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Best literary names.

Ophelia

>> No.5889863

>>5889861
Tristan and Isolde

>> No.5889866

>>5889861
"Swagus Swagonicus"

>> No.5889868

Yossarian.

>> No.5889870

Golyakdin

>> No.5889895

Horselover Fat

>> No.5889897

>>5889861
Bérénice

>> No.5889898
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5889898

>>5889861
Boneywasawarriorwayayix

>> No.5889903

>>5889861
Bathcat and Toadvine

>> No.5889905

>>5889863
Isolde is beautiful. Tristan is alright too.

>> No.5889908

Anastasia Steele

>> No.5889911

Phuc Stevenson and Thuy Johnston

his poetry is teenagery as fuck, but kolsti can name characters

>> No.5889916

Antenor, Arachne, Phyllis and Demophon

>> No.5889918

>>5889911
damn it kolsti get out of here
you're a tenth rate tao lin

>> No.5889922

>>5889911
>>5889918
Who is Kolsti?

>> No.5889927

>>5889922
some blogger who writes tryhard pseudo-poetry and forces himself on /lit/ every now and then
don't waste another post on him

>> No.5889928

>>5889918
that comparison doesn't even make sense. tao is twitter era hemingway. kolsti's way too maximalist

>> No.5889935

Aureliano Buendía

>> No.5889939

>>5889927
>tryhard pseudo-poetry
Is he talented or?

>> No.5889945

>>5889939
judge for yourself

>> No.5889950

>>5889939
https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=kolsti+poems&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

>> No.5889951

>>5889945
I'm not an English native speaker

>> No.5889955

>>5889950
why his poems? he's primarily a prose guy, no?

http://postmetakolsti.tumblr.com/post/92882440475/opening-paragraph-to-something-im-writing
http://postmetakolsti.tumblr.com/post/95595878147/postmetapainbrush-episode-2-tub-girl
http://postmetakolsti.tumblr.com/post/105409630760/new-novel-excerpt

>> No.5889960

>>5889955
>why his poems? he's primarily a prose guy, no?
I don't know kolsti, why don't you tell us.

>> No.5889964

>>5889945
>>5889950
For me it sounds like absolute trash meta-post-modernism 2deep4you, but I'm not an English native speaker so maybe I don't really understand the subtleties/meaning

>> No.5889968

If me and my gf ever have a son we''ve agreed on naming him Ulysses.

>> No.5889970

>>5889964
No, you've got it right. It's trash that you only extreme perverts that hang around on the internet will enjoy. Like Tao Lin except Tao Lin has a little bit of humour.

>> No.5889971

>>5889968
pls no

>> No.5889973

>>5889968
Why not give him a different Homeric name to spare him having to be related to that awful novel?

>> No.5889978

>>5889971
>>5889973
Telemachus?

>> No.5889988

Lesbia

>> No.5889989

Kolsti, you know what you should do? You should write some pulp fiction for teenaged girls. At least teenaged girls are a legitimate audience with some discernible taste, unlike the imaginary art critic in your head who is praising you for stylistic abortions.

>> No.5889993

>>5889978
See: >>5889916
>Antenor

>> No.5889994

>>5889978
Sure
Only if you are upper-middle class, wealthy, and don't mind him being called "mack".

>> No.5889995

Finnegan

>> No.5890005

Una/Oona

>> No.5890018

Gilgamesh

>> No.5890033

How the fuck has no one said Beowulf yet?

>> No.5890036

>>5889863
This.

>> No.5890068

>>5889908

>Steele

It's edgy. Really, fucking, edgy.

>> No.5890075

>>5889861
Daenarys

>> No.5890076

Billy Pilgrim. That repetition though.

>> No.5890078

Jake (from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises)


It's almost impossible to conceive a more neutral character name. A man defined by all other characterization applied to him, making no first impression whatsoever. In Contrast, Hemingway's Mike seems oppresive. It's brilliant.

>>5890076

What book is this from? I'm sure I've read it. Slaughterhouse 5. Thanks.

