/lit/ - Literature

Hunter S Thompson

>>6138254
Taolin

>>6138254
Platon.

John of Patmos so I know if he was eating any shrooms or not.

>>6138254
Lord Byron :^)

I'd love to spend time with Nazım Hikmet.

>>6138254
George Gordon Noell Lord Byron
He had a pet bear and reportedly fucked over 200 women at his Venice estate alone.

Him or Walter Raleigh. Raleigh seemed like a badass kinda guy.

Marquis de Sade :)

wittgenstein takes the 'abuse me' cake

>>6138254
Oscar would be horrible to hang with. He's like Voltaire, one of those people who are smart so they think that gives them the right to fuck with everyone else. You can call it wit, but really it's just venom. If you lived in his time, he'd have probably humiliated you so bad you'd have to run cry to your mom by the end of the evening

>>6138359

>>6138254
You couldn't chat with Oscar. He wouldn't stop trying to shove wity remarks and pleb-tier aphorisms down your throat.

For some real discussion about the world, I'd go with Balzac.

Jesus
oh wait

Aristotle

>>6138385

r/ing the 'how to be witty like oscar wilde' image

>>6138254
That's actually a really hard question...

I think I'd want to meet Chaucer.

>>6138403
that image is incredibly stupid

dont be an idiot and actually listen to it

>>6138385
>discussion about the world
>picks Balzac
Nah.

>>6138254
Yeats.

Roberto Bolaño.

>>6138418

i kinda liked the ending where it says 'shit son read a book' regarding oscar wilde being gay

Poe. As a fellow barely functioning alcoholic, I'd have loved to listen to his ramblings all night long.

>>6138446
He wasn't really gay you know. He was just shock value gay.

This guy over here.

>>6138468
And that's why he went to jail over it? Shock value?

i think a lot of you guys wlll be severely disappointed when it turns our your choice is socially awkward and shy, and they put all of their feelings into words.

also, how are you monolingual fucks going to converse with anyone other than english speaking people?

idiots

>>6138508
>it was his choice to go to jail

Voltaire, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, George Orwell and Gabo, to name five

>>6138519
>you can't enjoy hypotheticals
>hypotheticals being out my autism

>>6138529
hypothetical idiocy

>>6138519
How could I even meet someone that I can't understand their language? That would be awful. I mean, it'd be cool to meet Voltaire but I wouldn't actually be able to talk to him because I can't speak French well enough.

>>6138519
>implying there are any non-english speakers worth conversing with

>>6138525
It was serious and real enough to put him in jail. He sucked cocks, man, and loved it too. Get over it, a lot of people like sucking cocks.

>>6138508
Well, that was probably because he was who he was. I tell you, the man was probably never happier as during the Reading jeer. Some are like that.

>>6138533
Autist

>>6138547
nice buzzword chap

>>6138552
Control your autism.
>>>/sci/

>>6138570
i am now only replying to let you know having the last post in an attempt to undermine me will not work

>>6138572
>this reply
Pure autistic ideology

>>6138415
This fat bastard would probably a blast to hang with

I'd sit on the porch and drink mint juleps with Faulkner.

Enjoy a nice corncob pipe

>>6138576
That guy was right, it didn't work.

>>6138615
hi that guy

Honestly i would love to chill with Pynchon. I can imagine that he would be overall histerically hilarious to be around.
Or maybe i would go pick up greek teens with Byron.

>>6138254
Vonnegut

Pynchon, only so I could kill him before he inflicts more of his drivel on the world.

>>6138655

Implying he wouldnt get all the pussy and you'd be left behind

>>6138254
I would have gay sex with Mishima.

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>>6138415
Chaucer would be the fucking bomb. That motherfucker was funny as shit and you just know he'd drink like a fish

Hesse

younger Kerouac would be fun. he would have been a /lit/izen had he been alive at the correct moment

Byron, duh

William Shakespeare

Clever and funny, and a genuine lover of the English language. Probably has some great stories about putting on his plays.

Plus I could ask him if he really played the Ghost in Hamlet.

