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>named confucius
>not confused at all but actually very smart and aware and wise
why

>> No.12852779

>stephen king
>he's not actually king of anything
ummm wtf?

>> No.12852802

>named lawrence sterne
>not stern at all but actually unusually easy-going

wat

>> No.12852807

>>12852779
The King of Trash

>> No.12852814
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>named Graham Greene
>he is not colored green at all
still one of the authors of all time. did i like him?

>> No.12852830

>>12852814
>still one of the authors of all time.

Yes is in fact an author.

>> No.12852849

>george orwell
>is actually just george, and is not in fact a well
some of them are not that bad

>> No.12852864

>>12852849
>george orwell
It was an estimate of his true nature - now we know he was just George.

>> No.12852868

>william shakespeare
>probably never shook a spear in his life

>> No.12852877

>>12852776
>named Nietszche
>indeed a NEET
phew

>named Plato
>formed the foundation of the Western philosophical tradition from the play-doh of his ideas
based

>> No.12852914
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>>12852868
always gets me

>> No.12852924

>>12852868
His family's coat of arms references this, funnily enough.

>> No.12852943

>named balzac
>not a walking scrotum, just a boring realist
wtfff

>> No.12852955
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>>12852924
you ought to look up "canting arms"

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>this thread
Im easy to entertain

>> No.12853027

>>12852776
>immanuel kant
>can't understand him
Bravo

>> No.12853044

>Oscar wilde
>Not wild at all but a civilized city dweller

>> No.12853047

He's Kung Fu Tzu in some older manuscripts, which some translators helpfully render as
>Master Kung Fu
>>12852877
Plato was his wrestling name.
>>12852849
Wigan Pier's a lot like finding out he's not a well.

>> No.12853067

>>12853047
What do you think his wrestling style and record was like?

>> No.12853082

>>12853067
Well, if his shoulders were that big, he'd be easy to pin.

>> No.12853113

>>12853082
H-hot. Everything about Platon leaves us to conclude he was very likely into men exclusively, regardless of how far he strayed into what is today called "homosexuality".

>> No.12853119

>>12852776
You have it wrong
>Confucius
>Confuc us
>Confuse us

>> No.12853132

>Ezra Pound.
>Not only he was not a pound, he was not even a currency.
...¿?

>> No.12853154

>H.P. Lovecraft
most hateful person ever, disliked working with his hands

>> No.12853165

>vladamir nabokov
>not vladamir nab-a-kid

>> No.12853168

>Stephen Crane
>Not a crane but a person
seriously??

>> No.12853173

>named Andy Weir
>not weird at all

>> No.12853358
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>>12853168
reality is often disappointing
>tfw a real crane will never ever start writing books

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>>12852776
>Fernando Pessoa
>is actually a person
that one works

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>>12852776
>named hitler
>has never hit the LIRR in his life, let alone seen it

>> No.12853458

>>12852830
lurk before posting idiot

>> No.12853607

>>12852868
>Shakespeare was male.
>All males masturbate.
>Shakespeare ‘shook a spear.’

It’s even a valid argument.

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>named Deleuze
>was actually right about everything

>> No.12854140

>>12852807
Got em

>> No.12854854
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>Quevedo
>he wore quevedos

>> No.12854898

>>12852776
because he wasnt anglocuck

>> No.12855071

>>12853451
That's pretty obscure, anon.

>> No.12855073

>>12854898
#notallanglos
#stopthehate

>> No.12855088

>>12852849
his name is george OR well, not george andwell. turns out he was george the whole time, thankfully

>> No.12855638

>character is named buddha
>doesn't have a brother named pesstha
what a fucking wasted opportunity

>> No.12855674

>>12852776
>helps keep the dynasty together awhile longer through a fetishism of authority
>actually makes all of east Asia fall behind the rest of the globe in the long-run

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>>12853402
The original of this ghetto meme was a lot better

>> No.12855702

>Oswald Spengler
>not a tin smith
?

>> No.12855721
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>Dude is named Albert Camus
>Never pointed his cam at us
>just rambled about his suicidal thoughts the whole time

>> No.12855750

>pinecone
>is hardly related to trees at all
???

>>12853044
He was quite wild honestly.

>> No.12855779

>>12855674
It was the Manchus' fault.

>> No.12856878

>>12853402
Woah

>> No.12857005

>>12854030
>named Deleuze
>was actually wrong about everything
checks out

>> No.12857020

>>12852776
>named Karl Marx
>in his own words, not a marxist
??

>> No.12857203

>>12852776
>why
Subversion of expectations