/lit/ - Literature

I am not of jewish lineage so the fuher is of no threat to me

>>5814279
he's dead, so i suppose i'll be fine if i can leave before the rot sets in

>>5814297
he killed faggots too

>>5814279
Uh...could you get back to telling me about how you survived for weeks on end in a Lovecraftian post-Apocalypse and a little less about your foot fetish?

this kid keeps moping around and complaining to me about stuff

I was reading the novel Chimera by John Barth which features the author himself as a character, and he's the last one I came across. He seems like an alright guy, so I think I'd be fine.

>>5814279
Some guy saying the icelandic sagas aren't a relevant historical source.
He would probably just be confused as to why he's alive and in my room.

>>5814279
>Faust
Meh.

The biologist from this book. I'm not sure if I'm fucked yet since I haven't finished the series. I think I might be fucked. Starting the second book tonight.

>>5814279
Various Dickens characters.

I haven't enough tea for these people. I am screwed.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, tbh I hope I'm too old/unattractive

I was reading DFW's copy of Suttree at the Harry Ransom center at UT, so that would be Harrogate. I would go pick up some watermelons and we'd have a party.

>>5814406
No footnotes to your post? How are we supposed to follow?

>>5814406
I... I'M reading Suttree! Not dfws version but still...

Anyway, title character would prob just look around, shrug, and leave.

>>5814279
Henry David Thoreau. I think he'd be confused by the technology and would put me down for owning so much shit. Other than that it would be pretty cool

>>5814279
The Prince from Bernhard's Gargoyles.
I guess he'll monologue me to death.

Kant, could be worse. Guy is 5 feet tall and catagorically impelled to not be a total asshole.

I think we'd be friends and go on adventures trying to get him to have a synthetic a posterori knowledge of a woman.

aeschylus' prometeus

not sure if my room has enough place for him and the rock he is chained to

still he is a chill person and may predict me something good (i ask him not to predict bad)

>gregor samsa
I'm going to need a fucking sword to kill this bug

>>5814279
Oh great, it's Tao Lin self-insert Paul. I'm going to be autismed to death.

John Constantine.
Maybe I'll be very well fucked.
Probably should get out of here, though.

Peter Wiggins tries to control the world through the use of imageboards and forums. Ultimately failing due to being such a faggot.

An anonymous person from a WH Auden poem.

This is a joy, I think.

>>5814279
>Basho

I guess we'd go for a hike, or something?

>>5814329
Holy shit, that was impressive.

Flem Snopes... soooo... not the worst thing?

>>5814279
Vice President Dick Cheney

Fucking Maldoror, I guess I'm fucked.
Has anyone else read this? Did he actually fuck a shark or did I just interpret the text wrong?

. . . . Barquentine?

Ugh, Now I have to explain to my mother why there's an angry smelly one-legged septugenarian having a fit about breach of protocol in my study at Five AM.

Hooray!

fuckin' Fermina Daza?

lol

>>5814279
Red from A Roadside Picnic
We gun drink vodka

>>>/v/

>>5814406
>Harry Ransom center at UT
Are regular students allowed to come in and read the books in there?
How so?

>>5814848
>BOOKS GO ON THE VIDEO GAME BOARD
>ALSO ICE CREAM GO IN MY EAR

>>5814854
Shit cancerous threads go on /v/

>>5814329
Nice one

Hal Incandenza, Orin, or the Therapist.

Two out of three ain't bad.

>>5814857
Stop using the word cancer in a problematic way.

I've gone back about ten characters from multiple books I'm reading and every one of them has been a fairly well-adjusted white person who I would probably just help to the train station then wave away. Someone get me off this realist ride.

>>5814853
Not that guy, but it's open to the public. You just have to go in make an account, watch a training video and you're good.

The place is really strict about stuff though, like you have to use yellow paper and pencil, you have to get your laptop checked if you're bringing it in and out to make sure you're not smuggling documents out, no food and drinks etc. It's a really cool place though and would check it out if you get the chance. I think they just acquired a bunch of Gabbo's works.

>>5814708
Nah, just an apple.

>>5814844
Nah, man. He brought you with him into that room for a reason. I'm so sorry.

>>5814279
It's okay by me. According to "Song of Myself", Whitman's "me, myself, I, soul" or whatever the fuck he is was with me all along. I just hope his myself doesn't try to molest me; I like my sternum the way it is, without a spirit's tongue piercing it.