>> No.5890105

>>5890068
Anastasia Kolde Steele

>> No.5890194

>>5890105

You're scaring the children. pretty sure Joyce had something on shaken babies in Dubliners

>> No.5890203

Say what you want aout GRR Martin, but his name are absolutely terrific
> Oberyn
> Baratheon
> Balor Greyjoy
> Viserys Targaryen

>> No.5890206

>>5890203
George pls go

>> No.5890252

>>5889861
Lucifer

>> No.5890254

Fun fact: the model in the Ophelia painting is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife.

>> No.5890269

>>5890254
>Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Why did this man paint nothing but Cleopatra femme fatales?

>> No.5890283

>>5890018
>Not Umwawa
>not Enkidu
>not Ishtar

Could you possibly fuck up more ?

>> No.5890292

Chichikov

>> No.5890293

Freyja

>> No.5890295

>>5889861
Seven.

>> No.5890300

Severian

>> No.5890309

>>5890300
>Severian
Severin

>> No.5890315

>>5890309
No. Severian is superior.

>> No.5890318

>>5890203
Not really.

Damphair. Damp Hair. The guy who is a priest of the Drowned God's birthname is literally Damp Hair.

Targaryen. Targ means shield in old scandinavian=Aryan, because they're an Aryan family

>> No.5890333

>>5890283
>>Not Umwawa
No, just no.

>>not Enkidu
The sonorities are really poor

>>not Ishtar
>naming your daughter after a goddess
Kek, why don't you name your son Allah?

>> No.5890359

Clytemnestra

>> No.5890375

Ariadne

>> No.5890385

Ernest Pudding

>> No.5890401

>>5890315
I prefer Severin as a two syllable name.

>> No.5890416

>>5890333
>No, just no.

The use of faggots or effeminate phrasings like "just no" (what are you, a female twitter follower of Benedict Cumberbatch ?) isn't surpring from someone who can't appreciate the primitive power of a name such as Umwawa. It would make a perfect name for a dog (remember the OP didn't specify "human children names").

>not Enkidu
The sonorities are really poor.

The only poor thing is your ear sir.

>naming your daughter after a goddess
>Kek, why don't you name your son Allah?

Because:

1. Allah is neither male nor female and cannot be represented, as such it's a poor name for such a visible and representable thing as a boy.

2. Contrary to Ishtar, Allah is currently worshipped, and by more than a billion people at that, so the awkwardness of even danger of naming someone Allah isn't comparable to that of naming someone Ishtar.

3. Ishtar is supposed to be an attractive goddess of fertility, without too much of the whorish undertones that some fertility goddesses had. It's therefore not unfit for a girl.

4. Names of goddesses are already used over the world, without causing too much trouble to their bearers (think Diane for instance, but the Indians sometimes also name their children after goddesses).

5. To answer more precisely to your first suggestion, Gilgamesh is indeed a fine good name, but only for a sheesh kebab or a keftah. And we don't go around naming keftah, do we ?

>> No.5890426

>>5890416
Ishtar is a very ugly name. Isis, Aphrodite, Venus, and Freya are all more beautiful names.

>> No.5890445

>>5890269
Because he had good taste.

>> No.5890515

Jaden Smith

>> No.5890518

>>5890283
>not Uta-Napishtim
Stop

>> No.5890525

>>5889968
Do it as a middle name or something, but don't subject your kid to having a first name that will get them made fun of.

>> No.5890533

>>5890105
psssshhh... nothin personnel

>> No.5890539

>>5889861
Harry potter

>> No.5890559

Desdemona

>> No.5890560

>>5890318
>Damphair. Damp Hair. The guy who is a priest of the Drowned God's birthname is literally Damp Hair

No it isn't you moron. Damphair is a nickname he received AFTER becoming a priest.

>> No.5890566 [DELETED] 

>>5890560
Lmfao wow what a rebuttal

>> No.5890567

>>5890203
FUCKING TERRIFIC M8

>> No.5890568

Agamemnon is the most powerful name in existence.

>> No.5890576

>>5890566
Yeah that's right dipshit because the character's name isn't fuckin Damphair and he didn't get it at birth so the entire point falls flat on its face.

>> No.5890589

>>5890576
Damphair tho'.

>> No.5890601

>>5889861
Lolita.

