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Anonymous Tue Jun 5 13:29:41 2018 No.11272261 [Reply] [Original]

>"Philip Larkin arrived in Hull to take up the post of librarian at the university. He’d stay 30 years; he’d turn down the poet laureate job, he’d never marry, he’d use binoculars to spy on young female students who attended the redbrick institution"

https://www.midaspr.co.uk/news-stories/time-out-celebrates-philip-larkins-hull-larkin25/

Wow, this is...not okay. Why should kids be taught Larkin in schools when he was just a weird pervert?

#MeToo

Anonymous Tue Jun 5 13:38:02 2018 No.11272308
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>"I was frantically chasing his ex-girlfriend. He was married by this time, and he knew me as the guy who like basically just not taking no for an answer from his girlfriend."

WHAT THE F**K!?!?

David Wallace was in on this too?

#NoMeansNo

Anonymous Tue Jun 5 13:44:32 2018 No.11272342

>>11272261

Larkin: what a man. Second-best English post-WW2 poet (after Hughes).

"Did I say I have a TV set now? Where's all this porn they keep talking about?... Just like this so-called permissive society, never permitted me anything that I can remember. Like SCHOOLGIRLS SUCKING EACH OTHER OFF WHILE YOU WHIP THEM, or -"

- Letter to Kingsley Amis, 1979

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:02:39 2018 No.11274105 >>11272342 Better than Hughes imo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:08:46 2018 No.11274137 Larkin being a kind of dull repressed Tory creep isn’t exactly a secret if you read his poetry. Church Going is one of my favourite poems, and I don’t know if it could have come from someone different.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:08:50 2018 No.11274138 >>11272261 I'm from Hull, I'd fail to accurately express how unbelivably in tune I am with Larkin even if I tried, especially as an aspiring artist from here. It's funny, the more they tear him down beyond the grave the more I realize I have no future.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:17:35 2018 No.11274177 >>11274137 Yeah the furor after his letters were published was insane. "I CAN'T BELIEVE LARKIN WAS SUCH A SEXIST!" I mean, have you READ his fucking poetry?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:23:28 2018 No.11274201 >>11274177 Honestly the way they treat people who were "mean speaking" as rapists or spree killers is fucked nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:26:58 2018 No.11274216 >>11274201 it's white genocide, mate. Be careful out there, we're being targeted

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 19:29:43 2018 No.11274225 >>11274216 >we Incels aren't white

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