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who has the biggest fedora in literature and why is it not Ignatius Reilly?

>> No.4956081

fedoras form colonies, tumors

ignatius is pretty much a lone wolf

>> No.4956085

Did he not engage in sexual congress and perhaps even coitus with the musky Minkoff minx? Their alleged rutting precludes him from your dubious conceptual category of fedorist, you insufferable oaf. Oh my God!

>> No.4956154

Ivan.

>> No.4956161

Why did the Author kill himself? He wrote a pretty cool book.

Why didn't he write more and have a fun life instead?

>> No.4956171

>>4956161
He considered himself a failure. He couldn't get his book published, and his other book wasn't very good.

>> No.4956191

>>4956171
>He couldn't get his book published

This shouldn't really bother a writer/thinker. Look at Melville, he wrote the greatest novel ever and it was a complete financial and critical failure in his life and took 30 years to get recognized.

>> No.4956204

>>4956191
Unpublished novelist here. The whole "you'll be successful after you're dead" thing really isn't any consolation.

>> No.4956212

>>4956204
>The whole "you'll be successful after you're dead" thing really isn't any consolation.

Being successful shouldn't be your goal in the first place.

>> No.4956217

>>4956212
It sure would beat starving to death.

>> No.4956228

>>4956217
>It sure would beat starving to death.

Literary success is not necessary for livelihood.

>> No.4956236

>>4956212
Maybe, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be recognized and appreciated.

>> No.4956241

>>4956228
It is when writing is the only thing you're any good at.

>> No.4956287

>>4956241
>It is when writing is the only thing you're any good at.

You don't have to be good at anything to make a livelihood.

>> No.4956305

>>4956085
>sexual congress and perhaps even coitus
>implying those aren't the same thing
do you even English m8?

but good post nonetheless, if this was reddit you'd get a few hundred upvotes.

>> No.4956412

>>4956191
>This shouldn't really bother a writer/thinker.
John Kennedy Toole might disagree. He wrote a book about the problems of not caring about what others think.

>> No.4956582

>>4956085
He didn't fuck Minkoff. He specifically tried to NOT fuck her. It was sexual foreplay, competing with her, but whenever she tried he would reject her.

Near the end he makes it an offer though so he can leave his home.

>> No.4956639

>>4956069
Because he is not an atheist or agnostic /thread

>> No.4956924

>>4956069
Because Ignatius has a green hunting cap.
A modern Ignatius has a fedora because hunting now reflects a serious lack of theology and geometry.

>> No.4956957

>>4956069
Whoa! That fat mother transcends the fedora non-fedora dichotomy! Hey!

>> No.4956967

>>4956154
Ivan was right, even Dosto knew he was.

It took him three weeks to write Ivan's 'heresies' and several months to come up with his half assed response (zosima).

>> No.4956970

I hope that on a day of untold significance, the eternal powers that be (be they of any kind either scientific, metaphysical or biblical) engage a method of true and undeniable righteousness and slay any who utters the word 'fedora' in a memetic sense.

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>>4956970
Agreed.

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>>4956970

>> No.4956994

>>4956967
>Ivan was right, even Dosto knew he was.
Ivan's only recourse was madness though. The whole book, not just Zossima's response, is a response to The Grand Inquisitor. Alyosha was the hero, which would've been more clear if the project had been finished.

>> No.4957007

>>4956212
Yes, but a little validation of something you have committed your life to is consoling.

>> No.4957053

John fucking Stenbeck.

Considering buying multiple copies of Grapes of Wrath to burn them.

>> No.4957385

>>4956154
I knew this would be here. He isn't a fedora though. those arguements he made in those two chapters rebellion and the grand inquisitor mean he actually thinks for himself and is good at it. fedoras are like religious nuts but more arrogant and less pleasant

>> No.4957416

>>4956191
>>4956212
What really hits me hard of the thought that I may not even be a good writer.