>> No.5890608 [DELETED] 

>>5890576
I'm not the guy who originally made that point nor have I read ASOIAF but you're clearly an autistic moron
>He has a lazy name "Damphair" which relates to his description
>LEL THAT'S HIS NICKNAME THOUGH DON'T YOU KNOW THAT MONICKERS IN A FICTIONAL WORLD DEVELOP ORGANICALLY AS IF THEY WERE REAL?
>Okay but the author still named him Damp Hair, which is lazy as fuck
>HAHA I ALREADY SAID ITS A NICKNAME FITE ME IRL

>> No.5890639

>>5889861
Thecla.

>> No.5890789

>>5889861
Lucrezia

>> No.5890800

>>5890426
>Venus
>Freya

If you want your daughter to be called a whore or have anus jokes made about her, sure.

> Aphrodite

If you want your daughter to be called a disease perhaps.


>Isis

That one is a bit slutty, but good.

>>5890518
Right. That one, and Nebuchadnezzar II (Nebuchadnezzar I is so sixties, it'll make your kid look like a dork).

>> No.5890812

>>5890426
>Isis

I think that name is sullied forever

>> No.5891024

>>5889978
Name him Adonis
It is my second name too...

>> No.5891311

>>5890416
>Ishtar
not inanna

>>5891024
call him attis
he will cut his dick later

>> No.5891617

Manny di Presso

>> No.5891642

Isabel

>> No.5891658

>>5891311
>Can't write names to save himself
>Posts in a names thread

>> No.5891684

>>5889903
<3

>> No.5891693

Humbert Humbert

>> No.5891713

>>5889968
That's a really bad idea, and if my parents named me that I would never forgive them. Seriously, please don't name them Ulysses

>> No.5891761

>>5891713
Some people are named Ulysses

they're most of them cunts

>> No.5892087

>>5890252

8/10

>> No.5892134

My kid's name is gonna be James Danger Lastname

James after my dad, "Danger is my middle name", friends call him J.D., and if he doesn't want people to know, he's just James D. Or

>J. Danger Lastname

>> No.5892227

Emily is best female name.

>> No.5892233

>>5892227

Sophie

>> No.5892245

>>5892233

Sophie is just a shit version of Sophia.

>> No.5892260

>>5892245

It's a friendly sound, whispered under breath. An endearment, like Mitya, or Kolya. If you prefer I call my favorite by such a title as Krasotkin, I may insist that you be of the rougher sort, and not fit to name the beautiful.

>> No.5892279

>>5892260
>An endearment, like Mitya, or Kolya. If you prefer I call my favorite by such a title as Krasotkin

you mix first name with last name, it's kolya vs nikolai, not kolya vs krasotkin

>> No.5892285

>>5890608

I'm not the guy but this makes sense. Think about from the Iron Born's perspective.

"Eh Georgie, you 'ere bout' ole Balor Greyjoy?"
"Wot's the bugger done now?"
"Believe or not, cownt's sold his skull to the Drowned God; What is dead may never die."
"What is dead may never die. You're not shittin me? Wankers gon soggy on us."
"Soggy on everthin, gon be up to his nipples in seawater instead of women now."
"Hey! Here comes old Damp Hair now!"
"Oy, Damphair! I rather loike that."


It would not take a stretch of the imagination for this to happen. It's an endearment, a mark upon his station meant to demean, humble or otherwise degrade his station but that relates directly to their religion, so he may be supposed to keep it without it affecting his position.

>> No.5892418

>>5889911
Please stop. I know it's you.

>> No.5892431

>>5890812
For the next three years, maybe.

>> No.5892443

>>5892260
Man, you're gross.

>> No.5892450

>>5889861
Have you ever had the Ophelia beer by Breckenridge brewery? Shit's top tier.

Also, pre-raphaelites a best.

>> No.5892496

>>5889978
Nestor is better imho.

>> No.5892705

>>5890416
Autism: the post

>> No.5892714

>>5892705
yeah, he said that ishtar wasn't a turboslut
she was

>> No.5892722

>>5892714
ya, and YHWH was a cunt, lol. So smart :3

>> No.5892726

>>5892722
i don't propose naming a boy yhvh...