>>5814279

I would just have to listen to a loner kid complain about his absent mother

>>5814907
Nice
Anything I should look for for my first time?

>Bret Easton Ellis

He'd probably criticize my shabby apartment and hassle me for cocaine.

>>5814279
Look's like I'll be hosting a trial with 8 pimped out pirates +1 who is on the stands bout to go to the gallows, Lionel Hutz, some country bumpkins that have been hired as witnesses, and 4 older civic minded citizens.

Candide. Terrible things happen abruptly, and then the story moves on, and we don't dwell on it. Maybe pirates show up and rape us, but some thing worse will likely surpass it in a few hours. Such is the best of all possible worlds

>>5814279
zarathustra from thus spoke zarathustra
hell yeah, time to become ubersmensch

>>5815295
>he read thus spoke zarathustra

> Ernst Jünger
Very okay with this

>>5814387

that guy sounds like an idiot

John Galt


I hope he makes love to me!

>>5815300
>Not having read Nietzsche
>Shaming someone for having read Nietzsche
>Bragging about one's ignorance
Jesus fucking Christ how pleb can you get?

>Frieda from The Castle

Fucked indeed

>>5814279
Not fucked at all. A nice chat with Zarathustra

>>5815358
Well I guess I'm not the only one
>>5815295

>>5814819
Yes, he did fuck that shark

>>5815395
woah

>>5815395
Fuck this book is weird.
Man, I can't imagine how the general public would have reacted to this book when it first came out in the 1860s, seeing as how God is literally shat on.

Flynne from the Perepheral sounds like a pretty cool person. We could play video games I guess.

Utterly fucked.

>>5815410
They did not react. Sold almost nothing. But Rimbaud and his friends fuckign loved it. And then later it became the holy text of the surrealists.

>>5814279
I'm happy as fuck.
Belloc surely is a nice buddy. Would love to talk about Catholicism and Europe with him

Either Doc from Inherent Vice, in which case we gun smoke gud, or Negarestani psycho narrators who're going to do acid, scream at me for having a car and then collapse crying numbers and weird words.

Robert Langdon, so I'm sure I'll be pulled into some sort of crazy shenanigans involving ancient symbolism and cults

>>5814279
>Shevek from The Dispossessed
Talking about marxism with a hairy anarchist alien is exactly my kind of thing.

>>5814636
Lelled

Feels good man.

>>5814636
>tfw no deontologically inclined gnome to travel with

I bet he had a funny voice as well.

>>5814279
Milton's Satan

I really have no idea what he'd do, I'm just a random man, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't give a shit, anyone?

Puck from puck of pooks hill.

Whatever the fuck I'm in store for it'll be cool.

>>5814279
Giacomo Leopardi. Hello Giacomo, I'm sorry you have to live more time.

>Socrates
Could be worse, he'll probably just make me admit that I'm a complete moron and explain to me how his inner God compels him to be attracted to hairless young boys.

Severian the Torturer

I think he would be nice.

Marcus Aurelius

Shit would be awesome

>tfw can't remember what book I read last

>>5815292
Sucks to be you.

Walter from Homo Faber. I'd talk about Maxwell's Demon with him.

>>5815337
I know.
Byock tried to justify him and his school of thought (even though he opposes this view) with some story about how in the first half of the XX century icelandic intellectuals were strongly nationalistic and they considered the sagas to be literature, which apparently can't be in the scope of historians. What he meant is that the sagas are a beatiful work of art and icelanders should be proud and treasure them but they can't be historical sources because they're art.
I'd cite verbatim but the book I'm reading is a translation.

He never sleeps. He says he will never die.

I'm utterly fucked.

John Paul Keller from Lawrence Block's Hit Man. Either we're about to get something to eat, take my dog for a walk, or he's going to kill me when I least expect it.

>>5816464
I was thinking about reading this. How is it?

Heathcliff will probably break my ribs and my face in no time, even if i'm pretty big myself. The fag's a lunatic.

>>5816643
Who?

doc sportello. guess it's time to light up, drop acid, and solve mysteries

>>5816667
I really liked the writing style and to discover the different world views of the characters. I'd recommend it, it's interesting.

>>5816792
If you don't know, you shouldn't be on /lit/.

>>5815347
>being a f e d o r a
lmao

>>5816895
>hurrr u havent read obscure book so u no belonghere
Fuck off.

the Old Grey Fellow from The Poor Mouth … probably means i'm about to have any pigs in the room stolen.

