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6220569 No.6220569 [Reply] [Original]

Who will be the champion of the /lit/ Hunger Games?

Authors, memes, and talentless hacks handpicked from across the eras (however, primarily from the 19th to 20th centuries) will duke it out in a battle for survival invented by a YA science fiction writer.

Will your favorite author win? No

>> No.6220576

>no stirner
dropped

>> No.6220582

Betting on an epic final battle between Dante and Burroughs (Hell-walking motherfucker and a guy who did heroin for longer than any of us has been alive, and still lived to old age? They just can't die in the game), with a sad prelude between Dante and a dying Vergil.

>> No.6220590
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>>6220569
>David Foster Wallace
>Alive

>> No.6220597

>>6220569
>Implying anyone will find Pynchon

>> No.6220603
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6220603

And so it begins...

>> No.6220618

My money's on Burroughs; he has killed before accidents totally count.

And in life he was /k/ as fuck.

Except for safety

>> No.6220620

>>6220603
Pinecone is dead? YOU CAN'T KILL THAT WHICH HAS NO FACE

>> No.6220626

>>6220603

Burroughs gonna smoke that rope mang

>> No.6220628

>>6220603
poor dante, imagine being stuck with joyce and proust, they'd be fucking insufferable together. after 5 minutes you wouldnt understand a single word they were saying

>> No.6220630

>>6220569
i'm pulling for proust but
>no cervantes
the man lost a hand in battle and lived years as a slave and then in prison. he was more a survivor than anyone else there.

>> No.6220637

>>6220628
On the plus side, they'd fellate the shit out of him

>> No.6220638

>>6220603
>Kerouac pretends to know shit about zen archery not realizing he a middle class catholic boy
>Ralph Ellison stabs him with the trident
>Camus just sits, looking at nothing and pondering suicide

>> No.6220639

>>6220626
Nah, he's gonna use it to recreate the erotic hanging from Naked Lunch.

Then score some junk, somehow.

>> No.6220640
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>>6220603
The First Day

>> No.6220650

>>6220640
Holy omnicide Batman

>> No.6220652

>>6220640
>William Burroughs collects fruit from a tree
>fruit
>from a tree
you aint following no one will

>> No.6220656

>>6220639

He'll probably just cut it up.

>> No.6220661

>>6220640
>Mary Shelley attempts to clim a tree, but falls to her death

what expect from a woman?

>> No.6220662

>>6220640
Dostoevski's got this. Channelling his inner raskolnikov

>> No.6220664

>>6220656
*wheeze of amusement"

>> No.6220668

>>6220652
>>William Burroughs collects fruit from a tree

And then Mary Shelley mysteriously dies in a "tree-related incident"?

Old Bill Lee was picking him some apples, I reckon, and Mary was up for the famous William Tell Routine.

>> No.6220669

>>6220640
Two Shelleys down?

Bummer.

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>>6220640
Pour one out for your fallen niggas

>> No.6220675

>>6220668
I choose to support this narrative, as it amuses me.

>> No.6220678
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>>6220670
>Pynchon dead
We'll never forget you Tommy
>a kazoo player starts playing the Last Post

>> No.6220679

>>6220603
>orwell gathers food
>>6220640
>orwell constructs a shack
[Happening intensifies]

>> No.6220694

>>6220679
Stop him!

He's trying to create a dystopia in this dystopia!

>> No.6220695
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>>6220670
Night of the First Day

>> No.6220701

>>6220640

>Milton injures himself.

Maybe this is how he goes blind?

>> No.6220702

>>6220695
>Hughes refuses to kill Virgil
>now they're working together
>you will never be this close with anyone who has good taste in /lit/-related content

>> No.6220705

>>6220695

>burroughs is shacked up with DFW

I hope he eats him

I don't know anything at all about the Hunger Games.

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>>6220695
>Aldous Huxley and William Faulkner huddle for warmth.
i never knew i wanted this

>> No.6220715

>>6220705

Neither do we.

>> No.6220716

>>6220705
It's the western equivalent of Battle Royal, if you're more familiar than that.
Basically, an oppressive central government keeps it's territories the districts in line by forcing them to send two children - randomly selected - to die in gladiatorial games that air on national television. Only one survivor is allowed.

There's some stuff about how it became more of a sporting event, where the children could get sponsors who would give them things like medicine or armor during the game.

It's not a very good book, but it hit the right points for a successful YA publication.

>> No.6220718

>>6220705
Me neither buddy, me neither.

>> No.6220719
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>>6220695
The Second Day

>Homer discovers a cave
>Mfw I almost gave Homer's spot to Plato

>> No.6220726

>>6220719
>thirst
>not withdrawl

>> No.6220729

>>6220628
>projecting your own intellectual shortcomings onto dante

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>>6220719

What kind of arbitrary bullshit is "dies of thirst"?

This is a fucking gyp m8. It's the hunger games, not the fucking thirsty games.

I demand to speak to your supervisor, this is an outrage.

>> No.6220732

>>6220719
>Burroughs dies of thirst
kek, thirst of what? :^)

>> No.6220734

>>6220719
>William "The Sound and The Fury" Faulkner scares away Orwell

>> No.6220735

>>6220719
>Russian strong
>black on black crime that must have been an interesting conversation
>DFW dies

All the world is in order.

