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3694495 No.3694495 [Reply] [Original]

There has never been a good self-insert except john proctor aka arthur miller.
Or am I wrong?
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>> No.3694500

David Copperfield

and most of Vonnegut

>> No.3694512

>>3694500
Good point, haven't thought of those guys yet
Although Vonnegut kind of mixes self-insert and appearencea of the author in breakfast of champions

>> No.3694518

The author in A Clockwork Orange?

>> No.3694534

>>3694518
I don't know enough about anthony burgess to say that, but it might be true

>> No.3694636

>>3694495
Horselover Fat in Valis

>> No.3694647

Lanark's self-insert is fucking shit

All of them

>> No.3694694

>>3694636
this guy is right

>> No.3694724

>>3694636
What a stupid name

>> No.3694735

>>3694724
It just means Philip Dick

>> No.3694765

John Proctor was a real person, though.

>> No.3696170

Martin's Anus