/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4305087]

I saw Tao Lin a grocery store in New York yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw Tao trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[Anonymous No.4305118]

>>4305087

[Anonymous No.4305119]

nice fan fic
10/10
my jims where rustied

[Anonymous No.4305121]

I sent Tao Lin a facebook message with the first chapter of my novella and he never read it.

[Anonymous No.4305123]

i totally believe this happened

[Anonymous No.4305120]

>>4305087

[Anonymous No.4305126]

>>4305123
it's just copypasta

[Anonymous No.4305127]

I was expecting goofballs at some point.

[Anonymous No.4305134]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin#Internet_Presence
>Lin has developed a large following on the internet, and has become infamous on 4chan's /lit/ board, where the popular may-may 'Go to bed, Tao' came about as the result of a spurious rumor that Lin was self-promoting lousy prose on the site[48]. The denizens of /lit/ jokingly refer to Lin as the 'Kafka of the Internet'[49] and humorously refer the author as the 'voice of a generation'[50]. In tribute to his fans, Tao Lin briefly "had an idea to title it [his latest novel] 4chan"[51], before deciding on Taipei. He has denied claims that he suffers from autism.

[Anonymous No.4305144]

>>4305087

[Anonymous No.4305146]

>>4305134
Oh my God the ''autist'' thing is still there.

Best wikipedia article ever.

[Anonymous No.4305149]

>>4305134
>Tao Lin (Traditional Chinese: 林 韜, Simplified Chinese: 林 韬, Pinyin: Lín Tāo, born July 2, 1983) is a Japanese novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and autist.

>Born July 2, 1983 (age 30)
>Alexandria, Japan
>Occupation Novelist, poet
>Nationality Japanese

my flanks

[Anonymous No.4305154]

>>4305152

[Anonymous No.4305152]

>>4305134
>Go to Wikipedia to check that shit
>jesus christ who the fuck wrote this, with references and all

I know it was you Tao.

[Anonymous No.4305168]

>>4305134
Wait how is this back up?

The original version of this was edited months ago but deleted right away

[Anonymous No.4305170]

>>4305168
It's a real thing, when you think of it.

[Anonymous No.4305177]

>>4305170
I know but I wrote some of it (not the "spurious claims bit" or the "humorously refer" but) but it was taken down due to 4chan threads not being a reliable source/reference

[Anonymous No.4305196]

>>4305154
>Schaolin

[Anonymous No.4305202]

Tao Lin responded to me in an email once.

[Anonymous No.4305215]

>>4305154

5/5 did rage hard

This forced meme needs to end.

[Anonymous No.4305219]

>>4305215
>forced meme

That's Tao himself neatly placing him among Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Borges as notable people influenced by Schopenhauer, friendo.

[Anonymous No.4305226]

Tao Lin really is heavily influenced by Schopenhauer though.

[Anonymous No.4305227]

>>4305226
You mean he's almost as autistic as Schoppy?

[Anonymous No.4305348]

>>4305087
Fuck, I had a good laugh.

Never fails to amuse, thanks OP.

[Anonymous No.4306062]

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/mar/27/tao-lin/

Wait, this is real?

[Anonymous No.4306083]

>>4305087
I met Thom Yorke just last week:

I was in California and I happened to run into him at a local diner. He was sitting alone and it looked like he'd only just started eating, so I decided to just go up and say hi (if his friends were there I would have just let him be). Anyway, I walk up and say hello and tell him I know him from Radiohead. Nothing. No reaction. Doesn't say a word. He just sits there, staring right through me. Staring intensely, but with no emotion whatsoever.

I begin to feel awkward, so I say "sorry to disturb you" and start to walk away but before I even get a chance to turn he just gets up suddenly and starts walking toward me, still making full eye contact. At first I thought he was going to try and barge into me or something, but at the last minute (like an inch away from me) he turns and heads toward the trash can. Then he starts dumping everything on his plate into it. One by one. Potatoes, carrots, everything. He picks up each bit of food up, holds it high above the can and drops it. Some of it (the steak) didn't even make it into the trash because he wasn't looking at what he was doing.

Finally his plate is empty and this is the part that really fucking weirded me out. He looks around to check no one (but me) is looking, then slides the plate under his jacket and walks out.

I was just astounded, it was pretty surreal.

[Anonymous No.4306090]

>>4306062
what's real?

Tao Lin posting on /lit/?
of course it is you nut

[Anonymous No.4306096]

>>4306083
who the fuck is Thom Yorke?

[Anonymous No.4306100]

Why is this guy famous?

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.4306112]

>>4305154
>Houellebecq
wot

[Anonymous No.4306117]

>>4305087
>look up tao lin on wikipedia
>Tao Lin is a Japanese novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and autist.
u wot m8

[Anonymous No.4306122]

>>4306096

[Anonymous No.4306134]

>>4305202

[Anonymous No.4306178]

>/tv/ copypasta

Not even once.

[Anonymous No.4306183]

>>4306096

Oh boy if this was on /mu/...

[Anonymous No.4306348]

>>4306083
Haha, what a story Mark

[Anonymous No.4306361]

Gets me literally every time.

