4690698
Spinoza

>> No.4693321

>>4692879
Eduard Limonov

>> No.4693394

Overrated Russian

>> No.4693406

Chinese shoplifter

>> No.4693413

Talent: undiscernible

>> No.4693417

Majestic motherfucker.

>> No.4693423

>>4690849
tommy ligodless

>> No.4693445

Bisexual hipster

>> No.4693525

garrulous autist

>> No.4693562
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>>4693413
undiscernible rather than indiscernible...

>> No.4693569

>>4690615
Kafka

>> No.4693595

>>4693394
Dostoevsky.

>> No.4693607

Meme casualty

>> No.4693610

>>4693595
Nah. 20th Century

>> No.4693630

>>4693607
Fdurnurr

>> No.4693678

>>4693445
Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.4693702

>>4693610
Nabokov

>> No.4693714

>>4693610
Nabacunt?

>> No.4693719

Religious autist

>> No.4693720

Pseudonymous philosopher

>> No.4693722

Pulp King

>> No.4693724

>>4693702
>>4693714
Yup

All flows

>> No.4693728

>>4690577

Martin Heidegger

>> No.4693732

Space Octopus

>> No.4693736

>>4690577
mishima

>> No.4693739

>>4693720
Pseudo-Aristotle?

>> No.4693756

>>4690783
Cioran

>> No.4693757

Emo kid

>> No.4693778

>>4693720
Plato nee Aristocles?

>> No.4693788

nazi communist

>> No.4693797

>>4693788
Dugin

>> No.4693804

>>4690818
joyce

>> No.4693805

>>4690690
Joyce. And your farts are my favorite, anon.

>> No.4693807

>>4693720
Jesus

>> No.4693816

drunk frenchwoman

>> No.4693817

God's prophet

>> No.4693823

Francis Bacon

>> No.4693830

>>4693823
Francis Bacon ?

>> No.4693834

>>4693720

Johannes de Silentio

>> No.4693849

>>4693817
william blake

>> No.4693842

Lesbian Hang(wo)man

>>4693719
Thomas of Aquinas
>>4693722
Pychon/Delillo
>>4693728
Hannah Arendt/Jean-Saul Partre
>>4693757
Neil Gaiman
>>4692855
Fanon
>>4691441
J.G.Ballard
>>4690990
Saul Dze Ni Tsung
>>4690814
that isn't fair. All Libertarians are fascist.

>> No.4693855

fat fat

>like, if I could use four words, it would be fat fat fat fat. fatty fatty fat fat.

>> No.4693856

>>4693842
>All Libertarians are fascist
u fokin wot m8

>> No.4693864

>>4693816
hArrtür Rimbaud

>> No.4693870

ill cockeyed

>> No.4693876

>>4693797
Νein. Dugin is is too much of a hack to deserve to be called either a nazi or a communist. Mein Nazi communist actually served in SS.

>> No.4693883

>>4693856
Explain why they aren't. They usually believe that people should have the right to make other people their property/subjects.

>> No.4693891

Colourblind storyteller

>> No.4693896

>>4693856
is fact.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034429/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_12

>> No.4693899

>>4693891
Virgil

>> No.4693904

>>4693823
William Shakespeare

>> No.4693914

>>4693719
Kierkegaard

>> No.4693916

>>4693899
No, but fecking close

>> No.4693917

>>4693883
>let's allow tons of immigrants into the country because we're running out of surplus labor!
>gay marriage? why the fuck not, you racist shitlords? gays make money, too!
>money money money money
>thomas sowell, btw, check mate nazis
>muh turing, gotta let homos give me cash, too
Lolbergs are like tumblr with capital

>> No.4693931

Autobiographical classicist

>> No.4693933

arsehole marquis

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>>4693883

>explain why they aren't
They completely disagree in almost every way, to start. Libertarians are the kind of people fascists want to destroy the most, save gommunists

>> No.4693944

Mother Superior

>> No.4693954

>>4693933
de sade?

>> No.4693977

>>4693917
>>4693943
The first Ayn Rand ever was funded by Benito Mussolini:
>>4693896
Perhaps by your measure the Italian fascist party isn't as fascist as Roosevelt the Terrible. Huehuahuehue

>> No.4693981

>>4693954
you silly goose!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Marquis

>> No.4693995
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4693995

Best Writer (ever)

>> No.4694005

>>4693995
John Green

>> No.4694029

>>4693870
Sartre?

>> No.4694037

>>4693855
Chesterton

>> No.4694042

>>4693816
Anais Nin?

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>>4693943

>not knowing his views on kids

He's certainly fascist to children.

>> No.4694079

>>4693756
Nope. Think 17th century.

>> No.4694084

>>4692875
No anon. It's o'henry
>>4692879
Foucalt
>>4693720
Pessoa

>> No.4694127

>>4694077
>you cannot murder your baby, you can just starve it, your titmilk is your property!!!

>> No.4694130

>>4690783
Voltaire

>> No.4694160

>>4693931
Mark Twain (?) or Joyce

>> No.4694170

>>4692780
Wait, who's the arm dealer?

>> No.4694222

>>4694170
RAMBO

>> No.4694226

>>4693816
Marguerite Duras ?

>> No.4694230

>Queen's favorite (playwright)
>queen's favorite (author)

>> No.4695635

>>4693933
Nope, here's another one

Sassoon buddies.

>> No.4696441

>>4690750

Shakespeare?