/lit/ - Literature

>>7233276
/asp/ and /lit/ cross thread?

byron swam the hellespont, which was famous for hero and leander drowning in it because it's hard to swim

wilde was a good boxer, despite his argument with queensbury

gunji koizumi wrote a very good book on lacquerwork

>>7233286

I have varied interests. I'd like to believe that being a big dick alpha doesn't preclude you from trying to read good, too.

Honestly though. An old girlfriend gave me a copy of Ben Brooks' "Grow Up." It's sitting on my bookshelf and I've never even cracked it open. I just find the idea of taking any sort of life advice from pic related just... groce.

>>7233313
Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has never had to get a job.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has lived on his royalties alone for the past four years.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has lived in London, Berlin and Barcelona before the age of 23.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has easy access to PTAP whenever he wants it.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has won numerous awards for his writing.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks has received praise from Tim Key and Nick Cave for his work.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks is friends with some of the leading lights of contemporary writing, including Mira Gonzalez, Tao Lin and Luna Miguel.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks is a survivor of drug addiction and extreme depression.

Daily reminder that Ben Brooks is the man YOU want to be.

Plato was a pro wrestler.

>>7233276
>soldiers

>>7233321
rather be forgotten than mediocre tbh

>>7233400
What makes you think it's one or the other? Most people are forgotten and mediocre. If you're not forgotten there's a better chance you weren't mediocre.

>>7233321

>tfw when there are still people who see "daily reminder" posts and take the bait.

>>7233326

He wrestled under a mask as The Platonic Ideal

>>7233276
Papa went around punching Frenchmen in the face with Jimmy. Does that count?

is this a parody

>>7233586
Hemingway was also a gifted sportsman. Hunter, fisherman, a deeply physical man.

> not Starting Strength with the Greeks

discus and wrestling are essential for any serious reader

George R.R. Martin is an excellent eater. His physical prowess in the activity is nearly unmatched by any other writer.

>>7233321
And he wants to be a woman

>>7233392
Still struggle to believe this man lived into the 1990s

John von Dorf played on an international rugby team I think, or at least he references it when he's describing his other rugby endeavors.

I'm curious as to what kind of specific insight you think you're going to get from reading the works of these specific authors OP.

Are you just saying you'd respect their work more, or is there something I'm not getting?

Miyamoto Musashi

>>7233586
>>7233610

>getting worked by a man half your size

Hemmmingway talked a big game but he couldn't back it up.

That fight between Lawler and MacDonald was devastating. I wanted Rory to win so bad, but Lawler proved himself to be the better fighter. I can't wait for Rory to train his ass off and come back with a vengeance.

I seriously believe he'll have the WW belt one day within the next two years.

Robert E Howard was a boxer.

>>7234706

Lawler put the fear of God in the boy.
If anything Macdonald is going to start fighting much more cautiously now that Condit and Lawler have shown him that he's not as bad as everyone told him he was.

>>7234723
Nah, Rory's still a fearless killer. He said after the fight that he had "the best time of his life." Nobody in the right mind would say that after you saw what his face looked like following the fight.

Condit couldn't handle Rory in a rematch. The best bet for Rory is if Condit can beat Lawler and then Rory can come in and beat Condit for the belt. Or maybe Diaz can have the NSAC ban lifted and come back and get the belt from Lawler. Imagine how ballistic the world would go.

Pic related: it's Rory having "the best time of his life."

>>7233276
IIRC icycalm's (rest in peace) 100m was 10s slower than Phelps'.

Sasha Grey is a pretty into physical fitness I think, she's also one of our times greatest philosophers

>>7234700
Are you the same femboy faggot from the Hemingway thread last week?

>>7234757

I think Condit is a little overrated at this point but the Lawler fight should be a banger. I still want to see him scrap with Matt Brown if he loses to Robbie, who should fight Tyron next.

I think Rory beats Hendricks for his next title shot.

