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19937791

Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:10:10 2022 No.19937791 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking for wit. Witty authors. Witty works. Or smug. Smug would be fun as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:11:31 2022 No.19937796 My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber is one of the few truly funny books ever written. Very witty and charming.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:12:13 2022 No.19937798 >>19937791 dead souls

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:14:00 2022 No.19937808 >>19937796 Thanks, it is rare to get a genuinely unique recommendation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:20:40 2022 No.19937839 Kharms and Berman

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:22:25 2022 No.19937848 >>19937791 Thomas Bernhard is smugly witty

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:22:45 2022 No.19937849 >>19937791 MDM-DR

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:24:43 2022 No.19937854 >>19937849 misspelled that *MNM-DR

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:25:14 2022 No.19937855 Has anyone read gk chesterton? Is he witty?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:33:33 2022 No.19937885 >>19937791 All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 22:56:47 2022 No.19937979 File: 93 KB, 600x600, ignatius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19937791 A Confederacy of Dunces

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 23:08:52 2022 No.19938026 >>19937855 Chesterton is a massive akshuallyfag.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 23:11:16 2022 No.19938037 >>19937791 Nabokov. Smug af and very witty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 16 23:18:26 2022 No.19938080 Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 00:13:58 2022 No.19938332 >>19937791 Voltaire is the obvious one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:32:58 2022 No.19938636 >Ctrl F "Jonathan Swift" >No results I'm disappointed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:34:59 2022 No.19938639 >>19938636 Why? We were waiting for you <3

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:35:00 2022 No.19938640 File: 136 KB, 1400x788, johnson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19937791 samuel johnson

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:37:25 2022 No.19938646 File: 415 KB, 1991x2560, 81f34eTmjdL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19937791 Calvin and Hobbes unironically.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:38:50 2022 No.19938652 File: 145 KB, 1200x1200, 5700.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19937791 Will Self. Doesn't the photo just scream smug and witty?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 01:45:57 2022 No.19938668 >>19937791 Svejk

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 03:29:12 2022 No.19938872 >>19938636 A modest proposal was quite funny

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 11:14:39 2022 No.19940470 File: 21 KB, 246x360, Uncle Von.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] PKD for wit Vonnegut for smug

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 15:11:51 2022 No.19941823 >>19937791 the psmith series by pg wodehouse

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 15:56:11 2022 No.19942081 >>19938636 This

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 17 19:03:21 2022 No.19943384 bumping out of interest desu