>>6138864

My jolly African-American.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, duh.

>>6138254
I would imagine he would be nowhere near as interesting in person. For every quip of his that gets thrown around today, there must have been hundreds that fell flat.

>>6138366 suggests he would tear you to pieces, but I would sooner guess that he would try way to hard to impress, turning everything said into some kind of joke to the point where you finally see through his bullshit and start wishing he would just fuck off.

George Orwell. He seems to have had a very friendly, down-to-earth feel, but he also was remarkably intelligent. And the political alignment is similar.

>>6138254
>pic of Snape in his 20's

>>6138795
I would hate his war mongering guts tbh

>Hi, I'm David Foster Wallace. Is that right? Does that make any sense?
>The perspiration starts.
>Are you going to remember this conversation? Please don't.

Define writer you shitbird.

Diogenes of course if writer means anyone who has written anything.

If the writer can be unknown, then the author of the Voynich manuscript.

>>6138366
A french writer that knew him said that everyone who knew Wilde through his books missed a lot. Like 9/10 of his persona

>>6139446
There's an endless amount of retarded faces DFW makes in that interview.

Chilling would be pretty great. Dont deny it

>>6138262
This right here. One night with him in his prime would change any man.

I'd go whaling with Melville. Shit would be cash and I could tell him how praised his book became.

>>6139446
Just started to read infinite jest. Worth it?

I'd want to meet BEE in a Soho nightclub; we'd go to the bathroom and do lines of coke together; we'd then proceed to go to his apartment afterwards and have bareback faggot sex; wake up together in bed and have him recite literature to me.

>inb4 faggot

>>6139775

I'm 500 words in.

In short ,yes. It's a little confusing at times but you're meant to be confused sometimes. Just bear with it and don't look for an coherence (Not that there isn't plenty) just try to enjoy each scene alone, although it does build a huge picture all together.

>>6138254
You know, I kind of wonder what it would be like to meet George Bernard Shaw.

Sylvia Plath. Once I taught her the joys of becoming a cum pig, any thought of suicide would be gone from her pretty little head.

Charles fucking Bukowski.

>>6139830
lol pleb

hack writer

>>6139830
Why? Why would you ever willingly spend time with a presumably smelly, old alcoholic mediocre man? You can already do this in real life. Visit a homeless shelter.

>>6138254

Cormac McCarthy seems like a pretty cool motherfucker

>>6138254

maybe Dostoevsky, as long as he doesn't have a seizure

>>6138254
Mario Benedetti, I would chat with him about all them feels.

Hemingway, just so I could fight him.

I would like to rape Henry David Thoreau.

David Foster Wallace

tao lin. i think we'd actually get along pretty gud plus i could buy some oxys maybe

>>6138333
this

also Antonin Artaud to get free

>>6141798
>use of lowercase throughout
>casual mention of drug use

Fuck off retard

>>6139712
>>6141788
>>6138864
>>6138795

these

>>6141777
>implying your beta bitch ass sitting alone behind a computer could, for even a moment, even touch Thoreau.

He would slit your throat and leave you in the woods

>>6141820
purchase, not use

>you will never drop acid with Ernst Junger

Mark Twain.

>>6138254
Adolf Hitler

>not choosing to chill with Homer over a cup of wine.
Fucking plebs.

>>6143307
I don't speak ancient Greek.

>>6138366
Why are you making Wilde into a /lit snarkass ? Being ironic or writing witticism isn't tantamount to being an imageboard usr of "irony" which in most case simply means deliberately being a cunt. From all account we have Wilde was pretty charming (and Voltaire, although he had his bad moments, seemed to be mostly a fun guy).


I think 4chan use has seriously deformed your expectations of what a smart and quick-witted person can be like in conversation.

>>6143326
>hasn't read the Greeks in the original Greek.
You don't even belong here.

Easy choice.

I don't suppose I could bring along a friend, huh?

>>6138703
He so would to. Women can't resist those Bugs Bunny teeth.

>>6139528
>Define writer you shitbird.
Shit, you won the meme!!

thomas bernhard, easily.

