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ITT: Post your /lit/ conspiracy theories.

>The Picture of Dorian Gray is semi-autobiographical

>> No.16639660

>>16639639
>tfw Oscar Wilde retroactively wrote my diary

>> No.16639674

>>16639639
>If you repeat "Rimbaud" three times in front of a mirror at midnight a cute twink demon boyfriend will appear

>> No.16639702

>Eichmann never went to Jerusalem
>We are all living in a novel that is currently being written by Italo Calvino
>Celine's cat was Jew. Celine pretended to hate Jews so no one would bother looking at his cat's dick.
>Gogol was inspired by Joy Division
>Butterfly is Emily Dickinson's secret granddaughter (after Emily was raped by his father)

>> No.16639789

>Lovecraft is non-fiction
>Pynchon is the collective subconscious of every writer.
>Dolores wanted it
>Plato, Aristotle and Socrates were one
>Schopenhauer is Goethe's son
>Shakespeare was group of writers.
>Pre-Mesopotamian writings
>Holden raped his sister.
>Alternative ending of the Bible.

>> No.16639915

>Reddit is actually the last Pynchon novel
>Proust never had sex
>de Sade was muslim
>Mishima wrote and draw a gay hentai story
>Jean Baudrillard is a simulation
>The Iliad is meant to be played as a video game
>Borges pretended to be blind so women would get naked in front of him
>Jesus already came back and we are living in hell
>Tocqueville never went to America
>The Stranger is an anti-Arab manifesto
>Beckett was actually autist and was never meant to be absurd
>Joyce died because he refused to eat anything other than Nora’s shits
>Pynchon is now living as an old homeless trans-woman
>Lucian went to the moon
>A modest proposition was not satire
>Shakespeare only translated old Greek manuscripts he found and destroyed them afterwards
>Moliere was Louis XIV

>> No.16639937

>>16639915
>>Borges pretended to be blind so women would get naked in front of him
Best one. Made me kek.

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>>16639915
>>16639789
>>16639702
>>16639639
>90% of books written by one author
Explain this one to me please

>> No.16640029

These ones are from two short stories by Apollinaire:
>the two thieves in Luke's account of the crucifixion are actually the Father and the Spirit who incarnated themselves at the same time as the Son
>The wandering Jew is still wandering and you can meet him

>> No.16640091

>>16639940
If you're genuinely asking, there is no explanation, most of the low-level "conspiracies" are interesting sounding phrases 4channers put there for laughs. I've seen threads where they make up new additions for these pics.

>> No.16640093

>>16640029
>>The wandering Jew
So... Cain?

>> No.16640208

>>16640093
nope Ahasvérus, it's a middle age legend

>> No.16640411

>>16639789
>Shakespeare was group of writers.
This is actually 100% true

>> No.16640461

Nobody originally thought that Emily Dickenson is a good poet when her stuff finally got published they just pretended she was because they were making fun of her

>> No.16640527

>Hemingway-Faulkner feud was a lover’s tiff and their shots at each other weren’t about their work but about their genitalia

>Melville has no clue what he was doing when writing Moby Dick and lucked out

>Shakespeare was French and his plays were him trying his hand at English

>Confessions by Augustine is a satire

>> No.16640555

>We are currently in a machine designed for dynamic storytelling, we are basically in an rpg game where we all are characters made to flesh out the world so to speak

>Hemingway was gay

>Hunter S. Thompson isn't dead, he faked his suicide

>GRRM has finished the Winds of Winter 4-5 times, but keeps losing his work to faulty hardware

>Aliens have published books on Earth

>Donald Trump actually wrote Trump Tower, an erotic suspense novel.

>The Bible is missing a book after Revelations

>> No.16640640

>Shakespeare and Joyce were Jewish

>> No.16640750

>The CIA is trying to turn America into a modernist novel.

>> No.16640823

>>16640093
cartaphilus

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>>16640093
or you can just read Kane

>> No.16642096

>>16640411
midwit unskilled aspiring writer cope.

>>We are currently in a machine designed for dynamic storytelling, we are basically in an rpg game where we all are characters made to flesh out the world so to speak
Peak zoomer mentality. Gross.

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>>16639674
>It works

>> No.16642162

That the Appreciate the Quran threads are made by the formerly orthodox spammer Constantine and are an attempt to build up support of for ISIS.

>> No.16642531

>>16639639
>Aeneas founded London
>Finnegan's Wake was divinely inspired
>Shakespeare invented the human

>> No.16642809

>no books are allowed in Africa
>René Descartes was a NPC
>Alfred Janny worked for free
>W.B. Yeats' tiktok account
>the annual post Nobel prize orgy
>Nietzsche became sane again in the end of his life
>The Bible was the first anonymous message board
>no one actually speaks French
>Shakespeare wrote in free verse

>> No.16642824

>>16639940
>Big onions
Fucking lost

>> No.16642849

>>16639639
>the Gospel of Judas is legit
>Napoleon kidnapping the pope was an inside job
>the author is alive, but only when dead
>the Western book market is controlled by Jeff Bezos, Joaquin Phoenix, and Joan K Rowling
>according to Nostradamus capital letter Literature will be revolutionized thrice this century
>finishing A Confederacy Of Dunces is the only way to exit /lit/ for good
This is my last post. Farewell.

>> No.16643057

>>16642849
See you tomorrow

>> No.16643060

Pushkin faked his death and became Dumas

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>>16642849

>> No.16643084

>>16642096
?

>> No.16643696

>>16639639
A friend of Robert Bloch resurrected Edgar A. Poe and kept him in the basement of his decrepit old house.
There the Zombie Poe wrote new horror stories like "The New Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" and "In the Vault" and others.
It all came to an and when the house was burned down to the ground with its two residents and all of the manuscripts written by "new"Poe.

>> No.16643699

>>16639639
Did they really have a spoiler on the cover..

>> No.16643716

>>16643699
>spoiler
go back

>> No.16644488

>>16639915
>The Stranger is an anti-Arab manifesto
>Beckett was actually autist and was never meant to be absurd
These two sound very probable for some reason

>> No.16644599

>>16644488
cheggiddy-check-checked!

>> No.16644711

>>16644488
based

>> No.16645030

>>16644488
holy based