But there are no pigs, so who knows …

>>5816933
>obscure
As if

>>5816933
I have only read one book by Mr McCarthy that is not the one in question and I still think you'd have to be retarded to have not osmosed details like that about The Judge. Are you new? Stop posting. Lyrk myre.

>>5816964
lmfao so that guy was telling someone to get out for not reading a Cormac McCarthy book?

>>5816970
No he was telling you to get out for being a dumbass and/or being new and posting. Lurk more.

american psycho :(

>>5816964
haha u spoonfed me i win
i can act like a le oldfag now

>>5816996
Hope you have a nice wardrobe and/or record collection.

>>5817002
Wow man you sure got me hahaha wow you're actually an annoying pointless retard like xD that affects me so much I'm totally mad and trolled now! This massive whopping two sentences obviously indicates me frothing, uncontrollable rage as a 20 second shitpost is clearly a monumental dedication of my energy.

>>5817018
trolled

I've been reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus, so I guess The Atomic Fact is now in the room with me. Idk what it looks our acts like or how to recognize it.

>>5817018
*screaming, crying and drooling, face is red and chin is all wrinkled up* Im not mad.

>>5814279
>Pierre La Mure's Moulin Rouge

Going to see some rench whores along Henri Tolousse Lautrec seems fun.

I was reading "the man in the high castle", well, I think it was mr Tagomi, meh, some business guy, talks like this, not important, should change book.

>>5815165
Well you kind of have to have an idea of what you want to look at before you go in. It's a research library and so there isn't really a room to just browse in and look around. In their museum section they do have one of the Gutenburg bibles always on display that anyone can look at and they have first photograph as well.

I am so fucked... literally and then figuratively from what she did to the last guy. So I won't die a virgin, that's better than nothing... right?

Well the last character I read in a book was Sherlock Holmes. I can't tell if that's helpful or not. For all I know he's investigating me.

Old Caulfield. I wonder if he's thinking I'm a bore. Or a phony. Or yellow.

>>5816189
>I really have no idea what he'd do, I'm just a random man, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't give a shit, anyone?
He'd probably try and pressure you into sinning.

>>5814279
Socrates. I'll manage.

Tea-smoking mexican pimp from Naked lunch. Guy is a womanizing asshole and he'd totally ignore me since I'm not a woman. I hope he doesn't stay long.

>>5815480
hahahaha good luck with that buddy

Aureliano Babilonia - One hundred years of solitude

Not so much

>Cipolla from Thomas Mann's Mario and the Magician

pls no
I don't want to be tricked into kissing a gross hypnotist Mussolini

>>5821794
me too, and if he's in a room with you therefore i am in the same room

let's fuck him up and leave this shitty island

>>5814279
Humbert.
Well I'm a 20 year old bearded (neck shaved) guy so I should either bore him to death of have a nice conversation about aesthetics of writing.

related note, is this movie any good?

would usually ignore, but im liking how vronsky looks and might be tempted to give it a shot

Oddly enough, it'll be like having a clone next to me.

Stilgar. He'll probably kill me for my water, or take my boyman, ug.

Pip is disappointed in how awfully common I am.

>>5822220
Why are Jap covers invariably the best?

Wilson-Harris. If by fucked you mean I'm gonna have a pleasant evening, then I'm pretty fucked.

>>5814279

>Raskolnikov

Wow, I dont even know how to interpret that.

i would offer her some weed

Joelle from Infinite Jest.I kinda just just got to this part so I don't know her that well. Someone else lemme know what Im dealing with

>>5822247
Unless you are a minimalist, then they are a nightmare

>Derrida

fuck yes, I've been waiting to set some shit straight with that nigga

>>5823210

in what book is derrida a character?

>Flowers For Algernon
>Charlie's mom when his dad is holding her back from attacking the teacher.
So, a little fucked, but she seems like she might be a reasonable person otherwise

>>5823217

Every book. Nothing is outside the text.

ready to get my soul destroyed and to kill myself to make way for the overman.

>Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
>Toru Okada

Not very, we'd have spaghetti.

>>5822966
Don't look at her face.

> Cuchulainn

I'm fucked. I'm so fucked.

polyphemus

>>5822209
A hot underage clone who you can have sex with, though.

>>5814829
Post some cute pictures of Alice!

>>5814297

Aren't you forgetting about homosexuals, communists and slavs?

>Etgar from Lolito
Well I've got to find out how to get him back to England from fucking Arkansas

>>5824925
You're forgetting Roma/gypsies.

