/lit/ - Literature

Nietzsche

>>6181522
Why?

Alive would be McCarthy dead Cervantes

>>6181518
Stirner of course

Vargas Llosa

Shakespeare, to find out what he was like as a person.

>>6181518
Nietzsche, Henry Miller, or Milton

>tfw Milton clutches to your arm so you can lead him to his seat and after reading him the menu he asks you if you wouldn't mind also reading a few chapters of The Bible aloud

yung leo

Gertrude Stein or Voltaire

maybe Steinbeck, but later I'd feel like I should have picked Shakespeare or Dante

>>6181542

Daddy Salinger

probably like keats or something

>>6181523
I like the man (no homo) what else there's to say?

George R. R. Martin

>>6181567
kek

>>6181567
why are you even alive

>>6181563
>tfw you pick someone cool who died young and they turn out unsurprising and underwhelming

I'd want to be with Shakespeare. We'd pretend to hit on all the girls with bad haircuts and piercings. Plus we'd be drinking tea.

I'd rather get pisspants drunk with Hemingway in a semi-crowded bar.

Anne Frank
don't ask why

Hemingway. I don't even like his work that much, I just think it'd be fun to get in a fist fight with some wimpy coffee shop faggots with Hemingway at my side. I would pay infinite amounts of money to see Ernie knock some limp wristed cappucino drinkers out.

Wilde perhaps, and we'd make fun of the rest of the shitters at the shop.

Marlowe maybe to watch him go batshit, fight three people at once, stab someone, and ultimately take a knife to the eye from some sissy.

Man I just really hate the Starbucks crowd.

anne frank

>>6181994
>>6181937
samethink

>>6181994
>>6181937
>>>/mu/

>>6181994
>>6181937
>>6182016

seaman stains the mountain top

John Green

>>6181518
Jonathan Galassi, the president of FSG.

Wilde if I want to go back there, Hemingway if I want to be banned for life.

>>6181518
Steinbeck so I'm cool like him, smoking and talking about consumerism.

Carson McCullers, first date

Hunter S. Thompson, the pre Fear and Loathing one..

>>6181576
have you even read his poetry?

>>6181542
>implying milton didnt memorize the whole shit

>>6182200
cursorily in class, but not on my own time

I was considering asking the three Brontes how they felt about dying before 30, so

>>6181518
Boris Pasternak or Robert Musil

>>6182203
He'd actually have one of his daughters (only daughter?) read various parts of it to him each morning before he began composing verse.

>>6182204
maybe someone like ts eliot would be boring as shit but Keats or shelley or byron? no way

>>6182212
that sounds cute

>>6182120
oh no, forgot the cool steinbeck pic

Nietzsche, hands down.

I would fucking LOVE to see what that guy was like up close and personal.

Plato or Hegel.

>>6181518
Hume or J.S Mill

I'd gamble with Dostoevsky.

Neil Gaiman. Just to find out if he's really a lucky hack like his books make him look, or if he's actually got something interesting to say.

>>6182637
If you can't tell after reading him books then I'm afraid you're far too stupid to be able to tell just by meeting him IRL.

>>6182641

I'm willing to give people a chance. You can write good books and be a total braindead egomaniac IRL, so why can't the opposite be true?

>>6182648
writers just can't be judged by their character, there are so many psychological factors to deal with that it's not even worth attempting

unless you know a good story about them in college or something

>>6181993
You truly are confused. Both Hemingway and Wilde would be a part of that starbucks crowd, talking about whatever they are working on with their friends and how they could be better., You really need to find a community of like-minded individuals and embrace it whole-heartedly if you ever want to succeed in your endeavors. Sometimes that means hanging around pretensious nwankers who will never write anything great, because they might introduce you to someone who will or is at least brilliant. The average often hang on coattails, why not see where they lead? Those thatrefuse to take part in society are instantly forgotten by it

>>6182653
hemingway and wilde INVENTED the starbucks crowd. especially hemingway, and more credit to him for it

I'd like to smoke a nice joint with Steinbeck before entering the coffeeshop.

>>6181518
i'd love to see Wittgenstein irl. was his speech just as brilliant as his writing?

Heraclitus, to see if any interpretations of his wok even vaguely represent his ideas.

