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Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:30:13 2020 No.16769002 [Reply] [Original]

>My favorite author is Burroughs
What kind of person do you imagine?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:30:50 2020 No.16769005 >>16769002 An average dude. Wanna play LoL?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:37:09 2020 No.16769048 >>16769005 So the average man shoots his wife in the face? You sound like a dangerous man - I don't think I want to hang out with you...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:40:08 2020 No.16769068 >>16769048 :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:41:32 2020 No.16769080 >>16769002 Def like going to children's parks

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 14:56:29 2020 No.16769166 >>16769002 A retard. Not in the internet "haha ur such a retard", but actually medically retarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 15:05:07 2020 No.16769219 File: 25 KB, 300x480, Rainer_Maria_Rilke,_1900.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >My favorite poet is Rilke Who do you imagine?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 18:44:10 2020 No.16770652 redpilled degenerate

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 18:47:23 2020 No.16770674 File: 219 KB, 1200x1200, bc3a72ed5c47e8c0dd5bc52028c5df5005-kanye-west.rsquare.w1200.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >My favorite poet is Kanye What kind of person do you imagine?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 18:49:50 2020 No.16770683 >>16769219 Extremely based.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 18:52:21 2020 No.16770692 https://youtu.be/yLGNGmPX7oY

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 19:08:09 2020 No.16770772 >>16769048 It was an accident, bro, I was real torn up about it

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 19:21:59 2020 No.16770838 >>16769002 the kind of guy that defends pedophilia

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 19:26:56 2020 No.16770860 >>16769048 a man can either shoot his wife in the face or not that's an 50 / 50 chance 50% so very average indeed

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 19:28:20 2020 No.16770868 >>16769048 What do you mean, the op is asking what kind of person likes burroughs as an author, not whether they identify with the guy as much as humanly possible

Anonymous Thu Nov 12 19:35:24 2020 No.16770905

>>16770868
>what kind of person likes burroughs

A person who's a piece of shit probably with lots of affectations. I've spent a lot a fair amount of time around the literary institutions that are associated with the Beat movement and this is is the conclusion I've come to. I once saw this phenomenon hit critical mass when I attended a book reading by Ferlinghetti.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 22:58:21 2020 No.16772039 >>16769048 jesus christ, he gets drunk and shoots his wife and everyone loses their shit. Rimbaud says "if you only knew how fucking stupid you look standing there with that fish in your hand!" and Verlaine shoots him and nobody says anything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 22:59:22 2020 No.16772043 >>16770905 Burroughs was co-opted by the beats. his work wasn't beat any more than Hunter Thompson's was traditional journalism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 23:00:27 2020 No.16772047 File: 1.75 MB, 1203x830, d13eef54-c2aa-4d07-a4fa-23c9a8d14cbc~01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16769002 My favorite writer is Louis-Ferdinand Céline, what kind of man do you imagine?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 23:06:32 2020 No.16772071 >>16769002 >What kind of person do you imagine? Degenerate and directionless young man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 12 23:26:09 2020 No.16772180 File: 312 KB, 1200x1200, 1603330214758.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16772071 Literally me

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 07:43:08 2020 No.16773853 >>16769002 I think you're pretty gay sir

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 07:53:00 2020 No.16773893 >>16769002 Anyone who did anything worthwhile with their life 40 years ago. Burroughs was instrumental in shaping cyberculture Now you're all phonebots with dragondildos so far up your asses you think you have brains

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 08:14:49 2020 No.16773982 >>16769068 It's cool. Ill paly LOL with you. What rank are you? Im plat 1 so we should have similar rank because I only play ranked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 08:44:38 2020 No.16774106 >>16773982 Anon, lol is for faggots

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 08:57:44 2020 No.16774158 >>16769002 Basically any contributor to early Industrial culture. As depraved as you can possibly imagine

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 08:59:26 2020 No.16774167 >>16773893 anything similar to WSB kind of prose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 09:03:28 2020 No.16774184 >>16774106 :3

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 09:04:16 2020 No.16774188 >>16772039 >Rimbaud says "if you only knew how fucking stupid you look standing there with that fish in your hand!" and Verlaine shoots him this sounds like a skit making fun of Marcel Duchamp.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 09:48:38 2020 No.16774447 >>16772039 Wtf is the Rimbaud shit real?

hungryman !!5BI0oSV9uvS Fri Nov 13 11:52:35 2020 No.16775289

>>16769002
I think Burroughs offers a ton of catharsis for pretty normal people, actually, who probably have healthy drug experimentation habits and decent lifestyles. The way he approaches degeneracy is never at the expense of some anger towards the world, there's very little in his books to convince you or persuade you that he's secretly noble-- which is pretty prevalent in a lot of addicts' novels. The objective coldness towards his lifestyle in Junkie, with little whining or martyrdom, makes it incredibly interesting and actually a little hard to relate to.

When I was at the zenith of my Burroughs phase, I think I was more drawn to him out of fascination than emulation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:08:37 2020 No.16775419 >>16775289 you digest writers through your 'phases'? if you are older than 21, pls slit your throat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:21:32 2020 No.16775525 >>16769002 A murdering junkie pederast who molests little brown catamites in liminal cities.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:42:28 2020 No.16775663 >>16772180 I don't like how known this makes me feel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:45:47 2020 No.16775688 >>16772047 A based one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:52:15 2020 No.16775730 >>16772047 Burroughs or Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:57:12 2020 No.16775767 >>16774167 Gibson and Ballard are kinda similar

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 12:57:24 2020 No.16775769 >>16775419 Oh fuck off and go read a book

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 13:36:58 2020 No.16776064 >>16770674 Kanye

Anonymous Fri Nov 13 13:43:22 2020 No.16776097

>>16769002
he was my favourite author at a point and i don't know how typical i was as a fan of him but here it was:
>drug addict
>rampant homosexual
>alcoholic
>simultaneously self important and self deprecating
>bulimic
>constantly intellectualizing
>fetishizing all of the above qualities
if burroughs is your favourite author, it gets better and i feel for you

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 13:50:15 2020 No.16776157 >>16769002 your average art-hoe wannabe…

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 14:20:52 2020 No.16776403 >>16769002 Me, five to ten years ago. Still like him a lot though, one of the few authors whose books I have re-read

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 14:21:55 2020 No.16776414 >>16776097 you missed >murderer >pedophile

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 14:23:26 2020 No.16776431 >>16769002 monkey man

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 15:23:30 2020 No.16776922 >>16776414 well i wasnt those things so i didn't miss them, dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 15:24:29 2020 No.16776932 >>16769002 A homosexual expat who lives in Morocco

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 15:28:14 2020 No.16776978 a troon

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 13 15:43:22 2020 No.16777105 File: 561 KB, 1933x1087, genesis-orridge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16774158

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