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783651 No.783651 [Reply] [Original]

Great troll author or greatest troll author?

>> No.783659

I'm not sure how he was a troll. He was on drugs.

>> No.783665

Hunter S. Thompson was the greatest troll ever. E V E R !

>> No.783667
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783667

I'll drink to that.

>> No.783679

Junkie was a troll, but Naked Lunch was in earnest.

>> No.783686

>>783665
Hunter S. Thompson was the greatest (INSERT NOUN HERE) ever

>> No.783689
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783689

we hang

>> No.783690

>>783686

The beats are all awful, no excuses. Get out.

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>>783690
Haters gonna hate.

>> No.783723

>>783690

>implying Thompson was a beat

oh u

>> No.783732

>>783723

He's clearly influenced by the beats. If you disagree, you're a moron.

>> No.783738

>>783732
The beats influenced everything of consequence that came after them. If you disagree, you're a moron.

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>>783732
you make no sense, I dislike you

>> No.783750

>>783738

The beats were just an imitation of Henry Miller.

>> No.783759

>>783750
Who was a shitty imitation of stream of consciousness writers.

>> No.783764

>>783732
>>783732

>being influenced is equal to be one of them

you make no sense, son.

>> No.783772

>>783759
Who were a shitty imitation of _____ (ad infinitum)

>> No.783775

>>783764

You can be strongly influenced, as in that's your direct line of descent.

>> No.783776

>>783772

But James Joyce wasn't a shitty imitation of anyone. He was James Joyce.

>> No.783782

>>783775
>>783775

it doesn't matter in Thompson's case, if you read his letters, he never calls himself a "beat", as a matter of fact in some letter he shows some disdain for the "beat movement". Maybe he was influenced, but then >>783738

>> No.783786

>>783776
fucking farts his way into history the way man never fucked farts before