/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6329351]

Is he the most /lit/erary athlete?

[Anonymous No.6329369]

yes

[Anonymous No.6329380]

What about

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[Anonymous No.6329387]

>Most philosophers are so politically incorrect—challenging the status quo, even challenging God. Nietzsche’s my favorite. He’s just insane. You have to have an IQ of at least 300 to truly understand him.


STIRNER POTENTIAL

what's tyson's address? i'll give up my copy of ego

[Anonymous No.6329397]

>>6329387

1500 Your Mom's Pussy

[Anonymous No.6329412]

>>6329351
Yes he is the UNDISPUTED King of /lit/

[Anonymous No.6329416]

He is not an athlete anymore, and most likely didn't have the habit of reading at the time he was.

[Anonymous No.6329421]

>>6329397
there's not enough big black dingus

why are these white girls with white boys nowaday

something is wrong

[Anonymous No.6329481]

I want tyson to eat my ear and fuck my boipussi

[Anonymous No.6329518]

>>6329421
>>6329481
cuck faggots

[Anonymous No.6329565]

Sam the cricket man Beckett

[Anonymous No.6329578]

During his prison sentence:

>I was totally into reading though. There's nothing that'll pass time than reading a whole book. Wayno and I would read to each other in our room every night. One guy would have the book and the other would have a thesaurus or dictionary so that when we came across a word we didn't know, we could look it up. We'd even use the words in sentences so we really got them down.

> really enjoyed Will Durant's The Story of Civilization. I read Mao's book. I read Che. I read Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Marx, Shakespeare, you name it. I read Hemingway, but he was too much of a downer. My favorite was Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. I really identified with the main character Edmond Dantes. He had been framed by his enemies and sent to jail too. But he didn't just sit there and brood; he prepared for his eventual success and revenge. Whenever I felt lost in prison, I'd read some Dumas.

Tyson is based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6329585]

>>6329351
As much as I want to believe, isn't Nuke Tyson the bankrupt tiger-owner with a dumb tattoo on his face? I mean even Kanye West has a song sort of quoting Nietzsche, but that doesn't make him a (non-meme) intellectual.

[Anonymous No.6329589]

>>6329416
Kill yourself for insulting our King. You'll never be even a quarter as patrician as Tyson is.
>>/lit/thread/S5397950

[Anonymous No.6329596]

>>6329585
Shit, I wrote Nuke instead of Mike. Must e a good sign.

>oneday, the Ubermensch boxer will do the dance of the Eternal Return around his adversary

[Anonymous No.6329610]

We had a pretty good thread on Tyson a while back:

>>/lit/thread/S5397950

[Anonymous No.6329661]

[Anonymous No.6329808]

>>6329416

>He is not an athlete anymore

An athlete who retires is still an athlete. Just an athlete that has had to retire. He didn't magically lose his legacy as athlete.

Are you really doubting the validity of Mike fucking Tyson being an athlete?

[Anonymous No.6329814]

>>6329351
He's actually an extremely fascinating person

[Anonymous No.6329969]

Link to the OP article, if anyone wants:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303932504579256390785052798

[Anonymous No.6329997]

>>6329585
>>6329596
He's a surprisingly sharp man who's made plenty of poor decisions in his life.

[Anonymous No.6330040]

>>6329351
I read over 100 books a year and this was my favorite of 2014. Like Raging Bull, but bigger and better.

Give it a try, even if you think you hate him and hate boxing.

All of his fights are on youtube and you can watch his whole arc as you read. Can't recommend it too strongly.

[Anonymous No.6330137]

>>6329585
Definitions of intellectual vary of course, but Tyson is easily more well read than 99% of the world.

[Anonymous No.6330174]

>>6329351
I always felt that Tysons persona was just him living up to what the media painted him as and strong self loathing. I always felt for him when some cunt of a reporter tried to bait him into loosing his cool, cant imagine anything much can be more degrading

[Anonymous No.6330198]

>>6330174
>I'LL FUCK YOU TILL YOU LOVE ME FAGGOT

In his book he describes it as his take on a WWF bad guy persona mixed with villain lines he'd picked up from comic books

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.6330199]

>>6330137
I doubt it. If he were, he would have brought up concrete examples of the ideas he's read about.

>>6329387
Translation: I tried reading him but it was too hard so I stopped.

[Anonymous No.6330226]

>>6329578
That's pretty based. Malcolm X also read Durant during his prison time.

[Anonymous No.6330250]

>>6330199
How petty. Is the fascist upset that a negroid boxer is more patrician than he is?

[Anonymous No.6330253]

>>6330199
>If he were, he would have brought up concrete examples of the ideas he's read about.
He displayed a pretty clear understanding of the things he's read.
>Translation: I tried reading him but it was too hard so I stopped.
That's very disingenuous.

[Anonymous No.6330263]

>>6330199
Put your mother in a straight-jacket you punk ass white boy. Come here and tell me that, I'll fuck you in your ass you punk white boy. You faggot. You can't touch me, you're not man enough. I'll eat your asshole alive, you bitch. C'mon anybody in here can't fuck with this. This is the ultimate, man. Fuck you, you ho. Come and say it to my face.... I'll fuck you in the ass in front of everybody. You bitch.... come on, you bitch. You're scared coward, you're not man enough to fuck with me. You can't last two minutes in my world, bitch. Look at you scared now, you ho.... scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll fuck you 'til you love me, faggot!

[Anonymous No.6330266]

>>6330250
To play tripfag's advocate, he didn't really elaborate on what he'd read. >>6330253 says otherwise, but I personally couldn't find him mentioning anything beyond the author and sometimes a quick summary that anybody on the street could memorize.
His book might say something more about his 'intellectual side' but I can't find an epub of it.

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>>6329578
Nice.

[Anonymous No.6330284]

>>6330266
>To play tripfag's advocate, he didn't really elaborate on what he'd read

That's 99% of /lit/

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.6330440]

>>6330263
Black people always get their asses kicked in prison, because if a black person attacks a white or a Mexican person, both the whites and Mexicans will all start attacking the blacks en masse. If you're ever involved, it will make you feel pretty shitty, because sometimes one black guy will say something insulting and then all the black people get fucked up for it, some of them are just kids and really friendly, most depressing thing you will ever see, screaming and blood and pleading, black people being kicked to shit by people they were friends with two seconds ago.,

There are intellectual blacks, including in prison, I knew one whose favorite book was The Divine Comedy, but when they're talking about it, they go into some depth with one or two particular thinkers, they don't just drop a bunch of names.

[Anonymous No.6330481]

>>6330198
>>6330198
>I'LL FUCK YOU TILL YOU LOVE ME FAGGOT
Classic. Maybe one day when Tyson is more faded from the memory of the public someone write something with him a base for a character.

[Anonymous No.6330568]

>>6329578
I could help reading that in is voice hehe. Especially:
>I read Machiavelli
I can totally hear exactly how Iron Mike would say that.

That dude is based though, no doubt about it.

[Anonymous No.6330584]

>>6329578

Based Tyson.

Got punched in the head for a living and still 10 times more intelligent and well-read than the average Amerinigger

[Anonymous No.6330886]

>>6330040
pleb

[Anonymous No.6330909]

Andrea Petkovic

[Anonymous No.6331359]

>>6329585
He may have psychological issues, too much testosterone, financial difficulties and a dumb tattoo on his face, but that doesn't make him stupid.

[Anonymous No.6331697]

>>6330266

He may have poor speech skills. Sometimes you can understand everything in your mind but actually explaining it is hard work