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>>6220719
R.I.P.

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>>6220719

>Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky working together

>> No.6220750

>>6220732
Boipucci

>> No.6220752

>>6220747

I smell an odd couple esque sitcom.

>Tolstoy spends all day talking about why farming and Christianity is great, Dosto just shoots down all of his opinions and expresses his existentialist views on religion.

>> No.6220753
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>>6220740
Night of the Second Day

>> No.6220755

dear god please let melville live

mfw put a lot of stock into this

>> No.6220776
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>>6220753
The Third Day

>>6220755
Your prayers are answered

>> No.6220782

>>6220776

Would be kind of ironic if Joyce spears Melville to death.

>> No.6220785

>>6220776
Dante's gonna explore himself right into hell again

>> No.6220787
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>>6220776
Mourn the fallen

>> No.6220790

>>6220776

>Milton and Tosltoy try to commit suicide
>Fail
>This means they die

what the fuck is going on lads?

>> No.6220796

Calling it now, Kerouac and Camus are gonna bite it next.

>> No.6220797

>>6220790
Perhaps they were holding themselves hostage to try and disrupt the game.

. . . . or something.

>> No.6220800
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>>6220776
Night of the Third Day

>Aldous "Big Dick Butcher from The Brave New World" Huxley

>> No.6220804

>>6220787
Proust AND Camus!?

Bonne nuit, mon princes douces :(

>> No.6220805
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>>6220776
>you will never tell ghost stores in iambic pentameter at a campfire with patricians
All is pain.

>> No.6220813

>>6220800

>aiming a land mine
>black people.

>> No.6220820

>>6220800
Huxley alpha confirmed

>> No.6220823
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>>6220800
The Fourth Day

>> No.6220827

>>6220800
you mean to tell me that huxley outlived both joyce and melville

i'm disappointed in my real life body

>> No.6220835
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>>6220823
>Huxley responsible for fucking half of these deaths

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>>6220835
Night of the Fourth Day

>> No.6220851

>>6220800
>Huxley kills everyone I had a stake in
>Orwell cries himself to sleep

>> No.6220856

I'm rooting for Huxley now
>Huxley exploding everyone
>Orwell just crying himself to sleep
get rekt, Orwell cunt. Huxley is going to btfo you as hard as his novel did to your shitty distopia

>> No.6220860

>>6220823

I've got my money on Homer using his sweet archery skills on everyone.

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>>6220847
The Fifth Day

>Huxley seeks more blood
RUN, ORWELL

>> No.6220869

>>6220860
Just as well he's not Zeno, or his arrows would never reach anybody.

>> No.6220870

>>6220867
slightly troubled by how emotionally invested I am in Orwell's survival

>> No.6220881

>>6220870

Here comes HUXER THE BUTCHER

>> No.6220883

Homer does an awful lot of "setting up camp for the night" -- my money's on Homer

>> No.6220888

>>6220603

>Orwell gathers as much food as he can

top kek

>> No.6220893
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>>6220867
Night of the Fifth Day

>Huxley's reign of terror comes to an end
An act of true heroism in these troubled times

>> No.6220897

>>6220823
THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!!!

>> No.6220900

>>6220893
If Kerouac wins everyone ITT has to read On the Road

>> No.6220901

>>6220893

Huxley got cocky after blowing everyone up, thought he was a big tough guy

>> No.6220902

>>6220893
About time that hack died

>> No.6220903

>>6220893
REJOYCE, THE TYRANT IS DEAD

>> No.6220905

>>6220893
Langston "the lifesaver" Hughes does it again.

>> No.6220907

>>6220893

It's kind of fitting how psychopathic Huxley looks in his photograph and in this game he's an ax-wielding murderer, though it would be hilarious and ironic had Dostoyevsky been the one with the ax.

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>>6220893
The Sixth Day

Homer's betrayal cometh...

>> No.6220909

>>6220900
Betting on Homer, I raise you an Odissey

>> No.6220911

>>6220856

Tfw you're rooting for this whole thing to be a ruse and for Orwell to use dem mad skillz he got in the spanish civil war to btfo Huxley while he's off his head on mescalin.

>> No.6220914

>>6220900
fuck, dubs confirms

>> No.6220915

>>6220908
GET 'EM HOMER

>> No.6220917

>>6220893

I've never heard of Hughes but I shall begin reading him for this very reason.

>> No.6220918

>>6220908
the Kerouac Shack now open for business

>> No.6220920

>>6220867
The man who wrote a utopian book is going on a fucking rampage when a war veteran who wrote a seminal dystopian book is running around like scared child.

Remind me why do we hate The Hunger Games again?

>> No.6220922

>>6220909
The First Book of the Negros if Hughes carries through.

>> No.6220924

>>6220920
The book is far less entertaining than the game.

>> No.6220925

>>6220920
>/lit/ is one person

>> No.6220926
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>>6220908
An arena event!

Orwell, after days of crying like a fucking bitch, finally makes his move

>> No.6220934

What do we read when Orwell wins?
Please not something well-known.