>>6183038

Wittgenstein would, according to Ray Monk's biography, have exhaustively long and focused discussions on philosophy with anybody he thought was intellectually worthy - most of these people being Oxford dons.

Anybody he considered a student he would actively dissuade from pursuing philosophy - he considered it a sham practice - and instead entering something "honest" like a trade. So you'd probably end up with him arguing you should become a welder or a doctor or something and just give up intellectual life.

>>6183182
Sorry, Cambridge, not Oxford.

>>6183182
>Wittgenstein would, according to Ray Monk's biography, have exhaustively long and focused discussions on philosophy with anybody he thought was intellectually worthy - most of these people being Oxford dons.
>Anybody he considered a student he would actively dissuade from pursuing philosophy - he considered it a sham practice - and instead entering something "honest" like a trade. So you'd probably end up with him arguing you should become a welder or a doctor or something and just give up intellectual life.

changed my mind. i guess Russell would be cooler to talk with

Pynchon just to see what he looks like.

>>6183192
I dreamed I was visiting the US and Pynchon sat a row below me at a baseball game

I have no interest in baseball, and I don't care how Pynchon looks like in real life, and I don't want to go to the US

It's the weirdest thing

>>6182260

>What is justice, Anon?

>>6181518
Diogenes. We'd be looking for humans.

>>6183572
>dude sprawls out across the table
>dumps the plate of spaghetti onto his stomach
>and eats with his bare hands
>all while calling out the misgivings of the other diners
dinner with diogenes?

>>6183597
My Dinner with Diogenes. Should be a movie.

This is the gorillianth time we've had this thead, and there is only one right answer.

>>6182653
Wilde maybe, but Hemingway is definitely not the Starbucks crowd. (although they're both revered by that crowd for whatever fucking reason)
There are plenty of writers that didn't partake in society. And the problem with finding a likeminded group to associate with in Starbucks is that those people are hardly ever worth any salt, just a bunch of tumblr-going losers that romanticize being a writer. If you feel belonging in a group of Starbucks "writers" then I feel for you.

>>6183618
I've heard the argument somewhere online that there really isn't an art scene as in bars and whatnot where artists hang out. Because usually artists hate each others guts, according to the guy. Makes sense.

Personally I'm starting to think if you want to be writer don't call yourself as such, just be one. If you do write people probably will start calling you a writer if you want it or not. If you have to remind them what you are, well. Bad news I guess.

>>6183611
Sounds fantastic

>>6181518
Deleuze obvs.

We'd chat in French about immanent materialism, the BwO of capitalism, only to disagree on his point about the purpose of desiring production bringing out novel forms of embodied vitality rather than cosmic schizophrenia death

>>TFW he would hate me at first, but wed meet up again on the other side

Always surprised that Kafka is so rarely mentioned in such threads.

>>6184486
Probably because Kafka gives off the impression of being autistic and socially awkward, though I've read he was actually rather socially aware and enjoyable.

C.S Lewis or Camus

Arthur Ransome

>>6181518
Sylvia Plath.

Bertrand Russell.

>>6183373
A spook, m8.

>>6183635

"artists" who try to hang out are the worst most leech teir lazy fucks.

If an artist wants to hang out with you while you create he basically thinks he could be your idea guy and take half the credit.
Sitting down to mutually edit is a different story, but "hanging out" is pure cancer.

Is there any reason for anybody that doesn't live in or aspire to live in a communist country to read Marx?

>>6186710
>communist
>country
You're doing it wrong, white boy.

>>6186710
gimmy a sec. trying to decode that fucking sentence.

Yea, you could learn it to see if you give a fuck about it or not. Also gives some insight into the foundation for certain world powers today. Otherwise no, you will probably just lol at leftist movement and how fragmentary they have become with special interests.

Joyce.

I'm Irish so we'd go on the piss afterwards through Dublin, him spouting uninteligeble nonesense the whole time while I pretend I get what he's saying.
Becket would probably be trailing along behind trying to make sure we don't fuck anything up, or not, I don't know what sort of guy he was or would be when drinking.

Proust.
Socially aware enough to keep a conversation - broken enough to make it interesting.

Timothy Leary, because he's probably carrying.

>>6182637
Or you know... Just follow him on social media.