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Anonymous Tue May 5 14:24:19 2015 No.6498890 [Reply] [Original]

Dante had his author self-insert be guided around Hell and Purgatory by Virgil, his idol. Shelley did the same thing with Rousseau in The Triumph of Life.

If you were to write a fantastical allegorical adventure in epic, which famous author would be your guide?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 14:26:17 2015 No.6498901 >>6498890 Probably Pinecone.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 14:26:39 2015 No.6498902 None, because that shit's tacky. It may have been cool hundreds of years ago, but this shit's bald and stupid, now.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:38:15 2015 No.6499319 I'll be the dead author guiding the famous author that I will inspire.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:42:18 2015 No.6499334 Dostoevsky We'd get drunk and gamble together, but when the topic of the Bible gets brought up, shit's gonna get real.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:43:28 2015 No.6499345 >>6498890 Ezra "Right In the Pussy" Pound

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:44:57 2015 No.6499356 Rimbuad

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:45:55 2015 No.6499361 Hitler

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:46:31 2015 No.6499363 While I think there's still more strength in choosing a greek author because greek traditions have become the myths of modernity, it would be fun to write Hunter Thompson guiding someone as spineless as me through horrible situations.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:47:50 2015 No.6499367 whitman we'd fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:49:05 2015 No.6499373 Gelett Burgess. We'd fuck up those bromide goops. And it would be written as one long nonsense poem.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:50:16 2015 No.6499379 >>6498890 Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:50:32 2015 No.6499380 Dante, then I get him AND Virgil. Pretty clever thinking.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:50:49 2015 No.6499382 >>6498890 Borges (blind version)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 15:56:20 2015 No.6499404 Joyce.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 16:03:59 2015 No.6499443 Tao Lin

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