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5073771 No.5073771[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Rare picture of HP Lovecraft smiling

What other rare photos do you have of literary figures?

>> No.5073779
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5073779

>>5073771

Here's my favorite: Sylvia Plath feeding a deer in Canada.

It's just so... normal, but she's probably thinking about suicide.

>> No.5073782
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5073782

Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a book on his head

>> No.5073785
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5073785

Watsky

>> No.5073788
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5073788

Best picture of Anne Frank BY FAR

>> No.5073792
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5073792

>>5073771

Here's a rare picture of tao lin I saved off /lit/ years ago

>> No.5073794
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5073794

>>5073771

rare painting of the author of Shakespeare's works

>> No.5073796

>>5073782
Gabo is kill ;_;

>> No.5073800
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5073800

>>5073771
Kerouac holding a cat

>> No.5073805
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5073805

>>5073800
follow up: Stephen King with visionary murder in his eyes as he pets his cat

>> No.5073807

>>5073779

this picture is great, thanks.

>> No.5073812
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5073812

I have a great cat picture - William Burroughs and his cat tripping the fuck out

>> No.5073816

>>5073794

The evidence the supporters of this theory use is so ridiculous.

>> No.5073831
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5073831

Nabokov chasing butterflies around his house

>such beautiful prose, such fucking weird hobbies

>> No.5073839
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5073839

>>5073779

Sylvia Plath is the most beautiful writer try to convince me otherwise

>> No.5073844
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5073844

>>5073812

This picture of Burroughs scares the fuck out of me

>> No.5073853
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5073853

>>5073771
Truman Capote

>this was the little boy in To Kill a Mockingbird
>wtf
>he probably wrote the book too

>> No.5073867

>>5073792
amazing

>> No.5073897

>>5073844
reminds me of pic related
one of the greastest films ever and it doesn't even last half an hour

>>5073779
my god
I had never heard about this woman but I feel the need of reading her works imediately.

>> No.5073911
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5073911

>>5073897
the said pic

>> No.5073914

>>5073911
What's the film, please?

>> No.5073925
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5073925

>>5073914
Chris Marker's La Jetée
If you have seen the Army of Twelve Monkeys this will ring a bell.

>> No.5073926

>>5073831
His hobby isn't weird at all if you're even remotely familiar with his work outside of Lolita.

>> No.5073932

>>5073897
>never heard of sylvia plath
How fucking old are you?

>> No.5073936
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5073936

rare photo of DFW with an earring and a black man

>> No.5073954

>>5073932
Calm down, Im not from a speaking english country. Ill read her texts in french asap, hoping I have the level for the english ones.

>> No.5073964

>>5073831
That makes me want to read Ada, or Ardor again.

>> No.5073993

>>5073911
>la jetee
My nig.

>> No.5073998

I have a file saved "dfw_zadie_smith_sextape_1080P_bluray.exe, want me to post it?

>> No.5074022

>>5073936
black man is a big guy

>> No.5074027

>>5073954
your english seems good enough to understand Plath since her language isn't too complex. Really, it's not worth reading translated poetry, especially if you know enough of a foreign language to at least attempt reading the original.

>> No.5074049

>>5073792
He said, grinning.

>> No.5074059

>>5074049
>He said, grinning, after a vague amount of time, looking at the screen of his MacBook, absent-mindedly starting a new draft in Gmail, typing a few meaningless characters while resting fingers on the keyboard, then deleting the draft, closing his MacBook, taking 3 Xanax, and slowly falling asleep.

>> No.5074170
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5074170

>>5074027
>>5073897

I recommend reading her novel, The Bell Jar.

It's so dark and beautiful. The book is so chillingly honest about mental illness that it had me captivated like a deer in headlights

>> No.5074183
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5074183

>>5073771

Marcel Proust playing air guitar on a tennis racket circa 1892.

>> No.5074199
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5074199

>>5073771
Hemingway kicking a beer can

>> No.5074204
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5074204

>>5073771

Neil Gaiman being edgy standing in some snow without a jacket on

>> No.5074246

>>5074204
>literary figures
>neil gaiman

>> No.5074253

>>5074246

yea, he's not dead yet

>> No.5074280
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5074280

rare picture of Pynchon

>> No.5074283

>>5073932
Non-english speaker here, I've only heard of her thanks to a e-mail friend I got for my 8th grade english class.

>tfw I'll never travel to Ann Arbor and tell her I love her
>tfw it doesn't even make that much sense since we're both in relationships and don't even talk that much anymore anyway even though her bf looks a lot like me and my gf is majoring in the same thing as her

>> No.5074287

>>5074204
>>5074253
Gayman writes crap, not literature.

>> No.5074341

>>5074287
*tips literary fedora*

>> No.5074344

>>5074287
ebin m8

>> No.5074449

>>5074059
>He looked at his '4chan' post. "I feel insane" he said.

>> No.5074494

>>5074341
'cept fedora-wearers are the ones who like Gayman

checkmate neckbeards

>> No.5074502

>>5073831
>chasing butterflies

right, "butterflies"

>> No.5074552
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5074552

orwell with a katana

>> No.5074588

>>5074199
good form

>> No.5074621

>>5074552
/thread

>> No.5074677
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5074677

December 2000. Santa Fe, NM; Sir Poutsalot.

>> No.5074688

>>5073998

It's actually just a Bill Clinton impression.

>> No.5074753

These are some pretty cool pics. Any more out there?

>> No.5074779
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5074779

>>5073792

>> No.5075062

>>5074552
I always thought it was a rifle for some reason.

>> No.5075137
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5075137

I've got a few

>> No.5075145
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5075145

>>5075137

>> No.5075152
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5075152

>>5075145

>> No.5075158
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5075158

>>5075152
two-fer

>> No.5075164
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5075164

>>5075158
"stick with me, baby, you'll be fartin' through silk. here, take this; first one's free."

>> No.5075170

>>5073853
looks like Mark E Smith from The Fall

>> No.5075171

>>5075062

It's often seen next to a quote Orwell made about keeping guns to protect our freedums

Whoever made it obviously thought it was a gun as well

>> No.5075888

>>5075171
hahaha, the internet

>> No.5075896

>>5075145
apparently Burroughs refused to talk to him about suicide, guns or shooting his wife

they made one song together though and it's heavy