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Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:06:59 2019 No.12452170 [Reply] [Original]

When he dies, will there be any great English prose stylists left alive?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:07:32 2019 No.12452173 >>12452170 Julian Barnes

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:08:50 2019 No.12452180 File: 818 KB, 1347x643, 1546304326142.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:10:04 2019 No.12452188 >>12452173 >Britfag Yeah, literature will sail away into the sunset ... and drown.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:10:37 2019 No.12452197 >>12452170 Just me desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 18:25:04 2019 No.12452293 >>12452170 Me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 19:48:03 2019 No.12452830 >>12452170 Pinecone. But he'll probably drop dead shortly after McCarthy. We're fucked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 19:50:33 2019 No.12452842 >>12452170 He’s 85. When he dies I will cry. Without a doubt my favorite author ever. I have 4 of his first editions. I’d like to track down a first edition of Suttree and Blood Meridian before he dies tho. Both of those are like $2500 each.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 19:51:40 2019 No.12452844 Don't worry lads, I'm here to save you. Just got to get this fucknut NY literary agent to agree to represent my novella, "All the Cum in North America" about semen thieves smuggling samples from professional athletes to breed superhumans

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 20:31:42 2019 No.12453055 >>12452830 >implying Pynch is even writing anymore He's four years older than McCarthy anyway, and all those years of drugs have probably addled his brain

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 20:34:20 2019 No.12453076 >>12452180 Me at famiIy gatherings verbatim