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Is there any prominent writer, philosopher, or thinker with which you identify on a very personal level? In other words, have they somehow influenced the way you live your life on a daily basis? I know it's possible to entertain the ideas of a crazy ass motherfucker who wrote books a couple hundred years ago, but there's a difference between that and actual emotional-personal identification.

Pic most definitely related.

>> No.1749125

Me and Shakespeare are tight.

ujelly?

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>>1749125
Cool bro.

>> No.1749150

funny you posted Whitman, cause I'd say Whitman. I fucking love that man.

He was just a lonely guy, who couldn't bring himself to actually have sex with anyone but wanted to love everyone all the same. Had a pretty tough early life (lots of deaths in his family) but then went on to embrace life entirely by ingeniously re-writing himself into his poetry.

I'm gay for Whitman.

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>> No.1749155

The Doctor.

>Seuss

>> No.1749167

Marshal Mathers

It's like we live the same life. Mah nigga

>> No.1749170

The Mad Magazine Usual Gang of Idiots

>> No.1749178

Philosopher: effing none of them stupid I hate philosophy

>> No.1749182

the Yahwist

>> No.1749187

Bernhard Riemann - unfortunately I have none of his ability, but I'm working on it.

>> No.1749190

I find Camus' philosophy to be very beautiful, and it has been quite influential on my worldview.

>> No.1749193

Man, I fucking love Whitman. The more I read about his actual life and the image he presents of himself in his work, the more I love him. You know he wrote fake reviews of his work, promoting himself? Fascinating.

Borges has a really good lecture the difference between the "real" Whitman and the poetic Whitman. There's only two other authors that I feel have re-written their lives as brilliantly as Whitman and that's Proust and Shakespeare.

Proust re-wrote himself as a male lesbian (he was gay irl) and there's Shakespeare who took his rather bland, uneventful life, his unknown identity and re-wrote himself into everyone and no one at the same time. God-tier shit, right there.

here's the Borges lecture on Whitman
http://www.2shared.com/document/cAEPYJx8/Borges_-_Whitman.html

>> No.1749194

Montaigne

>> No.1749224

I feel like I would have a good time hanging out with Derrida and Cioran

>> No.1749229

i think hemingway and me would be tight. that and becket.

>> No.1749234

I act like Socrates a lot, often to my own detriment.

>> No.1749237

>>1749193
i relate so much to proust in that way. when i was a budding teenaged gaylord all i wanted was to be a riot grrrl

>> No.1749253

H.D.T.

>> No.1749262

>>1749237
Good stuff, man. I feel like I do relate as well to Proust, but his fictional self. Reading In Search of Lost Time really made me more aware of the subtleties of my own sexuality and my relationships with women. I'm not gay but in a lot of ways I see myself as a kind of male lesbian. I'm not really effeminate, but I really just enjoy the company of women. Anyway, it sounds gay as fuck and I guess it is, I'm going to shut up now because I'm stoned and probably embarrassing myself.

But Proust knows my love better than anyone and for that I love him.

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>> No.1749293

OP here. I'm appreciating the feedback on Whitman. Yeah, he was complicated as fuck. His ideas did not necessarily correspond to his own life because they really transcended what he was materially capable of. Kinda similar to Emerson in that way. The man could project things into your heart and mind, but they didn't necessarily apply to his own life.

>>1749152
Well hey he looks kinda like me.

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i relate to and base my life around every writer i love

because when i'm reading their words, i feel like i'm thinking it

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1749309

Most of the time, when reading Mencken, I felt like I should reach back through time and space and brofist the man. They don't make journalists like him anymore.

>> No.1749317

>>1749293
Yeah, he wanted to attain the same things he tried to project onto his readers. Fuck, Whitman is impossible to express in words, he was right.

He makes complete sense in some pre-language part of my mind but as soon as I try to explain it it breaks down and I end up sounding corny as fuck.

Whatever, I love Whitman.

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>> No.1749384

>>1749302
MAX STIRNER REPRESENT

>> No.1749393

>>1749194
This. I feel like Montaigne is my bro.

>> No.1749706
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1749706

Hunter s thompson, we share the same diet;

- wake up at 3:00 am
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
-cocaine
-cocaine
- orange juice
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- iced tea
- cocaine
- some weed to take the edge off
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- etc
- dinner
- snorting cocaine seriously
- acid
- mmmmmm bit more acid
- cocaine
- cocaine
- cocaine
- 12:00 - ready to begin writing
- porn
- cocaine
- porn
- porn
- cocaine
-cocaine
- porn
- halycon
- 9:00 pm - sleep

wash rinse and repeat

>> No.1749720

>>1749706
hey your cocaine joke is really very funny.
its like he does a lot of cocaine.
and also like you do too.
is joke
is laugh

>> No.1749736

Kierkegaard.