>>6138254
Steven Brust. Maybe he'd make me some klava.

>>6139806
With you on that one. I Would probably start arguing and get rekt as fuck.

Personaly i think Montaigne would be a blast.

>>6138366
Are you kidding?
Oscar was always nice and funny but never pushy. He was surrounded by people who liked being with me specifically because he attracted people but didn't show off.

>>6143244
TL;DR

He wasn't even the brains of the operation.

Do you even speak german?

>>6144093
>implying
He was the face of the operation, that's what's important.Jewish pleb.

i honestly wouldn't to hang out with any author that i've actually read.

it feels like it would be really really awkward. through their works, i've seem that at a level of intimacy and vulnerability that is achieved with almost no one else (except perhaps one's spouse or best friend), and comparatively they'd have no idea who i was.

there's something eerie about that imbalance, like a stalker coming face to face with the target of their infatuation. i'd rather be thrown together with a complete stranger.

>>6138254
Rimbaud in in his 30s
Boris Pasternak
Herman Melville in the late 1860's
John Keats
Goethe in his middle age

>>6144367
>Rimbaud in in his 30s

When he was denied himself any creativity and rebelliousness?

>>6144374
>denied creativity
citation needed

>denied rebelliousness
>implying that's bad

Murakami.

There was a NYT Magazine article a few years ago (I think when 1Q84 came out) in which the writer went running with Murakami, chilled with him in his office, rode around Tokyo with him in his car. Sounds pretty stellar.

>>6144381
>citation needed

Rimbaud by Graham Robb
Actually pretty much any biography

He stopped writing poetry and anything creative well before his 30s, the only thing he wrote post 19-21 were documents about his businesses

>>6144146
Gee, you'd think if you wanted to *chat* with someone, you'd care for the voice of the operation.

And if you wanted to *chill* with someone, Goering was really up for that.

I mean, of course, that's if you care that much about operation hijack-Strasser's-movement-and-run-it-into-the-ground in the first place.

>>6144429
and letters*

>>6144429
>implying you must write things(and keep/publish them) to be creative

someone that creative in youth simply does not stop being extremely intelligent and creative

>>6144439
He was obviously still extremely intelligent, but he legitimately sought to lose his creativity, because he felt it was what caused his life to turn to shit.

This is a very loose paraphrase, because I don't know the exact page and I cannot be bothered going through 600+ pages, but when he was asked about his poetry when he was in his thirties he said "oh, that silly thing, I don't give that any thought."

>>6139712
Hemingway would be fun to go on a safari with, but only if you like to compete–if you didn't, and hunted with Hemingway, I think you'd have a really bad time.

>>6144447
i understand he didn't produce poetry or maybe even art for that matter but that is not equal to him lacking/losing his creativity, see what I mean? I realize I may be using a different and less literal definition of creativity than you but fuck it

it is possible that you are correct but I simply can't imagine him not being creative, his imagination was too great for that it seems to me

it has been an interesting talk, thanks

Kolsti, no doubt

>>6144483
He channeled all his frustrations and (possibly) his creativity into business. Because for him, business was a way to produce results and success, unlike poetry and art, which for him produced only failure and disillusionment.

If you read his letters he sent to his mother and sister about his new environment in Africa, it is very simple and pretty much devoid of any creativity. The descriptions of landscapes and people and towns are straight to the point, boring and only interesting to those with a genuine interest in the environment.

>>6144374
Joining this conversation. If anything that is all the more reason to talk to him. It is a question that deserves a better answer or at least more thorough answer than what we have. And who knows? Maybe it would be possible to convince him otherwise.

>>6144510
I admit his post-writing career is quite vague, but you guys should read Rimbaud by Graham Robb, it is an excellent biography.

>>6144520

Read Disaster Was My God instead

>>6144582
I've read it, it's not as good by any stretch.

>>6144585

You have terrible taste then because that book is fantastic

>>6144613
I didn't say it was bad.

>>6138254
Borges, the guy had basically read everything in existence and his ideas are very interesting.