>firefighters
>physically gifted
Gifted at volleyball and sleeping maybe

>>7234858
have you ever actually met a firefighter? they have to stay in pretty good shape

>>7234844
Yeah, I don't see Tyron Woodley taking the belt from either Condit or Lawler, honestly. Lawler would make it look like a toddler fighting his dad, and I can see Condit dominating him just like Rory did.

Rory-Hendricks would be a great fight (if Johny "Big Pigg" Hendricks can make weight, that is). Those guys are the only two who I could see posing any threat whatsoever to Lawler.

We'll just have to see how Condit-Lawler plays out. Maybe Condit can throw a Uriah Hall spinning back kick out of nowhere and get the W. Who knows?

>ctrl f
>yukio mishima
>0 result

Son i am disappoint

>>7234411
He wants their discipline, mentality, habits and intuition,

>>7234990
>not posting the more successful fascist
>with a bigger dick and better prose

>still watching ufc
I don't get how anyone took it from Hendricks or why anyone would bring up Conduit without mentioning H

Does marathon running count?

>>7234990
This guy

Ken Kesey was also an all-American linebacker and did some pro wrestling. You could also consider the stunning quantity of drugs he consumed to be a physical feat.

The guy who wrote Fat City boxed semiprofessionally.

DFW was considered a promising tennis player in his youth.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes excellent criticism and has a mystery novel out.

The dude who wrote American Masculine was a pro basketball player in Germany

>>7235713
Oh and the homebody who wrote The Book of the Five Rings

>>7235795
Then we can count any of the masters of the western lineage as well - Fiore Die Liberi, Talhoffer, Lichtenauer, Marozzo, Silver, Salviolo etc.

>>7235812
I haven't read (or recognize) any of the names you've listed, but if their works have literary merit then why not?

>>7233276
literally tolkien

>>7235322
Hendricks is a slob who should be fighting at Middleweight.

>>7233276
Socrates was a hoplite.

The Greeks
Seriously

I'm a firefighter but just a volunteer so we aren't super fit. In Australia practically 1/10th of the male population are volunteer firefighters.

>>7234777
Checked and kek'd.

da Vinci was well over 6 feet and very very strong

>BJJ and Muay Thai
Plato would slam your ass with his wrestling and put you in a pretzel

Thomm Jones

>>7237861
>mfw plats literally means wide in my language

>>7235795
he's called miyamoto musashi. fam

>>7238739
He's called Plato because it was his wrestling nickname. It's a reference to his broad shoulders.

>>7237854
wasn't he a vegetarian tho?

>>7233276

"my jiu-jitsu, my muay thai"

oh just fuck off, those who say do not do and those who do don't say

Miyamoto Musashi developed a sword-fighting style that involved using two swords.

>>7233400
we both know that's not true, anon.

>>7239078
He also developed a way to fight with a paddle.

>>7237861

>Implying my sprawl isn't going to knock Plato's dick into the dirt.

>>7233276
>mma

cute

this badass motherfucker used to duel anyone for any reason.

>>7233952
He was literally the bouncer of his group of expats in France. Other authors would talk so much shit because they knew Big Ern would back them up. And he did.

He also used to beat drunks and bums with a fucking bat at his bar. This was after he went on safari in Africa where he survived two plain crashes and a bush fire. He is more manly than any of us combined.

>>7233402

I THINK IT WAS A PLAY ON THE DAILY REMINDER MEME--REMINDER/REMEMBER::FORGET/FORGOTTEN. THAT BROOKS ITS MEDIOCRE IS JUST GIVEN.

JUST MY TWO CENTS THO FAM YOU DECIDE

>>7240848
rly?

>>7240822
>sprawl effectively
>on a wrestler
Faggot

>>7240848
Duel culture was the most reckless yolo shit ever.

Schopenhauer flung his landlady down the stairs with one arm.

Leonardo was supposedly super strong and athletic.

Beckett was a good cricket player
Camus was a purty good soccer goalkeeper

>>7239078
>>7239683
You two are fucking idiots and the West doesn't deserve the Eastern tradition of Genealogies of Gyms & Styles