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20383238 No.20383238 [Reply] [Original]

Any non-fiction book about town losers (not necessarily drunks)? You the know the type: unemployed and virtually unemployable, no relationship history to speak of etc

>> No.20383283

My diary

>> No.20383285

>>20383238
your diary desu

>> No.20383317

>>20383238
Closest I can recall is the gambler and that's not really an accurate description.

>> No.20383497

Pynchon sorta

>> No.20383501

> no relationship history to speak of
I wish I was naive enough to think that this is a bad thing

>> No.20383521

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHxxbcI8g6A

not a book but it's based on a play so it's sort of literary adjacent maybe

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20384178

>Any non-fiction book about town losers (not necessarily drunks)? You the know the type: unemployed and virtually unemployable, no relationship history to speak of etc

Confederacy if Dunces. Instead of being a drunken loser though, Ignatius is an over-educated loser

>> No.20384182

>>20384178
Confederacy of Dunces, my bad for the typo

>> No.20384196

>>20383497
yeah vineland hits that town drunk kinda style.
i guess the first part of VALIS has a pretty "town drunk" as it's main character (Horselover Fats)