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>author is ugly

>> No.8138306

>William Vollmann

I really like You Bright and Risen Angels but jesus christ if Vollmann isn't the goofiest hick looking motherfucker.

>> No.8138322

>>8138302
somewhere out there Pynchon sheds a tear and doesn't know why

>> No.8138334

Who is James Joyce? Who is Virgina Woolf?

>> No.8138361

>>8138334
those certainly weren't ugly
if you want an ugly author it's, i dunno, balzac

>> No.8138370

I will never read The Tunnel on the basis of how much of a fuck ugly ballsack Gass is.

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>>8138361
>woolf wasn't ugly
ok bruh

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>>8138334

>> No.8138462

>>8138302

Name a beautiful author that is actually good.

>> No.8138472

>>8138462
Ezra Pound
Hart Crane
William Gaddis
Samuel Beckett
John Hawkes

>> No.8138483

>>8138462
Melville.

>> No.8138485

>>8138371
Look at the picture of her when she was twenty on Wikipedia. She was cute.

>> No.8138495

>>8138371
>implying anyone here would have a chance with a woman half as attractive as that

>> No.8138526

>>8138371
She had a Zadie Smith-esque English grace to her facial expression.

>> No.8138536

>>8138485
Pretty sure that was a trick of the angle.

>> No.8138569

>>8138472

Hawkes and Beckett don't count as beautiful.

>> No.8138597

>>8138462
Me but I'm too obscure for anyone here.

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>>8138569
>implying

>> No.8138671

>>8138302
Iktf, recently started reading moz's autobio

>> No.8138675

I think pynchon's cute

>> No.8138800

>>8138604
Holy shit be still my heart.
>>8138472
Ezra Pound was a hottie too. While we're on the subject I think Chuck Pahlaniuk is hot too, but not hot enough for me to check and see if I spelled his name wrong.

What a deep meaningful discussion we're having here.

>> No.8138803

>>8138800
>What a deep meaningful discussion we're having here.
Kys.

>> No.8138808

>>8138306
Yeah I love Vollmann but he is... Not pretty.

>> No.8138813

>>8138803
You first, faggot.

>> No.8138822

>>8138813
Nah. You're the cunt who spergs idiocy like that to your four group of 19 year old friends. Haha we're so silly! I love us.
You and your kind are a disease.
We don't need to have deep and meaningful discussions. We are all aware of what we're talking about. You're the faggot who has to ruin it.

>> No.8138824

>>8138803

Kies?
Kiss?

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>>8138462
fitzgerald
rimbaud
tolstoy
mishima
wittgenstein

authors, especially poets, are beautiful more often than they are not

>> No.8138834

>>8138824
"kys" short for "kill yourself" because >>8138822
wants to make sure everyone knows he's the coolest edgiest guy on the block.

>> No.8138849

>>8138302
gassinachair.png

>> No.8139724

>it's a millenial thread where everyone posts about the attractiveness of authors like this is a beiber forum

bravo for managing to be worse than bookshelf attention whoring/haul threads though, I mean I guess that took some effort

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>>8138825
>rimbaud

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>>8138302
>Author is.

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>>8138302
>OP is a bigger faggot than usual

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>deedeleeedededeledededeleduhdunuh

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lmao

>> No.8140153

>>8138371
I'd destroy myself to get to her and make her love me

>> No.8140759

>>8139832

>implying authors exist

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>>8138302

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>>8138371
Fuck the fucking fuck off, she was beautiful.

>> No.8140985

>>8140976

Bit of a horse face, lad...

>> No.8141029

>>8138361
Balzac wasn't that ugly and was known to have intense eyes.

>> No.8141030

>>8139742
DELET.

>> No.8141040

>>8140985
It's called the English condition

>> No.8141295
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Out of the way, lads!
Ridiculously handsome knight of faith coming through

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>>8141295
the best

>> No.8141545

>>8141295
>>8141316
>literal hunchback
>handsome

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>>8139928

>> No.8141652

>>8138371
she looks like oscar wilde lmao

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>>8139819
>author
>implying

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>>8138302
>ugly
>fat

Literally the reason I haven't ever read and never will read his stuff.

>> No.8142432

>>8142330
He looks like a man I could trust.

>> No.8142839

>Author isn't grizzled and rugged
>His books suck

>> No.8142859

>>8142330
his throat is just repulsive

>> No.8142860

>>8140976

She got a big old melon head!
Big old tater head!

>> No.8142863

>>8142330

I'll never read him because his last name is Gass and that bloated disgusting gut combined with that last name just makes me think of a pretentious windbag blowing out diseased farts which he then greedily sniffs.

>> No.8142868

>>8138462
Guy de Maupassant