Tao lin is going to be visiting my university next month. Wat do?

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Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:32:00 2013 No.4072534 [Reply] [Original]

Tao lin is going to be visiting my university next month.

Wat do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:36:59 2013 No.4072542 do nothing

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:36:59 2013 No.4072543 >>4072534 Give him a whole foods gift card

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:37:59 2013 No.4072544 >>4072534 go and tell him he is shit, I got thrown out of one of his readings this way when he came to my university and the dean was pissed but it was worth it

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:37:59 2013 No.4072545 Question the value/worth of your university and shop around for a better one to transfer to.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:40:00 2013 No.4072547 >>4072544 Greentext it pls

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:41:00 2013 No.4072550 expect a reading like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcOK2T0lPo I haven't read the dude's work, but it was pretty hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:45:59 2013 No.4072555 Spit on the cunt

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:46:59 2013 No.4072558 >>4072544 lel U serious? If yes then you are my new hero.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:47:59 2013 No.4072560 Ask him a question in a monotone voice and go off on irrelevant tangents while asking the question, qualifying every word and then walk out of the room as he begins to answer it

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 09:52:59 2013 No.4072569 Gwine ahp ta im and se "I'm being normal right now!"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 10:03:00 2013 No.4072594 Don't go out of your way to hear him speak or see him, but if you do happen to see him just look at him in disgust.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 10:12:59 2013 No.4072608 >>4072560 This.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 10:19:59 2013 No.4072616

"So, um, Mr. Lin, uh, could you I guess, 'quantify' (However much you can "quantify" literature and other arts) what you meant when you wrote, or imagined, or thought the line about how it felt like Paul was not "walking on the sidewalk," but rather "moving through the universe" or something?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 11:18:59 2013 No.4072753 >>4072534 Ask him how he got his shitty personality.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 11:28:59 2013 No.4072781 Tell him that, as a fellow autistic novelist, you sympathize with him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:17:00 2013 No.4072905 >>4072550 is this guy autistic?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:29:59 2013 No.4072912 Just shout out "and but so" at random intervals

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:29:59 2013 No.4072915 kill him

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:32:59 2013 No.4072924

You klnow the autism thing is an act right? I also sometimes feel that some people here don't get that the writing is terrible on purpose. It's so obvious but rather than disliking him for his work being funny and not much else you guys are always like, "Omg worst writer ever how can someone read this shit"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:35:59 2013 No.4072926 Clearly the thing to do is to yell "Tao go to bed"

>>	Fandroid !p6ktXMpsfc Fri Aug 30 12:41:59 2013 No.4072935 >>4072905 No he's normal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw&t=9m20s >>4072924 I think he's sincere. No one can fake being awkward and monotone. There's no point in him being an "act".

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:46:00 2013 No.4072944 he is so pretentious. he thinks he's some kind of genius. what a lame person.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:50:59 2013 No.4072951 >>4072534 ask him: so when are you going to write a poem dedicated to /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:51:59 2013 No.4072953 >>4072935 It's not hard, I know he has a normal social life and having a persona sells books so there's a pretty big point.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 12:53:59 2013 No.4072955

Go and listen to him and ask him meaningful questions. I imagine he is getting annoyed by any other ideas that surrounds. In one interview I saw there was only one person who asked deep interesting questions and Tao clung on to that person, giving interesting answers for pretty much the whole talk... the other question was like about his sweater

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:23:59 2013 No.4072994 The voice of a generation™

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:47:59 2013 No.4073045
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>>4072547

not that exciting really

>hear tao lin is speaking at my university
>nobody really knows who he is so there is very little buzz, my intro to lit professor was like, go for extra credit but obviously didn't give a shit
>I decide to show up and tell him he is shit
>night of reading its in a small stage/cafe thing I walk in and sit up front
>lots of hipster chicks I've never seen on campus, this is when sfaa came out, this is going to be good
>he starts reading some shit
>I say "You're a faggot"
>Tao kind of stops confused but keeps going crowd is like wut? but i don't think many people heard.
>I say it louder "You are a FAGGOT"
>tao stops and looks at one of the organizers who comes and asks me to leave while hipster chicks are now booing me presumably because of muh gay rights
>kind of awkward once we get outside, this prof tells me to leave and then goes back in
>I leave and no real consequences, i didn't know anyone at the reading, the dean sends me an email saying that sort of conduct is unacceptable, don't know how he got my name.

