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1184523 No.1184523 [Reply] [Original]

You are hosting a dinner party. You can invite any three writers, whether they are alive or dead. (Your resurrection machine doubles as a universal translator.) Who do you pick?

I'd go for Hume, Borges, and Mencken. It should make for quite interesting conversation...

>> No.1184527

they would ignore you and be annoyed by your presence there

>> No.1184529
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1184529

So what you're saying is that you think Sean Connery is immortal. I agree.

This thread is now about Sean Connery.

>> No.1184532

Plato, Socrates, Keats
first bow down before Keats and cry for mercy for being around him and not being nearly as good a poet

second figure out if the philosophers agree with the clarity of the dialogues

>> No.1184530

thomas pynchon three times
i would then take pictures of them fucking
which they would surely do

>> No.1184537

Oscar Wilde, that is all.

>> No.1184538

>>1184530
LOL its so damn true, and while fucking he would be yelling out paradoxical rhymes and poem songs

>> No.1184539

>>1184523
Lovecraft, Hitler, and Marx.

Hitler and Marx fight to the death, Lovecraft and me hold an intellectual gibberish conversation in the middle of the fight ring concerning who would win, the Old Ones or Obama.

>> No.1184540

Locke, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy ought to get things heated.

>> No.1184541

>>1184538
and on his ass would be tattooed the W.A.S.T.E. symbol

>> No.1184542

>>1184527

No doubt. I'd probably just shut the fuck up and listen.

>> No.1184558

Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Hitler

lololololo

>> No.1184564

Oscar Wilde, JD Salinger and Vladimir Nabokov.

>> No.1184573
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>>1184523
MC Hawking
DJ Jazzy Jeff
The Fresh Prince

>> No.1184578

G.K. Chesterton, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Vance

They are the writers I most want to talk to. And they're all pretty entertaining people. And it would be pretty crazy to have them all in the same room.

>> No.1184585

>>1184573
You spelled erry wrong

>> No.1184607

Ernst Hemingway
Mark Twain
Karl Marx or George Orwell

>> No.1184631

>>1184607
>HEY LETS GET SHITFACED
>Witty bullshit from Twain.
>Long story from Orwell about how much communism sucks.
>WANNA ARM WRESTLE? HEY LETS GO FISHING WITH SOME BROWN PEOPLE!

>> No.1184654

Socrates, Alexander the Great, Nietzsche

>> No.1184663

Tolstoy, Marx, and Rand.

>> No.1184670

Eco, Feyerabend, and Rorty.

>> No.1184691

Machiavelli, Marx, James Stuart Mill

It would be glorious and they'd argue for the whole dinner. Bonus points if I could add Weber

>> No.1184694

>>1184691
don't you mean John Stuart Mill

>> No.1184695

>>1184691
*James Mill
FFF

>> No.1184699

>>1184694
No, I fucking don't. None of that halfway into reform liberalism bullshit

>> No.1184703

Carl Sagan, Hunter Thompson and Lord Byron

We'll all go smoke Sagan's magic space weed and become crimefighters

>> No.1184709

>>1184699
his fucking father?

>> No.1184711

Going to go ahead and imagine all of these dinner parties as crime fighting teams instead. Because that's much more interesting.

>> No.1184721

>>1184703
lord byron would start fucking all of you while you were comatose because thompson would have spiked the weed with a combination of acid, ecstasy, and DMT.
but as soon as thompson regained consciousness, he would shoot everyone.

>> No.1184723
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1184723

Sagan, Borges and Hemingway. We'd get shit-faced and shoot some tin cans and discuss the nature of the universe. And then go to the nearest bar to hunt down some pussy and get them laid one last time before the wormhole takes them back into nothingness.

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>mfw when only two people mention Wilde

>> No.1184728

>>1184726
Wilde was a boring fuck

>> No.1184729

Caesar, Augustus and Constantine I

>> No.1184730
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>>1184728

>denying that Wilde was the greatest conversationalist who ever graced the English language

>> No.1184734

I would take the Plan 9 resurrection machine to DARPA for extensive analysis instead of wasting its three charges on a meaningless dinner party for my own amusement.

>> No.1184735

>>1184729
this is especially true because Romans held the best dinner parties in the history of mankind

>> No.1184736

Not sure for the entire 3 but I'd definitely invite Steph Meyer.

I don't want to be the idiot at the table.

>> No.1184738

Roger Zelazny, Immanuel Velikovsky, and Luo Guanzhong.

>> No.1184745

>>1184721
Sounds like a pretty good night

>> No.1184976

Hemingway, Seneca, Shelley

>> No.1184981

Bukowski, Hemmingway and Hunter S Thompson.

That universal translator would come in real handy as the night grew older.
Also, check your weapons at the door.

>> No.1184996

I would have three Pynchons and just stare at them accusingly while they ate soup in nervous silence.

Then we would retire to the back room and talk about teeth and drugs and whatnot.

>> No.1184998

>Implying your favorite writers would want to hang out with you.

>> No.1185021

>>1184998
They would if I invented a time machine/dead-body-reanimator that could also serve as a universal translator, wouldn't they?

>> No.1185032

You people don't know how to have fun.

I'd invite Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer and be sure to keep their glassses full. And Charlotte Roche, because I'm reasonably sure she puts out.

>> No.1185046

>>1184736
That, but for an entirely different reason

>> No.1185050

Van Gogh, Warhol and probably Michelangelo... I don't know, there's so many authors I know and love.

>> No.1185051

>>1185046
>implying he'd kill her.

First time in my life greentext has actually been used to point out implications.

>> No.1185060
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Brautigan, Denis Johnson, and Franzen.

Mostly just to get wasted with Brautigan and laugh at the two douchrods.

>> No.1185063

>>1185050
You'd kick that talentless hack Warhol in the teeth, right?

>> No.1185077

Bukowski, Burroughs, and Thompson just to see the outcome.

>> No.1185080

Alfred Jarry, Lautreamont, William S Burroughs

>> No.1185081
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1185081

Salinger, Pychon, Lovecraft

Shit's gonna fly know what I mean bros!?

I just got out of uni /lit/ :)