>> No.5892727

Dorothy.

>> No.5892730

>>5892245
that's just a shit version of Sofia

>> No.5892737

Samuel Sosa

>> No.5892767

Oedipa Maas

>> No.5892803

>>5890559
>naming your daughter after a coal-burning slut

Now that's just tempting fate...

>> No.5892825

No one's said it yet? Surprising, given how well the character embodies 4chan, as /lit/ especially
>Ignatius

>> No.5892912

Medea tbh. I know the connotations are awful (as with Clytemnestra earlier), but I've always wanted to call my hypothetical daughter Medea.

It's such a pretty name, I dunno why I find it so aesthetically pleasing though.

>> No.5893797

He: Achilles
She: Psyche

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5893819

>>5893797
Psych! That's the wrong number.

>> No.5893839

>>5891693
That's not his real name though

>> No.5894002

Victrix or Charlemagne.

>> No.5894010

Bellatrix

>> No.5894022

I like a lot of the names in the Chronicles of Amber.

Cowin, Gerard, Deidre, Caine, Julian

>> No.5894062

>>5889861
Kafka:
Grev(Count) Vestvest
K
Barnabas
Sordini
Sortini

Marquez:
Holofernes
Lord Köchel (A dog described as being as big as a young bull)
Erendira/Aridnere

Gilgamesh
Hamlet
Ricardo Reis
The Judge

>> No.5896043

>>5889898

I like you.

>> No.5896058

>>5889861
Utnapishtim

>> No.5896532

>>5890568
Absolutely agree. One of the most fun words I can imagine speaking. Greek names are so fucking based.

Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
Orestes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Bacchus
Aristophanes
Artemis
Thucydides
Thrasymachus
fucking Alcibiades
Alcibiades again because fucking Alcibiades

>> No.5897547

>>5890401
Seev - in?

>> No.5897549

I love Oedipa Maas, and Oed for short. Can't quite pin why, but its by far my favorite Pynchon name.

>> No.5897914

>>5897547
Not him but he probably Sev-rin

>> No.5897919

Benedict Cumberbatch

>> No.5897921

>ctrl-f
>no Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

You guys need to up your level.

>> No.5897924

>>5889861

Sancho Panza

>> No.5898086

>>5889861
Major Major Major Major

>> No.5899540

Tennyson

Makes for a great male name tbh

>> No.5899546

>>5899540
maybe a middle name

>> No.5899552
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5899552

Ignatius

>> No.5899640

>>5890252
I actually really like this name. It's a shame I can't name my future son that.

>> No.5900701

>>5889935
Dead on mate

>> No.5900725

Dagny

>> No.5901397

>>5899640
Why not? There are records of Catholic bishops named Lucifer. It's not some kind of taboo.

>> No.5901412

>>5900725
d'Anconia

>> No.5902154

Stephen Dedalus

>> No.5902250

Nausicaä

>> No.5902272

>>5902250
grr, i hate this name and animufags
if you saw how some retards transcribe it greek->japanese->english->russian, ignore the proper cyrillic transcription from greek and claim that the result of this 4 language torture sounds better...

>> No.5902276

>>5902272
Your post sounds like it went through four languages in Google translate. Can you express your thoughts in English this time?

>> No.5902279

>>5902276
i bet you cannot point a single grammar mistake :p

>> No.5902500

>>5889861
That picture is ugly as shit.

>> No.5902503

Eärendil

>> No.5902517

>>5890318
His birthname is Aeron.

>> No.5902523

Pelafina

>> No.5902540

>>5889861
John Everyman

>> No.5902545

>>5889861
Dirk Gently

>> No.5903092

Hal
Orin

>> No.5903109

Anna Livia Plurabelle

>> No.5903795

>>5892418
All else aside, Phuc Stevenson and Thuy Johnston are pretty great just as names, if not as characters.

>> No.5903804

William Wordsworth

>> No.5903811

Valencourt from mysteries of Udolpho

Btw that book is the most melodramatic piece of literature conceivable.

>> No.5904879

Celladorion

>> No.5904894

Rant and Croaker are my favorites so far.