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Merry Christmas /lit/ ! Time for an interesting question: what letter of the alphabet has the best authors? (last name, eg. B for Bukowski, Baudrillard, etc.)

>> No.17114541

>>17114466
U!

get it? it's you anon :)

>> No.17114552

Fucking A

>> No.17114557

X, the official letter of black power

>> No.17114563

>>17114466
I am thinking N

>> No.17114582

>>17114466
> Borges
> Beckett
> Burgess
> Burroughs
> Barth
> Bely

>> No.17115048

>>17114466
j is the most aesthetic letter

>> No.17116453

>>17114563
I am thinking I

>> No.17116513

>>17116453
I prefer G

>> No.17116520

>>17114466
L is the best, I is the worst

>> No.17116528

>>17114466
W is witkiewicz
really cool feller

>> No.17116533
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>>17114466
X

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>>17114582
>Bely
Fantastic author, have you read Kotik Letaev?

>> No.17116835

>>17116513
G is fine by me

>> No.17116936

>>17116835
I'm an E kind of man

>> No.17116963

It is B. The b is strangely aesthetics, it's also the letter which has the best ratio of great writer per usage.
Just think about it: Borges, Baudelaire, Balzac, Beckett, Bachelard, Blake, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Byron, Beaumarchais, Baudrillard, Böll, Bradbury, Brontë, Bernanos, Bukowski, de Bergerac, Bacon, Breton, Bolaño, Bloy, Bulgakov, du Bellay, Brecht, Bonnefoy, Boccaccio, Bataille, Budé, Büchner, Blanchot, de Beauvoir, Baldwin, de La Boétie, Bossuet, Buzzati, Boileau, Burroughs, de La Bruyère, de Bonald, Bergson, Burgess, Barthes, Bruno, Brasillach, Baillie, etc.
In the others arts, many of the greats also have a name beginning with B: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Boulez, Bizet, Bartók, Bernstein, Brel, Brassens, Bergman, Bresson, Buñuel, Brueghel, Bacon, Blake, Bonnard, Botticelli, Bouguereau, Braque, Bloch, Basquiat, Boccioni, Bellini, Vigée Le Brun, Bruyn, etc.
B is the seventeenth most used letter in the alphabet, and the twentieth when taking usage into account.
How can we explain such correlation between genius and B since it can't be statistical? Is there some kind of magic with the letter B? Is there any anon with a family name beginning with B? Do you feel that you're different, superior even, to other people? Can one conjure this kind of magic by changing name or taking a pseudo?
What do you think? I feel like I've discovered a well kept secret. Is there any book about the magic of letters?

>> No.17117028

>>17116963
I’m OP and I literally got this idea for the thread after alphabetically rearranging my bookshelf today, and noticing the incredible number of B surname authors. Truly the best letter imo

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17117106

I really like the aesthetic of "X" and "T", but I'll go with "O", for it's the most basic form and it can encompass infinity into itself.

>> No.17117139

>>17116936
of R i am a big fan.

>> No.17117148

>>17117106
>it can encompass infinity into itself
What do you mean?

>> No.17117172

>>17117106
>O
origen fuck off

>> No.17117237

>>17117148
Pi is a number that never repeats itself, so every combination of number sequence is represented in it. If you use ASCII (1 = a, b = 2 etc.) instead of numbers, it means that everything possible is written inside of Pi. Every novel that has or will be written. And Pi is what but not a circle, an "O"?

>>17117172
>imagine not being an Ofag

>> No.17117798

>>17116559
I have not