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What five authors would you like to sit down and have dinner with? (living or dead)

>> No.2472929

Camus, Nabokov, Sartre, Kafka, and Vonnegut.

>> No.2472932

Paul the Apostle

Kafka

Mark Twain

David Foster Wallace

Tolkien

>> No.2472933

Tolkien, Camus, Hemingway, Terry Goodkind, annnnd... Pynchon. Pynchon would probably be fun.

>> No.2472936

kafka
bukowski
camus
burroughs
pynchon

not necessarily my favourite, but certainly the most interesting (imo)

>> No.2472939

Tolkien II
Kafka III
CamusIII
PynchonII

>> No.2472937

Tolkien II
Kafka II
CamusII

>> No.2472945

Dead authors would not be very good to have dinner with.

Tao Lin
Harold Bloom
Naomi Klein
Ann Coulter
Salman Rushdie

I would serve all vegan food, but cooked in such a way that they assume it's not. I'd also make the Cooking with Tao Lin salad and smoothies for appetizers.

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Paine
Hitchens
Chomsky
Herzen
Arendt
and Buckley

Watch as Buckley's brain fries.

>> No.2472947

>>2472943
> Chomsky

Why? he'd be boring as fuck.

>> No.2472951

>>2472943
thats 6 you fuck tard

>> No.2472952

>>2472945
> Naomi Klein

Jesus Christ. This place...

I hope you have ovaries.

>> No.2472954

Homer
The author of the best stories from the Torah
The author of the Bhagavad Gita
Plato
Tao Lin

>> No.2472955

>>2472952
I don't think you appreciate the dynamic of my dinner guests.

>> No.2472956
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>>2472947
With all of them there you'd get a good mix going. I know he's dry but he's stimulating

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>>2472943
>Chomsky
I'd eat it with him at Hooters maybe.

Joyce
Eliot
Shakespeare
Byron
Wordsworth

>> No.2472963

>>2472932
DFW would probably admonish you for bad grammar.


Guys that say Camus, can he speak English? Can he cook French food

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>>2472952
That's a troll son.

>>2472925
Come to think of it, I'd want to invite quite a large party

>> No.2472964

>>2472952
You thinking of Naomi Wolf?

>> No.2472970

Tolkien II
Kafka III
CamusIII
Pynchon II
Lin II

>> No.2472972

William Shakespeare
Harold Bloom

Just so I could watch Bloom go nuts.

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>>2472958
>tfw having a night on the town with Byron
You'd get all his leftover pussy, and probably have some weird orgy with him in an opium den.

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>>2472932
Dead silence till Twain and Wallace start arguing

>> No.2472980

DFW
Pynchon
Gibson
Geisel (Dr. Suess)
And Joyce.

They're not even particularly the most interesting writers or people, but they've all got interesting ideas about society and language, and don't come of as douchebags. That's probably the issue with some of the best writers; not all of them care enough to be well-adjusted socially, especially if they intellectually dwarf everyone around them.

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> that feel when you pour bukowski a beer
> that feel when you hand burroughs a young boy for dessert
> that feel when you cut into your medium rare steak with camus whilst discussing the absurd
> that feel when you do a few lines with hunter s thompson between meals

>> No.2472988

>>2472980
im pretty sure DFW would intellectually dwarf all of us.

>> No.2472991

Vonnegut, Heinlein, Herbert, Ralph Ellison, Itoi

>> No.2472994

Just our of interest, are the people choosing Kafka homosexual?

>> No.2472995

>>2472965
>That's a troll son.
If I were trolling it'd be more like:
J K Rowling
Stephen King
Michiko Kakutani
Douglas Adams
Woody Allen

>> No.2473002

Rowling
Meyer
Collins
(lemony) Snicket
Rowling

>> No.2473005

>>2472988
Yeah, he's not very smart

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>>2472988

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>>2472955

>> No.2473041

Aldous Huxley, Hunter Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, HP Lovecraft

>> No.2473073
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Celine, Aurelius, Anton-Wilson, Miller, Sartre.

>> No.2473074

Graham Greene
Flannery O'Connor
William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
JRR Tolkien

>> No.2473077

authors of all the major religious works from all the main world religions, and have a good laugh about how they all wrote them as fiction.

atheistfag

>> No.2473083

>>2473077

edgy as fuck, bro.