[Anonymous No.4306366]

>>4305134

>He has denied claims that he suffers from autism.
Holy shit I'm dying.

[Anonymous No.4306375]

>>4306112
Have you read any of his works? Houellebecq is pessimistic as fuck about humanity. I'm sure he read Schopenhauer at one point.

[Anonymous No.4306411]

I saw Immanuel Kant in a grocery store in Königsberg yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and not kill his family.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and shoving The Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Purposes in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw Tao trying to walk out the doors with like all of his friends in his arms without having them killed.
I was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to let me kill them first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear me, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the cutting board.

When I started asking about all of his friends as a group he stopped me and told me to ask about each of them individually "to prevent any deontological interfetterence" and then turned around and winked at Lampe. I don’t even think that’s a word. After I asked about each person's location individually and gathered them up and started to slaughter them, he kept interrupting me by yawning really loudly in my ear.

[Anonymous No.4306419]

>>4306411

FUCK I meant to say "not kill his friends", not "not kill his family."

[Anonymous No.4306425]

>>4305087

[Anonymous No.4306685]

>>4305087

[Anonymous No.4307243]

So Tao has depression and social anxiety obviously, but is he actually on the higher end of the autistic spectrum ?

would not be surprised in the least

[Anonymous No.4307273]

>>4307243
No, I don't think you can write critically-acclaimed-in-the-new-york-times novels without some degree of social skill and self awareness.

[Anonymous No.4307274]

>Tao Lin (Traditional Chinese: 林 韜, Simplified Chinese: 林 韬, Pinyin: Lín Tāo, July 2, 1983 - November 25, 2013) was an American novelist, poet, essayist...

tep kok which of you faggots did that?

[Anonymous No.4307297]

>>4305087

>my library actually had shop lifting from american apparel

>read it

>it's shit

>shit that an /r9k/ user could have wrote

>tfw haven't published anything

How did he do it? Rich parents?

The first part of the book is some guy browsing the interrnet talking about fapping with his e friend.

Seriously wtf?

[Anonymous No.4307300]

>>4307297

>The part about Moby

I laughed my ass off at that shit. Tao made Moby sound like a dick.

[Anonymous No.4307303]

>>4307297

How the fuck did Shop Lifting From American Apparel get published?

Who thought hey this is a good book and published it?

It blows my mind. I could have wrote a story like that out of my ass on word.

How did he get it published? Does he have massive rich parents? is he like that fag who directed The Chronicle because he had a rich producer father???

[Anonymous No.4307306]

>>4307274
RIP in peace.

[Anonymous No.4307310]

>>4305120

Is that MC Ride?

IT'S ALL SUICIDE IT'S ALL SUICIDE GUILLOTINE BWAWAWAHHAHAH

[Anonymous No.4307322]

Bump

[Anonymous No.4307330]

>>4307310
>see homeless black man
>all rook same
>"Is that MC Ride?

[Anonymous No.4307332]

>>4307330

I'm sorry anon but Death Grips lead singer MC Ride does look like that homeless black man.

Sowwwiee

[Anonymous No.4307339]

>>4307332
that's mick ride, don't worry.

[Anonymous No.4307370]

>>4307274
In May 2013, Lin underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland. Afterwards he claimed on his website to be "bigger and stronger" than ever, but on October 27, 2013, he died from liver disease at his home in Southampton, New York, at the age of 30.

[Anonymous No.4307372]

I didn't know Tao Lin died of liver cancer the same day Lou Reed died.

[Anonymous No.4307457]

>"Lin has developed a large following on the internet, and has become infamous on 4chan's /lit/ board, where the popular may-may 'Go to bed, Tao' came about as the result of a spurious rumor that Lin was self-promoting lousy prose on the site[55]. The denizens of /lit/ jokingly refer to Lin as the 'Kafka of the Internet'[56] and humorously refer the author as the 'voice of a generation'[57]. In tribute to his fans, Tao Lin briefly "had an idea to title it [his latest novel] 4chan"[58], before deciding on Taipei. He has denied claims that he suffers from autism."

How long has this been up?`

[Anonymous No.4307493]

>>4305134
it says that he died...

[Anonymous No.4309222]

>>4307273
get the hell outta here

[Anonymous No.4309236]

>>4307303
>>4307297
>Does he have rich parents?

Yep. His father is a rich scientist and his mother is a poet or something. They owned the apartment he lived in in New York, so his "struggling artist" thing was totally fraudulent.

His brother is an investment banker and Tao himself was raised in a house worth half a million dollars in Florida. The guy's a pampered joke who paid for his poetry to be published at Bear House

[Anonymous No.4309248]

>>4306178
was it /tv/ that started this? I assumed it was /mu/

[Anonymous No.4309257]

I read Taipei

I want my money back

[Anonymous No.4309364]

I played this game earlier and I'm sure many have done the same.

>hipster author

I thought it was funny

[Anonymous No.4309880]

>>4307273
>I don't think you can write critically-acclaimed-in-the-new-york-times novels without some degree of social skill and self awareness

lol, take a look at this guy