I will be discussing poetics with bp Nichol and praying he doesn't mention his mother. Not very fucked. Might get bored, . . unless we have either alcohol or a psychotherapist around.

>>5814297
>he believes in the holohaux

>>5824992
it's literally more believable than the moon landings

Mr. Golyadkin, I'd probably just listen to the guy moan while he tries to figure me out, maybe he'll buy me a drink for being nice to him.

>>5825059

Good book. Better than Notes from the Underground.

>>5814279
Female Orlando, right at the part where she's horny. So pretty fucked.

>>5822209
>>5824890
>you will never be Tomoko
>you will never be a high school slut

An effete, blind, gay, Jewish lawyer. He's sorta witty. So not fucked, probably just chuckling and drinking coffee.

>>5825188
>So not fucked
or are you, gently

>>5817089
then shut the fuck up, faggot, jesus

Can't say. The last sentence I read was the protganist and his companion turning around to meet him. He is a monk so I'm inclined to think I'm ok, but there is something strange going on at this abbey...

>Princess Mayra from War and Peace

ummm

oh my

>>5825876
where can I download this?

Detective Dewey from In Cold Blood. So I'm safe.

>>5825110
What book?

>>5814279
>>5814829
>>5822209
manchildren

>>5825902
I haven't found a digital copy anywhere, unfortunately. Just picked it up for like $8 in an airport bookstore. If you do find it somewhere, I'd recommend it. It's a pretty good analysis of the islamic state as not just any old terrorist group, but as more of a shell-state with its own armed wing and internal infrastructure, like the Taliban or PLO

Honda/Kiyoaki from Spring Snow
I think im ok

>>5814405
Nobody is too old/unattractive for the Baron.

Yvars the barrel worker doesn't seem particularly threatening, but I doubt we'd have much in common.

noice thread, i give you a bump

>>5814279
Dharma Bums- Japhy
Not fucked at all; but hope he doesnt talk too much.

Hopefully she isn't naked, but I don't own any dogs any how.

>>5825927
Orlando, surprisingly. By Woolf.

>>5822418
I'm reading crime and punishment too. I'm now sitting with Svidrigailov just after he fucking shot himself . It stinks.

i dont read fantasy or sci fi bullshit so why would that fuck me

Cool, I could really use somebody to talk to right now.

Uh...hey Hitler...would you like some...uhh....coffee?

I would rather shoot myself in the face. Can I hang out with Tom or Ma instead of Rose of Sharon? That whiny fucking bitch

>>5823217
House of Leaves, IIRC. I believe Karen interviews him.

>Maldoror
Pretty fucked.

>>5814329

>>5814279
>Socrates

He might try to buttrape me but I can probably take him in a fight.

i'd love to hangout with doc sportello

>Oedipa Maas
Hot lesbian sex I would hope.

>>5829067


>He might try to buttrape me but I can probably take him in a fight

You're kidding right? Socrates would kick your ass.

>>5829067
>I can probably take him in a fight.
>some underweight fucboi thinking he can take on a stonecutter ex-soldier
lmao

>>5824833
Just break out the wine

Gottfried.

I'm not a homosexual sadist, so I don't feel much of anything.

>>5824833
Give him some wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkJxISjWBUo#t=8m5s

>>5829923
Those are some big sheep.

Josef K. I think he's more fucked than me.

>>5814363
pls tell me about this book.

>>5814279
>Dante's
I imagine we would have a delightful conversation. Dantes' would never harm me.

shit

The last thing I read with a person in it was a textbook passage about Henry Kissinger.

I'd ask him about his career, I guess.

>>5824995
Oh boy, here we go! :^)

Hitler...

>>5814297
>>5827939
>>5832415
>not turning him into all the pissed off kikes in schlomoland for goyrillions of shekels
you could even shave off his hair and take his clothes and sell them to stormfags

a certain comrade bronstein.

20s model so he'd definitely be carrying, also high on mashed up polish children.

>>5814279
Pretty sure it's no. 137 from Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff
I have no idea how that would go down

>>5832506
Lewd

>Yossarian
Dude's a crazy motherfucker, so I'm pretty safe.

Gregor Samsa.

The Narrator from this. I'm okay with that.

i hope this includes non-fiction

because then it would be Dave Grohl and that would be super cool

if it's fiction only, it's the judge from Blood Meridian and i would be totally fucked. literally probably.

>>5814279
>Nobby, Colon and Carrot
Would go on walks shouting it's Twelve O'clock and All's Well.