> can't comprehend atheist's are just as bad as religious nut jobs.

>> No.2473090

>>2473077
>>2473083
samefags are hilarious

>> No.2473089

Proust, Frank Kuppner, Kafka, Roger-Pol Droit, Jostein Gaarder (They're all deep and mad philosophers and I love them excessively)

>> No.2473104

>>2473090

you might want to re-consider your accusation.

>> No.2473108

>>2473090
why would someone disagree with his or her self?

>> No.2473117

Joyce, Pushkin, Lermontov, Hemingway and Cortazar. What do you think?

>> No.2473125

>>2473108
Good point, people are always totally truthful and self-consistent.

>> No.2473142

Alfred Jarry
Gerard de Nerval
Oscar Wilde
Lord Byron
Paul Scheerbart

It would be the most eccentric dinner ever.

>> No.2473162

joyce carol oates
bret easton ellis
apostle luke
king david
shakespeare

>> No.2473188

>>2473142
someone needs to be replaced with marquis de sade

>> No.2473209

>>2473188
Still be more gay than eccentric.

>> No.2473440

Dorothy Parker
G.K. Chesterton
Thomas Pynchon
Junichiro Tanizaki
Donna Tartt

That dinner would be witty as fuck.


captcha: subsoldr process,

>> No.2473446

>>2473209
Nah. All of those authors were eccentric, but not all were gay or bisexual. Scheerbart and Jarry were mostly asexual, even.

>> No.2473453

Harold Bloom
DFW
Pynchon
Hunter S. Thompson
Tao Lin

Just imagining the shitstorm that would ensue is hilarious.

>> No.2473459

Mark Twain
Carl Sandburg
David McCullough
Robert Caro
Robert Frost
>omplying I could hold a conversation in any other language, especially if it was with someone extraordinarily well versed in that language

>> No.2473457

Hemmingway
Fitzgerald
H.S. Thompson
Vonnegutt
Rynd

entry level all over the fucking place I love my english lit courses am I deep and edgy yet?

>> No.2473490

I'd sit P. Neruda across from J.L. Borges
Angelica Gorosdicher next to T.S. Geisel.
And Elena Walsh with a plate of oranges and a bottle of something strong.

And then sit back and watch the wtfery unfold.

>> No.2473492

>>2473453

What I wouldn't pay to see this.

>> No.2473513

>>2473453
I would imagine every few minutes or so Tao Lin would mumble something awkward under his breath and everyone would look at him.

>> No.2473521

Hunter S Thompson, drunk from pre gaming starts it all off by asking how everyone lost their virginity. Pynchon and DFW amuse each other via long winded diatribes about technology and Ley lines while Bloom rolls his eyes and gulps mountain dew laced with vodka. Tao Lin picks nervously at his organic spinach salad as the flop sweat gathers on his brow...

>> No.2473525

Antonin Artaud
Schopenhauer
Salvador Dalí
Tristan Tzara
Wittgenstein

>> No.2473543

>>2473513
>DFW and Bloom get into an argument in regards to that footnote in Infinite Jest
>Hunter S. Thompson shows up drunk/under the influence and starts yelling incoherently
>Pynchon finally steps forward and defends Bloom, reprimands DFW for being so derivative
>Tao Lin cries in the corner
>The night ends with DFW hanging himself, Bloom falling asleep at the dinner table, Pynchon disappearing into the night, and Tao Lin being taken for a ride in HST's red convertible

>> No.2473863

Isaac Asimov
David Foster Wallace
Stephen King
Mario Vargas Llosa
Margaret Atwood

>> No.2473865

Homer
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Duc de Saint-Simon
Proust

>> No.2473866

Adolf Hitler, 5x

>> No.2473871

Conan Doyle
Stephanie Meyer
Agatha Christie
Shakespear
Salinger

And then we plan how to kill Stephanie

>> No.2473873

>>2473866

AUTHOR

>> No.2473876

>>2473873

Ever heard of a book called Mein Kampf?

>> No.2473893

Proust
Camus
Nietzsche, pre-insanity.
Wilde
Shakespeare

>> No.2473895
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Camus
Cormac McCarthy
Lautréamont
Kafka
Kenzaburo Oe

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>>2472925
Beckett
Hemingway
Noah Cicero
Sam pink
Elrend Loe

>>2473871
The only people who complain about Stephenie Meyer are neckbeards and kids.
Seriously, she is a bad writer, but there are many others. Just because she is making money doesn't mean shit. I bet you bitch about bieber too. You people are the worst.