>mfw I fucked up tao lins world and he probably still thinks about it, totally worth it

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:48:59 2013 No.4073048 >>4073045 what are tao lins religious beliefs? inb4 atheist

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:50:59 2013 No.4073053 >>4073048 idk what does that have to do with it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:51:59 2013 No.4073055 >>4073053 you posted a pope, so i wondered.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:53:59 2013 No.4073060 >>4072534 Say hello from us (& B polite!)

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 13:58:00 2013 No.4073066 >>4073048 probably some chinese thing like taoism

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:01:59 2013 No.4073077 Is Tao the good kind of Internet fad or the bad kind?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:02:59 2013 No.4073079 >>4073077 He's the good kind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:06:00 2013 No.4073089 >>4073079 Go to bed

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:07:00 2013 No.4073094 >>4073089 It's not my bedtime yet.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:10:00 2013 No.4073101

I recommend a bowie knife through the ribs.
I recommend training on a pig.
Just get a pig torso at the butcher.

Don't stab many times like those amateurs you see on TV.
More isn't better. 30 stabs is just pathetic when you can do the job with one clean well placed stab.

You might want to turn the blade though.
If he still squirms you gotta stab a second time but make sure you do it right this time.

It's also very important that you play a David Bowie song will you stab him.

If you want you can shout "The next day we ate Lin." while you're running away multiple times.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:10:00 2013 No.4073102 >>4073045 damn dude youre super cool

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:11:00 2013 No.4073104 >>4073101 >If you want you can shout "The next day we ate Lin." dumb post but this made me smirk hard

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:11:00 2013 No.4073105 >>4073045 That actually sounds kinda lame.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:14:59 2013 No.4073114 >>4073405 wow what a protest

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:15:59 2013 No.4073118 >>4073045 Tao Lin wrote about you: "Brooklyn – Spoonbill & Sugartown Someone asked something like if I was autistic or retarded. I didn’t hear, or clearly hear, the first time, and when he repeated the question I think he said ‘are you retarded?’"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:19:59 2013 No.4073127 >>4073045 I call bullshit

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:20:59 2013 No.4073131 >>4073102 fuck off what would you have done?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:32:59 2013 No.4073150 >>4073131 Enjoy Tao Lin's talk, and maybe pick up some hot hipster pussy afterwards

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:35:59 2013 No.4073162 >>4073131 not be a retarded 14 year old, that's what

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:36:59 2013 No.4073168 File: 47 KB, 640x453, b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4073045

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:37:59 2013 No.4073170 >>4073045 this is /b/ material. horrible. a true e/lit/ist would have jumped onstage crashing his little world with a complete reading of GR to show him how shit his writings are

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:39:59 2013 No.4073174

>>4073150

fuck that shit then I'd be no better than tao lin

>>4073162

didn't know /lit/ was a bunch of cowardly pussies who probably would have just sat there silently fuming but still aroused and pretending to be enjoying themselves knowing full well that they are watching the man singlehandedly destroying contemporary literature. No, I chose to do something

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:41:59 2013 No.4073178 >>4073174 but you didn't do anything

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:41:59 2013 No.4073179 >>4073045 Tao are you here? Can you confirm this story for us?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:42:59 2013 No.4073180 >>4072550 Jesus christ that faggot at the front with the Van Dyke and the wife-beater. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:42:59 2013 No.4073182
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>>4073174
>No, I chose to do something

Yes you called him a faggot. Wow truly you're a hero of literature and your actions have caused such a drastic difference!

