/lit/ - Literature

Are we being raided

>>4693141
>dead
salinger
>alive
faulkner
>dead or alive
dumas jr

by dead or alive do you mean have sex with an authors dead body, or have sex with an author when they were alive?

>>4693162
anything you wish

>>4693141
William S. Burroughs.

Helen Keller

>>4694155
>consensual
nice
>>4694199
it'd be hard to tell when the life went out of her. i'm not sure what this says about you, but i like to think you're at home with it

>>4693141
I'd an Ayn Rand
She was a pretty hot baabhabhiat in her 30s

Lovecraft, just to truly feel the full effect of that cosmic horror.

This is objectively the correct response.

>>4694280
Lovecraft slowly humping away above you with occasional Rhode Island grunts is probably worse than any of his monsters.

>>4694287
Spit-roasting Plath with an oven. You're pretty cool, anon.

>>4694295
Keeps me nice and warm while my clothes are off.

J.K. Rowling because milf

>>4694314
You could sell the story for a quick buck.

>>4694314
Would you kill her Harry Potter style or make it like a murder mystery so she's remembered for her later work?

i never see anne sexton mentioned in this thread. are you guys a bunch of faggots?

also, patricia highsmith

>>4694396
>killing childrapist
>believing highsmith wouldn't get one over on you and death
moral fag pls go we want to talk necrophilia not milk carton campaigns

>>4694415
shut up

China Mieville.
Didn't have to think twice.
Not gay, btw: femanon. We're like the same age too, so...

>>4694428
you started it faggot. srsly though hnnnng highsmith I would be anything she wanted me to be

Valeria Luiselli or Marisha Pessl, alive today.
Uh....I guess Ingeborg Bachmann? Or Lucia Joyce, she looked like a freak.

Alive today?

>>4694436

>40 year-old female on 4chan

I feel sad for you.

>>4693141
>anyone else

>>4694836
yea, because the 40 year old men that frequent this board are intellectuals and scholars. if you're a woman, you're just pathetic.

>>4694287
I once masturbated to the insert photo in a collection of her poetry after reading 'Every woman loves a fascist'

>>4694857
>Implying those people actually exist

Queck my dad owns Exxon Valdez

>>4694287
She was a pretty.

>>4694852
Oh yeah.

>>4694436
>>4694857
Welcome.

>>4694863
does Gina Rinehart brows /lit/???

>>4694887
i really want to like you because we're both female and i believe there should be some solidarity in this god awful place but you are just terrible

>>4694916
don't be mean to butterfly you sexist ho

>>4694836
Whoops, guess he's my man's age, not mine.
33 is me...
Also fuck you ^_^

>>4694857
No, the forty-year old men are just as pathetic as the women. That being said, I'll probably be here when I'm forty as well.

>>4694916
I might like you or I might really hate your posts, so just out of curiosity, why do you think I'm terrible?

Max Stirner.

>>4694969
>milking a dead man
good form

>>4694857

Naw, 40 year-old men on here are pretty sad too, but almost to be expected. Women are way underrepresented on sites like this, so it feels sadder to me that one should hang out here. I guess what I'm saying is middle-aged men creeping around on websites mostly frequented by people decades younger is a thing, whereas for women it isn't and it makes me wonder what her life must be like for her to come here, and there's something of a sweet melancholy to that.

That said, with how /lit/'s been going recently, anyone on here, regardless of age or sex, is pretty sad. I know for sure that I am.

But I'm glad you called me out on that. I was just making one of those throw-away comments, but you questioning me did help me clarify my thoughts about the matter. So thanks.

>>4693141

>>4693141
Alive.

>>4694977
Lol, so I have no idea what you imagine, but I am the poster you originally replied to, and my reality is that afew times a week, while my kid falls asleep, and my husband practices kung fu, I come check out /lit/ as part of my online leisure time. As an avid reader, I tend to enjoy it here.