>> No.2473906

>>2473893
Not wanting t hang out with post-insanity neechuh, this guy man, he's doing it wrong.

>> No.2473907

Tillich, so I can punch him in the face.

>> No.2473908

beckett
borges
lowry
desani
dogen

>> No.2473914

Schopenhauer
Hegel
Lovecraft
Camus
Poe

mite b cool

>> No.2473915
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Camus
Kafka
Bukowski and Kerouac (they would bring the booze)
Murakami
Maybe Borges???

>> No.2473964

Joyce

Hemmingway

Schiller

Hunter S. Thompson

Douglas Adams

>> No.2473981

>>2473915
They would leech the booze or leave upon finding you had none

>> No.2473992

>>2473981
truth

>> No.2474006

Glenn Beck
Thomas Paine
Ayn Rand
Karl Marx
... I don't know who else, but it would a fun dinner.

>> No.2474032

Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Douglas Adams
Jacques Cousteau
Charles Darwin

Because I'd love to see the ever stoic Richard Dawkins piss his pants with excitement.

>> No.2474072

>>2474032

>dawkins
>stoic

wat.

>> No.2474469

Boris Vian
Jean-Paul Sartre
Chuck Palanhiuk
François Rabelais
René Descartes

Poetry-wise:
Baudelaire
Molière
Racine
Whitman
Wilde

>> No.2474479

Assuming everyone could speak English...

Milton
Samuel Johnson
Hitchens
Dostoevsky
Kafka

>> No.2476068

rollins, the dalai lama, burgess, dawkins, hawkins

>> No.2476115

Hemingway.

I'd ask him to get me some pre-ban absinthe
Discussing with authors over dinner, seriously? They write books for a reason. Because they are not interesting to listen to especially not when I'm eating.

>> No.2476117

Vonnegut
Pynchon
Orwell
Aleister Crowley
Hunter S Thompson

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>>2473440
>Dorothy Parker and G.K. Chesterton get into a quip-off.
>Thomas Pynchon has an acid flashback, runs about in starkers
>Tanizaki jerks off
>Tartt tries to sacrifice dinner in ancient ritual

>>2473543
I lol'd hard.

I'd want to get Fitzgerald and Hemingway together, let's put an to this "who could drink more" question.

>> No.2476243

Fitzgerald
Agatha Christie
Poe
Vonnegut
Lovecraft

Because why not.

>> No.2476253

Ghandi
Einstein
Nietzche
Plato
Vonnegut

>> No.2476391

bukowski
William burroughs
fitzgerald
vonnegut
norman mailer

>> No.2476431

Pat Buchanan
Chomsky
Mark Twain
Jefferson
Ann Coulter

>> No.2476442

>>2476243
Lovecraft would make that dinner so awkward.

>>"Does anyone else here feel an unrequited and thrice-damned love for their own aunt? Naturally and most assuredly this is hypothetical, but when the screams of an autumn air thrum my pane, I think only of my aunties, and women like them..."
>> Poe: Quiet shot of bourbon
>> Agatha: "Well look at the time..."
>> Vonnegut: "Brother, you are one fucked up fellow..."

>> No.2476448

>>2476442
Exactly why I'd invite him! Hilarity would ensue, and Fitzgerald would put the radio on full blast blaring jazz.

>> No.2476492

>>2474006
This, only also with Charles Dickens.

>> No.2476553

Twain
Vonnegut
Kafka
Woolf
Joyce
Best dinner party or best dinner party?

>> No.2476562

Sylvia Plath, I heard she bakes well n_n

>> No.2476593

Albert Camus
Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Steinbeck
John Tyerman Williams
Raymond Chandler

>> No.2476602

Marx, Foucault, Antonio Negri, Badiou, Deleuze

>> No.2476607

Shakespeare
Goethe
Aristotle
Voltaire
Schopenhauer

>> No.2476624

>>2476562
ugh, i hate smoking with chicks like her

>> No.2476775

Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Shit would be crazy.

>> No.2476786

Octavio Paz
Julio Cortázar
Jorge Luis Borges
Pablo Neruda
Roberto Bolaño