Can we submit this photo of you for Time's Person of the Year?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:42:59 2013 No.4073183 >>4073174 your ideals were heroic, but I don't approve your method. People thought of you as a random guy with no interest in literature trying to be edgy for no reason.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:43:59 2013 No.4073185 >>4073045 1/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 14:53:59 2013 No.4073198 >>4073045 >hur faggot Wow you're not white trash at all. Good job showing Towling how terrible he is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:06:00 2013 No.4073227 newfriend here why do you hate Tao Lin?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:08:00 2013 No.4073230 >>4073227 because he whores himself on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:14:59 2013 No.4073251 >>4072560 This would be perfect. Also use "quotes" once or twice.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:20:59 2013 No.4073262

>>4072935
He's partly burnt out from drugs. It's the weird sluggishness you get from people who do a lot of uppers. Their arousal systems are all fucked because they're used to being stirred up physiologically in response to normal life. It's apparent in his writing too. Lots of psuedo-realization and ennui, all stim-high stuff, and a little genuine creativity. A lot of people, especially younger people who don't have a lot of gritty life experience, relate to this because everyone's kinda whacked out on phones and computers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:32:59 2013 No.4073295 >>4072534 pelt with balloons filled with urine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:36:59 2013 No.4073305 >>4073262 interesting insight

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:47:00 2013 No.4073320 >>4073262 >genuine creativity >lit Please Any modern contemporary work has been institutionalized by now. DFW was probably our last chance and he's dead and faggots have to whine about muh coherency

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:51:00 2013 No.4073327 >>4073320 Except he didn't have an ounce of creativity in his body

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:52:59 2013 No.4073332 >>4073262 so i was right for not trying any drugs ever all along huh

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:55:59 2013 No.4073336 >>4073320 dfw is good, but creative? top lel mate

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 15:57:00 2013 No.4073338 >>4072550 That poem is so funny! You talk all you want but he still sells more books than all of us.

>>	Fandroid !p6ktXMpsfc Fri Aug 30 16:17:59 2013 No.4073375 >>4073332 >so i was right for not trying any drugs ever all along huh shut up straight edge fag 420 blaze it

>>	Fandroid !p6ktXMpsfc Fri Aug 30 16:21:59 2013 No.4073380 >>4073174 If you really wanted to do something, you would have written a book to defend "contemporary literature". But you're not a writer, so you do edgy things like interrupt someone's reading by yelling out fag.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:25:59 2013 No.4073384 >>4073380 It would've been cool and funny if he like ran up on the stage naked and gave Tao Lin a kiss on the lips or something, but instead what he did was dumb and gay

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:25:59 2013 No.4073385 >>4073380 yelling faggot is not in any way edgy, if anything its old fashioned, tao lin is edgy

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:44:59 2013 No.4073426 >>4073045 Modern day Rimbaud right here folks!!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:47:59 2013 No.4073434 >>4073426 do not mention that name in vain.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:50:00 2013 No.4073439 File: 265 KB, 1452x979, verlaine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4073434 >yfw

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 16:57:00 2013 No.4073453 >>4073066 huehuehue

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 17:46:59 2013 No.4073577 Should I read something from Tao Lin?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 17:50:59 2013 No.4073588 >>4073174 >"hey guize i called him a faggot" >"am i cool yet" >"hipster chicks saw me insult tao lin, am i cool yet"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 17:51:59 2013 No.4073590 >>4073577 no, just start hating him for no reason

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 17:58:00 2013 No.4073606

>>4073588

they certainly didn't think I was cool. I couldn't tell which they hated more, the fact that I used homophobic language, which admittedly might not have been the best choice, but in the moment I couldn't think of anything else to say or anything else that would garner the sort of reaction that faggot would, or if they hated more the fact that I ripped the clothes off of this newly dressed emperor

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:07:00 2013 No.4073616 >>4073606 >I ripped the clothes off of this newly dressed emperor You had me going there. 6/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:35:59 2013 No.4073675 File: 993 KB, 250x250, 1373168936555.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4073606 damn son, you had me baited for awhile

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:42:59 2013 No.4073691 >>4073616 >>4073675 fuck you I am not a troll, I actually pulled that shit and you faggots are just mad you wouldn't have the balls to put your money where your mouth is

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:43:59 2013 No.4073697 >>4073691 don't you think tao has feelings? why would you do that to a person?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:44:59 2013 No.4073698 >>4073691 You are dedicated to your craft anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:45:59 2013 No.4073701 >>4073697 Yeah man, I would be saddened if someone said that to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:46:59 2013 No.4073702 >>4073691 even if you aren't trolling, you didn't accomplish anything. he won that round.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:50:59 2013 No.4073712
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>>4073691
This is the fakest story. This person didn't/doesn't know who Tao Lin. Using 'faggot' on 4chan reeks enough, but using it in real life is more than cringeworthy.

