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If we made contact with aliens and you could pick any author to be our embassador to the other world, who would you pick and more importantly why?

>> No.6088000

Dead or alive?

Probably Lem.

>> No.6088006

>>6087990
World Embassador or European Embassador?
If World, maybe Shakespeare, because he published works that are everywhere true
if European, obviously Dante, due to his importance for literature

>> No.6088018

>>6088000
It can be Any author, dead they'd be revived for this purpose only, or alive.

>>6088006
World ambassador, the author would speak for humanity

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6088035

because i would get a laugh out of it all

>> No.6088061

>>6087990
Plato

>> No.6088063

>>6088061
Ok but why you cunt

>> No.6088071

>>6088063
mind your own business

>> No.6088078

>>6088071
Fair enough

>> No.6088086

Thomas Ligotti, he could convince the aliens to blow our planet up w/ a Death Star.

>> No.6088089

>>6088086
Kek

>> No.6088103

Dali

don't you go questioning his being an author now. Also, he actually did too write a book.

>> No.6088133

TAO LIN
TAI PEH

>> No.6088538

PKD

so the aliens deterred by his schizoid mess and leave us alone

>> No.6088553

dead included - Huxley

alive only - Stephen Hawking

>> No.6089691

sun tzu (Either the one person, or the entirety)
or
Doctor Seuss.

>> No.6089753

James Joyce, he turns them all into fart-obsessed alcoholics and humanity is safe

>> No.6089801

>>6087990
our lord who art in heaven above

>> No.6090013

Burroughs

>> No.6090023

Han Feizi

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6091139

Kurt Vonnegut because no one would believe him

>> No.6091201

>>6088553
>Stephen Hawking

>The aliens assume we're a race of sentient cyborgs with psionic powers and flee the Earth in terror

>> No.6091216

Tolkien.

/thread.

>> No.6091228

>>6091216

>The Earthlings seem to believe in a fictional entity who supposedly rules all their lives, and in addition they poison their lungs with burnt exhaust from a toxic plant. We need not bother with them.

>> No.6091232

>>6091228
Why did you quote that guy?

>> No.6091237

>>6087990
something that makes them blow us up.

>> No.6091241

>>6091232

I was simulating the aliens' reaction to Tolkien, I mean I like him but I don't think he would made a good ambassador and I strongly doubt aliens could understand either Catholicism or smoking.

>> No.6091249

>>6091241
>I strongly doubt aliens would understand earth

You keep adding extra shit to your main point somehow, idk man

>> No.6091261

>>6091249
>You keep adding extra shit to your main point

I guess too much Pinecone and DFW would do that to a man. I need to detox myself.