>> No.1749739
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Ödön von Horvath

never saw him discussed here, higly recommended

>> No.1749747

Kafka (whiny jew) and Kierkegaard (angsty dane)
All kidding aside, I do identify with writers who experience the universe, world and human condition as something fundamentally strange, maybe even fucked up, and express that through some manner of bullshitty angst. I also, like Hemingway, feel that I am crushed by the sheer weight of my own intellect. But then again, all I know is that I don't know nothing.
Troll or legitimate strange guy? Take your guesses, /lit/.
and not a single fuck was given that day

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>>1749736

I second that. Soren Kierkegaard and me would probably be the bestest of bros if he was alive.

>> No.1749751
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1749751

This guy right here.

>> No.1749759

>>1749114
Seconding Whitman

>> No.1749764

>>1749747
>Kafka
>Kierkegaard
>Hemingway
>the universe is fundamentally strange

Are you me?

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>>1749747
>>1749764
>completely generic opinion and views every semi well-read 18yr old has
>are you me?

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>>1749114

John Locke of course.

>> No.1749801
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1749801

This guy

>> No.1749825

Frank Herbert... I think it is a PacNW thing, but everything he conveys; The philosophical, religious, Even the matriarchal fear... especially if you take the view that Leto was his mouthpiece in God emperor, then... it is like he spoke directly to my soul.

>> No.1749859

Intellectual World View: Richard Rorty
Spiritual World View: Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> No.1749869
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1749869

This fucker

>> No.1749887

Answer this question, honestly, are u all gay? I have read the first 6 posts and it seem u all are.

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>>1749887
Only for you, sugar plum.

>> No.1749943

>>1749750
Third. I actually told my friend how deeply moved I was by his works, and he said that I should be able to identify with him on a very personal level because both us will never get pussy. ;_;

>> No.1749945

Alexander Pope

>> No.1749946

Thoreau.

>> No.1749947

OP checking back in. Glad to see this thread is doing well. Y'all are giving me some good reading material.

>> No.1749955

>>1749271
my best friend from college id'ed herself as "larry david in a black woman's body" in a post on our class orientation message board and I thought it was just a *~sO qUiRkY~* piece of myspace "about me" flair, but it turned out to be terrifyingly accurate

>> No.1749983

Georges Bataille

no fessin'

>> No.1749986

>>1749983
I love Bataille, but I can't really identify with him personally. Maybe because I have heard that all of his personal accounts were bullshit he made up (like having a syphilitic and blind father). I honestly identify with Kerouac most, even though for this reason I've come to dislike his writing (because I have lived a life very similar to his--both the literary and factual) and I guess what happened is that I was inspired by his work as a teenager, pursued this lifestyle and the outcome was not as great as it sounded in his books, go figure. The major factor, I believe, is that there was not as much police repression in his time as there is today.

>> No.1749998

>>1749938

It's a serious question, not trolling. Cause sometimes i have that impression, that most men that like literature are gay.

>> No.1750928
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Kurt Vonnegut

>> No.1750959

>>1749150
>I'm gay for Whitman.

Funny you say that, because...
>He was just a lonely guy, who couldn't bring himself to actually have sex with anyone but wanted to love everyone all the same.

Is wrong. He fucked a lot of dudes. Sorry you can't read.

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Durden.

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>> No.1750989

>>1750972

You're doing it wrong!

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The Sheen

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The Sheen

>> No.1751016
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Milton for me.

>> No.1751020

Seconding Milton.

>> No.1751022

Vonnegut, Vonnegut and more Vonnegut.

>> No.1751115

I'm almost shy to post a picture of Nietzsche...

>> No.1751185
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1751185

I've never read an author who appealed to my mind as much as Henry David Thoreau.

>> No.1752377

bump

>> No.1752746

>>1751185

really dull writer and thinker ^


i prefer Stirner and Kierkegaard

>> No.1752751

>>1751185
Ever read Marcus Aurelius?

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>>1752751
Marcus is a bro, through and through.

>> No.1752854

Bukowski and Cormac McCarthy

>> No.1752871

>>1749190
Agreed.

Camus to my world view. On a different level, Rimbaud too.

>> No.1752893

>>1749193
Whitman samefag'd his own threads lol. He was a cool guy nonetheless.

>> No.1752897

>>1749271
Oh yes. Fucking social norms!

>> No.1752900

bloody mary

>> No.1752913

>>1749998
This board isn't all men

>> No.1752929

>>1752913
you're right, only 85-90%

i'd guesstimate the board breaks down about 35% gay men, 50% straight men, 12% straight women, 3% lesbian

>> No.1752943

>>1752929
That seems about right, but since this board only has two people, I'm not sure what that means.

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OP hurr again. I like this thread.

Here's an interesting article about how David Hume's philosophical ideas to some extent corresponded with his own life decisions. I suppose the man lead by example?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/opinion/07zaretsky.html?_r=1&hp

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>> No.1753367

>>1752746
read thoreau after you graduate from college or move out of your parents' house.

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This motherfucker, right here.

>> No.1754445

>>1753372
lol yes