>> No.6220938

>>6220926
It's 1v1 now

>> No.6220939

>>6220900
Can I just hear the King Crimson song?

>> No.6220940

Proust would never be considered he was an invalid with asthma

>> No.6220941
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>>6220926
And then there were two...

Place your bets:

Orwell or Kerouac?

>> No.6220943

>>6220941
Orwell has this.

>> No.6220944

>>6220941
KEROUAC

>> No.6220945

>>6220934
His collection of essays.

>> No.6220948

>>6220926
Orwell was just playing dumb, this is just the beginning of his rampage. They dont call him Eric Blair (Witch Project) for nothing

>> No.6220951

>>6220941
O R W E L L
R
W
E
L
L

>> No.6220952

>>6220941
>only districts 9 and 11 left
In line with '/pol/ is always right', Orwell has this.

>> No.6220953

>>6220941
Orwell already fucked up based Homer and survived an attack by Huxley. He's obviously the strongest.

>> No.6220954

>>6220941

Orwell's got Onii-chan on his side.

>> No.6220959

>>6220908
Im praying for Orwell to survive. If he made it through the Spanish Civil War he can do the Hunger Games.

>> No.6220962

>>6220941
Orwell all day erry day

>> No.6220967

Kreouac because orwell is such a pussy

>> No.6220968

>>6220941
Let's go George, don't let the Catholic boy live.

>> No.6220973

Post faster OP

>> No.6220974

Here's hoping for another double suicide that fails.
Reading is for fags.

>> No.6220985

>>6220753
>Dante looks at the night sky

That one is very nice and true.

>>6220800
>fucking apocalypse raging on
>Homer calmly just prepares for bed

nigga is just so chill

>> No.6220988

Did OP lose the hunger games?
Will dead authors post the results now?

>> No.6220994
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6220994

>>6220941
ORWELL WINS

HUXLEYFAGS BTFO

>> No.6220998

>>6220994

holy shit, huxley ;-;

>> No.6221000

>>6220994
Get on with those essays fags.

>> No.6221004

>>6220994
Daw.

>> No.6221005

>>6220994
TYB George

>> No.6221010

>>6220994
1984 CONFIRMED SUPERIOR TO BRAVE NEW WORLD

>> No.6221013

>>6220994
Well that was anticlimactic

>> No.6221015

>>6220994
someone should crop this for a reaction image of George Orwell crying.

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>>6221015
Way ahead of you, friend

>> No.6221029

>>6220569
What's the source for this game OP?

>> No.6221031

what site did you use for this?

>> No.6221033

>>6221029
http://brantsteele.com/hungergames/disclaimer.php

>> No.6221044

Probably going to come down to Orwell and Kerouac

what a shame

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>>6221015
alternately:

>> No.6221123

>website goes down
Oops.

>> No.6221143

>>6220719
>Homer
Kek

>> No.6221144

>>6220640
>Fyodor Dostoevsky bashes Vladimir Nabokov's head in with a mace

This is just perfect.

>> No.6221221

>>6220569
uploaded to imgur for the enjoyment of our descendants
http://imgur.com/a/NTPqA?gallery

>> No.6221579

>>6220945
To get everyone started, here's Politics and the English Language and Shooting an Elephant, but I would recommend Homage to Catalonia for any Stalinists out there

http://faculty.washington.edu/rsoder/EDLPS579/HonorsOrwellPoliticsEnglishLanguage.pdf

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Orwell_Shooting.pdf

>> No.6221602

>>6221579
What site did you use for this?

>> No.6221675

>>6221602
I just did a google search to find pdfs. These were the first legitimate archives I could find. For short works it's not hard if you have one in mind

>> No.6221887

>>6220569
Burroughs, Blair and Eazy-E know how to shoot. Burroughs knows how to shoot well.

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>>6221022

>> No.6221924

>>6220640
>Jack Kerouac recieves medical supplies
>medical supplies
huehuehue

>> No.6221930

ALRIGHT SOMEONE DO A PHILOSOPHER EDITION NOW

>Plato and Aristotle
>Witty and Russell
>Hume and Berkeley
>Kirkegaard and Nietzsche

>> No.6223034

>>6220994
based

>> No.6223040

>>6221930

You do it you lazy cunt.

>> No.6223043

>>6221930
give me the link and I'll get to it

>> No.6223048

>>6223043

It's in the thread you lazy cunt.

>> No.6223050

>>6223048
My bad
Alright I'll make a thread after I set everything up

>> No.6223124

>>6223048
>>6223121

>> No.6223134

>>6220753
>Marcel Proust, Eazy-E, George Orwell and John Milton tell each other ghost stories to lighten the mood.
That is the sickest thing I have ever heard.

>> No.6223156

>>6220867
>Huxley seeks more blood
Just lost it in the middle of class. Fuck.

>> No.6223161

>>6220569
This has been my favorite thread. I love you /lit/

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>>6220640
>Fyodor Dostoevsky bashes Vladimir Nabokov's head in with a mace

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this is legendary.

>> No.6223461

>>6223124

I can't be arsed to click that, I'm a right lazy cunt.