>>4695038
Why am I terrible?

>>4695026

only if she died a virgin

>>4694852
Smith strikes me as a bitch. She'd probably lie there and make you do all the work.

I'd go for Anais Nin or Carson McCullers. Both were sexy as hell (in my not so humble opinion) and confirmed freaks and nutjobs (good qualities in a sexual partner).

Also I wonder how long till someone comes along and says some porn star who wrote a memoir?

there are many pornstars and celebrities that have released autobiographies and shit

>>4695106
Dawwww. So cute.

>>4695106
Idk freckled brown girls are cute as hell, and she seems nice enough to me

>>4695134
I agree she's sexy and cute. I typically don't go for anything past light hispanic. But she's pretentious as hell. She probably wouldn't even let you finish after she came (lol like any of us could get a woman off).


>>4695130
Yup she had that adorable awkwardness to her.

Voltairine de Cleyre - I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

As far as contemporary authors, Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a cutie. Though it's nearly impossible to find a picture of her without that creepy smile.

apparently oliva munn wrote a book, so shes an author, and a hotty.. so I pick her.. I bet shes a good bang

ginsberg
burroughs
foucault


im a bugchaser :3

>>4695113
ghostwritten

>>4695208
probably ghostwritten

>>4695170
i really enjoyed language of flowers

>>4694977
the rest of the world isn't you... we have totally different reasons for coming here

>>4695038

I don't really imagine anything specific. It's more like an indeterminate haze of possibilities, a bunch of paths that lead to the same place. And it's not that your life is necessarily sad (though there certainly was that implication in my original post) but rather that for me the very act of thinking about the course of someone's life is sad. There's the passing of time, of course, as well as the gradual reduction of potential as one goes through school and chooses a career, the aging process itself, etc., etc.

And this will probably sound weird and creepy, and I've never told this to anyone before but I'm feeling in a confessional mood and I'm anonymous so fuck it, I get this feeling of sadness of the vast gulf between our lives. That is, I want to be your husband and know you in the closest way another person can know you (given reasonable cultural assumptions such as that your husband is the person who knows you best). That probably sounds sexual, but it's not (or at least sex is only a small part of it); if your husband were here and I had been interacting with him, I would wish to be you for the same reason. It goes further than that, though, because after that I'd like to be everyone in your life, in turn, and see all your facets, through all those eyes, throughout your life. And then finally I'd like to be you, to know your own mind in all those situations with other people as well as in solitude. Repeat this for anyone I've had or might have so much as a minor interaction with, and I guess you could say I want to be everyone in the world. I don't even know what kind of fucked-up solipsism that is, and I'm afraid that I haven't explained it correctly and that I'll never be able to get across this feeling that I have, but there, I've said it, and I suspect you've already left this thread so it's meaningless now.

>>4695086
That wasn't me... I have no opinio on you whatsoever, except for general tripfag hate.
>>4695238
Hm.
Ok.
Maube that's why you like to read: to live vicariously...?

>>4695238
I'm enjoying fully embracing and living each phase of my life: like really immersing myself in motherhood & domesticity right now... so have not yet experienced any sense of loss with time passing...

>>4695218
>language of flowers

It's intense as fuck. I'm afraid she's going to go downhill soon though. Her only other "published" work is some short story that's only online. It's god awful...

Aristotle.

>>4695276
Met her some months ago anon. My teacher asked her for our class & she accepted bc her husband knew my teacher. She told us she'll do a new book soon (I remember that it'll focus on the education system)

>>4695715
>teacher
What are you in 6th grade or something? Anyway I remember hearing somewhere that she's been working on a new book for some time. I'm just afraid she'll start writing books purely for the soap-boxing "let's try to make the world a better place through my charity" bullshit. Every interview I see with her all she talks about is the foster (wallace, lulz) system and promoting her charity. which I have no problem with, but I'm afraid it'll start seeping into her work. We'll see...

>>4694905

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