/lit/ - Literature

>>7014519
He was such a hideous-looking person

>le epic manly masculinity! bacon, beards and beer!

>>7014519

>>7014527

O no he didin!

For my part I'd say Peter Hitchens.

Is this really the level of quality /lit/ is down to now?

>>7014524
>le im a 25+ that can't grow a beard, therefor being manly sucks xDDDDDDDDDDDDD also fug lifding, I like strapon in my ass :-DDD
Typical Western male, no wonder why are you so entrenched in Capitalism and interracial cuckoldry.

This is some pretty hard projecting right here.

>>7014545
Not hard as my dick when I was fucking your gf and mum at the same time whilst having you watch the whole thing.

>>7014550

I hope this happens to your children.

>>7014524
>being a man is edgy
haha what the fuck
if anyone is edgy it's you

>>7014561
I was shitposting anon. What is the image referencing to? What happened?

>implying I'm ever getting a family
Anon, don't forget where you are.

>>7014571

>What is the image referencing to?

Completely safe, FDA-approved, wholesome Agent Orange.

>>7014539
Didn't you forget to add that cool comparison pic?

>>7014669
then the comparison is a fedora

I wouldn't call him edgy. I just grew tired of him building up a story to fucking end it at nowhere. Not to mention his action description is horrible.

He had a few good stories though.

>>7014519
What does it mean to be edgy?

>>7014677
>leftism in a nutshell

>>7014539
Enjoy being a male drag king.
Has your beard compensated for your height yet?

>>7014527
You have to be like the guy from Notes from Underground to enjoy Cioran.

>>7014682
>building up a story to fucking end it at nowhere.
Literally never did this. Did you expect full-blown apocalypse endings or "lel i beat up all the old ones :^)" ?

>>7014744
"I don't like thing"

You got to be pretty damn savage to write "God is Dead"

>>7014524
Hemingway is never edgy

>>7014524
Hemingway is the original sincerity. He's very emotionally open and vulnerable in his writing. I've been to war, hunted in Africa and seen a bullfight, so it's not like the stuff he writes about is bullshit.

>>7016359
That's an observation; it's not edgy. Proclamations and claims of action are edgy, something like "God needs to be killed!"

>le humanity is irredemably evil
>le hope and optimism are not allowed

>muh symbolism
>muh subconscious writing
>lel ask me what it means XD

what a hack.

>>7016395
A sincere alcoholic... Yeah ok buddy.

>>7016428

What Camus have you been reading you dope?

>>7014519
Get on my level.

>>7016450
i'm trying to not get mad but you're testing me here m8

>>7016404
So by your logic, the statement "Hitler did nothing wrong" is not edgy?

>>7014519
There was nothing edgy about Lovecraft when he was doing his writing. If anything, he was stuffy and conservative.

Everybody hated blacks and foreigners back then. Half the country lived under legally enforced racial segregation, and businesses even in "progressive" Northern cities refused to hire immigrants. Lovecraft's hate was mild by comparison to the world around him.

>anything but icycalm

in b4 "he's not a writer". Yes he is.

>edgiest writer
>No Burroughs
>No Sotos

Plebs

>>7016533
The people that knew him said that his xenophobia and racism was even worse than most people at the time.

>>7014524
4/10, slightly rustled

>>7018148
Not the poster you're replying to, but you are correct. His racism was worse than most of the people in his own social circles, especially. That said, it would not likely have been looked at by anyone as anything close to "edgy." It would have been looked at the same was his prose was - as old-fashioned. He was stuck in a mental space of wishing he'd lived a century earlier. He was also just a really screwed up guy who'd had a weird fucking life. Not edgy at all, really. Just kind of a racist, awkward dork, who wrote some really great spoopy stories along with a bunch of absolute trash.

From "The Call of Cthulhu"

>Examined at headquarters after a trip of intense strain and weariness, the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of Negroes and mulattoes, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But before many questions were asked, it became manifest that something far deeper and older than Negro fetishism was involved. Degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith.

>>7016787
Why is Burroughs edgy? Most of the stuff he wrote about was ripped straight out of his life.

>>7020037
Yummy prose, gotta love Howard.

>>7016450
Beckett was very modest and considered in his personal relationships. He cared for his nieces and nephews dearly and was very generous, he's like the least edgy person on this website

>>7020125

>he's like the least edgy person on this website

And who's that?

>>7016428
>I haven't actually read Camus

>>7016510
There is an implied action in that statement, "we should finish what Hitler started".

If someone said "Hitler is God" in the context of 1930s Germany, that wouldn't be "edgy".

>>7016460
Aggressive gayness

edgy is the word used to describe teenagers that misunderstand writers like these, not the actual authors. if you think that people who wrote classic dark or controversial material many years ago, you're dumb.

>>7020207
think that people who wrote WHAT you fucking faggot

>>7014527
>Not liking Emil “I long to be free-desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free” Cioran

>>7020037
this is like a caricature of racism