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Who are the most unfortunately unattractive authors ever?
Does being ugly have any correlation with being a great literary mind?
Pic related, it’s John Updike

>> No.18178312

What's Updike? Nothing much, how about you?

>> No.18178316

>>18178305
He’s a caricature of a WASP. He is doomed to be forgotten.

>> No.18178360

>>18178305
Pynchon. It's not surprising he is a recluse

>> No.18178362
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18178362

Go on

>> No.18178366

>>18178360

how come an ugly awkward hikki schizo loser got married and im sitting here feeling like im drowning from lack of a woman's love

>> No.18178372

Actually, don't a decent amount of great writers wind up being pretty handsome?

Look at Melville, that man is a fucking Chad god.

>> No.18178383

>>18178366
>drowning from lack of a woman's love

get off /lit/. seeing all the disgusting comments about women and then also pining for them is bad for your soul and your penis

>> No.18178392

>>18178312
Fuck, this got me.

>> No.18178402

>>18178305
My diary desu

>> No.18178442

>>18178305
Dat nose

>> No.18178507 [SPOILER] 
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18178507

Sartre in his old days ended up in literal abomination levels

>> No.18178569
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18178569

is ginsberg the ugliest author?

>> No.18178588

>>18178372
Most American writers are pretty handsome desu.

>> No.18178628

>>18178507
Jesus!

>> No.18178629

>>18178305
He's 84 in that pic, and considering that he doesn't look half bad.

>> No.18178687

>>18178629
Updike was remarkably successful with women so mah ...

>> No.18178693

>>18178569
he had an ugly soul as well as an ugly face

>> No.18178698

>>18178588
Hemingway can get it, at any age. He was handsome as a young man and he was handsome as an old man too.

>> No.18178709

>>18178305
What about smokin' hot John Cheever, your theory is rebuked.

>> No.18178726

>>18178569
A blind polynesian who has never heard of jews would know even this kike is a jew

>> No.18178918
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18178918

Thomas Pynchon

>> No.18180196

>>18178507
Mon dieu, la créature

>> No.18180220

>>18178507
>Has 3 of his teeth replaced with corn kernels

>> No.18180331

>>18178305
Alan Dershowitz is so fucking ugly he is hard to look at

>> No.18180334

>>18178305
Hegel

>> No.18180856

>>18178507
He was also 5 ft tall

>> No.18181070

>>18178709
haha more like Dong Squeezer, amirite lads

>> No.18181131

>>18178569
Ultimate Jewish neurosis

>> No.18181222

>>18181070
>>18181070
Fuck OFF, Updike