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ITT: post about how you fuck with literary midwits
>That's all well and interesting, but have you read 1985?
>*snickers sententiously* Ummm, I think you meant Nineteen-Eighty-FOUR
>No. I meant what I said. Have you read 1985?
>Look, I think you're confused. The book is titled 1984...by George Orwell...
>No. I'm asking you about 1985 by Anthony Burgess.
>Who?
The best part is they walk away from that exchange thinking they are smarter than me and that I'm an idiot, but really they don't see I've been playing them like a fiddle for my own enjoyment.

>> No.21224496

This is OP's world and we are all just living in it

>> No.21224500

>>21224496
it's over

>> No.21224507

>>21224473
i am a midwit. so are you. not one person today doesn't know who anthony burgess is. if you know orwell, you know burgess.
hell, if you know KUBRICK, you know burgess.

here's how the conversation would ACTUALLY go, by the way:
>have you read 1985?
>you mean 1984?
>no, i mean 1985. anthony burgess wrote it kind of as a tribute to orwell's 1984 and explores similar themes throughout his narrative.
>wow. that's interesting. tell me more.
>???
>sex

>> No.21224511

>>21224507
I don't have sex with men

>> No.21224514

>>21224511
ngmi. 50% of all great writers were homosexuals

>> No.21224530

>Have you read LOTR, The Silmarillion or The Hobbit?
>No, but I've read The Kalevala
>*reeeee Tolkien didn't steal from Finns rreeee* *autistic schreeching

>> No.21224532

>>21224507
I unironically never heard of Burgess.

>> No.21224554

>>21224507
>t. the midwit whom OP used like a pawn after he went home and Googled "1985 by Anthony Burgess"

>> No.21224555

>>21224532
he wrote A Clockwork Orange. in 3 weeks. didn't really like it. kinda disowned it.

he's also the funniest motherfucker who ever lived. he reminds me of boris johnson

>> No.21224559

>>21224554
:( i'm a burgess fan

>> No.21224588

>>21224555
Enderby is great. Hopefully Boris Johnson ends up like Enderby.

>> No.21224757

>>21224530
Aren't Oin, Gloin, Durin, and all the other dwarves literally listed in the Kalevala with the same names (up to transliteration) and in the same order as Tolkien names them in the Hobbit? I remember seeing a graphic exposing Tolkien's hackery on this.

>> No.21224845

>talking to art hoe about books
>smugly ask if she's read 1985
>"i have! I found the satire to be quite humorous despite Burgess's political leanings. As much as I detest his thatcherisms I still enjoyed the take on orwell."
>i laugh nervously as i'm taken aback. the wikipedia page made no mention of thatcher
>she continues. "have you read his essay on reactionary radicals? it really puts the whole thing into context."
>my heart is racing at this point and i have no idea what she's talking about
>pretend to receive a phone call and leave with tears welling

>> No.21224864

>>21224514
name three(3)

>> No.21224912

>>21224845
hearty kek

>> No.21224988

>>21224864
Ernest Hemmingway
TS Eliot
Emily Dickinson

>> No.21224997

>>21224845
> the wikipedia page made no mention of thatcher

topkek lad

>> No.21225038

>>21224473
>1985
How is it?

>> No.21225042

>>21224757
I just bought the first issue of Heavy Metal and there's an interview in which he himself says something similar

>> No.21225062

>>21224530
>he's still on about this

>> No.21225151

>>21224845
That's not how that would go. I would respond as such
>Don't you also think Burgess take on the future of Islam was high prescient? Not only in regards to Britain but to all of Europe? Perhaps 1985 was a small influence on Houellebecq's Soumission

>> No.21225457

I never heard of it until now
Is it good

>> No.21225485

>>21224473
I am a literary midwit.

>> No.21225540

>>21225457
Yes it's fairly good. Burgess in general is a great writer, who is often overshadowed by the giants of British literature

>> No.21225599

>>21225540
I'll check it out
Thanks anon

>> No.21225775

>>21224473
>>That's all well and interesting, but have you read 1985?
>Uh, no? What's that about
>blah blah blah literary nonsense
>yeah nah I mostly read sci-fi and japanese light novels
>heh this pleb must feel so dumb right now
>so how many books do you read in a year you think
>I read 50, peon
>oh, I read that many in like a month, you should really check out LNs they're great
I think I did this exercise wrong. Oh well back to reading Azarinth Healer.

>> No.21225811

>>21225775
BASED

>> No.21225835

>>21224473
Based frogchad.

>> No.21225859

>>21224473
onions

>> No.21226591

>>21224845
kek'd

>> No.21227042

>>21224864
pynchon
wallace
your dad

>> No.21227081

>>21224473
haha this is me! I've been spamming it for weeks, good to see it's spawned a thread
love you OP

>> No.21227612

>>21225042
Wait what. Isn't Tolkien dead by the time Heavy Metal starts.