>u fags just don't have balls. u gay or sum thin lol?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:52:59 2013 No.4073717 >>4073712 check your privelige >>4073702 you didn't see the look on his face, his whole little smug autistic act was wiped off his mug for like 2 seconds and he genuintely looked hurt and it was totally worth it

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:53:59 2013 No.4073718 >>4073691 Why would I put my money in or inside my mouth ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 18:53:59 2013 No.4073720 >>4073717 you like hurting people?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:00:59 2013 No.4073730 What would YOU have said to Tao while he was visiting your university? My entry: >The jig is up, Lin. That's right. whip out wallet American Apparel Collections. Time to pay the piper.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:02:59 2013 No.4073734 >>4073717 If anything, this only makes me like Tao Lin more knowing that he has feelings.

Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:03:59 2013 No.4073736

>>4073720
You wanna hurt Tao? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. He's an easy target. Yeah, you're right. He writes too much. He also listens too much. He could be a cold-hearted cynic like Cormac, but he doesn't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about Tao. Tao's not changing. He likes Tao. My wife likes Tao. My customers like Tao. 'Cause Tao's the real article. What you see is what you get.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:04:00 2013 No.4073738 File: 123 KB, 538x800, Checkered_blazer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4073730 >Why don't you make your next novel about Sri Lankan sweatshop workers, I can tell you're already a patron of their products

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:11:59 2013 No.4073753 >>4073738 >Why don't you make your next novel about Sri Lankan sweatshop workers Because those aren't bored, disaffected, college-educated NEETs using computer analogies to describe and define their lives. Duh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:13:59 2013 No.4073756 >>4073753 college educated neet is an oxymoron

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:14:59 2013 No.4073758 >>4073756 so much the better

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:14:59 2013 No.4073760 >>4073756 Yeah. Should've used "wiki-educated."

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:21:59 2013 No.4073778 >>4073730 >What would YOU have said to Tao while he was visiting your university? "How long did it take to write Infinite Jest?"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:33:59 2013 No.4073801 >>4073730 >What would YOU have said to Tao while he was visiting your university? Why do you do your own stunts?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:38:59 2013 No.4073809 >>4073730 >What would YOU have said to Tao while he was visiting your university? What's your next book after 1Q84 going to be about?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 30 19:40:59 2013 No.4073814 "Your prose style is like a river of gold and it's th- oh wait, you're that 'and then they ate whale' guy? Nevermind, nevermind.."

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 01:44:00 2013 No.4074463 >>4073809 this is the only good post in this thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 01:45:00 2013 No.4074467 >>4073809 dooooo IT dooooo IT

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 01:45:00 2013 No.4074468 >>4073778 this please god

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 01:46:00 2013 No.4074469 ask him why he talks like john mccain

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 01:46:00 2013 No.4074470 >>4072534 Go up to him and ask him to sign your copy of John Dies at the End, or your copy of some China Mieville book, or a Haruki Murakami book. The joke is that you mistook him for someone famous or somewhat talented.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 02:05:00 2013 No.4074499 >>4074470 This. Take your copy of 1084 (or any other Murakami book) and ask for an autograph. Bonus points if in broken Japanese.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 03:31:00 2013 No.4074644 show him my penis

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 04:37:01 2013 No.4074719 >>4072935 she wants the d

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 04:40:00 2013 No.4074724 File: 155 KB, 800x800, 1331576997600.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4072935 >the characters names are Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 10:08:01 2013 No.4075047 >>4073045 lol typical awkward 4chan guy, how exactly did you fucked up his world? you didn´t even tell him that his writing is shit wait, have you ever read one of his books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 31 10:50:00 2013 No.4075121 >>4073809 why? is tao lin so similar to Murakami?

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