/lit/ - Literature

not even close

desu

Obviously

>>8120330
Charlie Chapplin did it better. Hitler was a mess.

not even close famalam

shit isn't even a got damn contest. other facial hair is enslaved by his.

>>8120367
why this nigga always look like such a badass

>>8120760
He looked best after he went insane

>>8120760
looks like joseph gordon levitt starring in eraserhead

>>8121366
>>8120367
Evil Bob Dylan.

Henrik Ibsen tbqh

>>8121826
Lmao

>>8121842
Useful for cheek-warming in the harsh Norwegian winters

>>8120760
because he was a very fashion-conscious man (described by some contemporaries as a "dandy") who carefully cultivated a poet image

>>8121366
Pound didn't go insane. He followed bad ideas to their logical conclusions. The seeds of old Pound are everywhere in the writings of young Pound. It was a mercy to call him insane and institutionalize him rather than calling him a traitor to his country. But a traitor he was.

>"he is an intellectual 'crackpot' who imagined that he could correct all the economic ills of the world and who resented the fact that ordinary mortals were not sufficiently intelligent to understand his aims and motives."

This from an officer who escorted him to St. Elizabeth's.

This is not a disease of the brain—it is the normal thinking of a man who never once checked his own vanity, nor ever had one democratic thought. He was vain and disgusting as a young man, and an idiot in his old age. Thus it always goes.

>>8120335
superior version

>>8120367
yes

>>8121936

>nor ever had one democratic thought

You say that like it's a flaw, but hey!

Keep thinking the truth can be decided by, or found within, a ballot box.

Are you even trying?

>>8122163

I remember in one of his aphorisms, he basically called facial hair 'lewd', like some sort of erotic/pornographic feature to please women.

Mutton chops must have been the exception.

>>8122169
what do you mean, like he thought facial hair turns women on?

>>8122199

Basically.

There's a painting of him in his younger years where he's clean shaven, so he must have believed it.

>>8120341
>Chapplin

>>8120247
well, this is a thread of sorts I guess

>>8121366
isnt this richard yates

>>8120247
>i can't grow a beard

>>8120270

>tfw the buttplug touches ur prostate jus right

I don't love the man, and I don't care much for his books. But shit, he looked good.

>>8120373
he just looks like a white frederick douglass

>>8125402
welp. can't unsee that.

>>8125386
Long mustache/short beard combo is where it's at