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Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:14:03 2015 No.7142215 [Reply] [Original]

Name me the greatest writer from each category

Blind
Committed suicide
Blonde
Fan of sports
Substance abuser
Fought in a war
Died in the past thirty years
Still alive
Most Fashionable

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:15:03 2015 No.7142218 File: 125 KB, 736x1104, 1442320149729.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] or skip whatever subject if you only wanna answer a couple

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:26:44 2015 No.7142243 File: 94 KB, 750x500, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142215 >suicide Our man DFW

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:35:14 2015 No.7142256 >>7142243 >not Socrates You fuckin memester

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:36:36 2015 No.7142262

>>7142215
Blind: Borges
Committed suicide: Yukio Mishima
Blonde: ?
Fan of sports: Umberto Eco (lol)
Substance abuser: William Burroughs
Fought in a war: Mao Zedong
Died in the past thirty years: Jean Baudrillard
Still alive: Zizek
Most Fashionable: L Ron Hubbard

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:41:45 2015 No.7142275 >>7142256 Socrates wasn't a writer. Am I being trolled gently?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 01:42:38 2015 No.7142278 >>7142275 Yes bby, don't fight it, just feed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:25:06 2015 No.7142350 >>7142275 this is /lit/ after all, how could you exclude the Greeks or other /lit/ figures

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:31:36 2015 No.7142363 >>7142350 Except Socrates didn't write anything

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:33:03 2015 No.7142366 File: 34 KB, 302x475, exley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142215 >Fan of sports Frederick Exley

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:33:40 2015 No.7142367 Blind- Milton Committed suicide- Hart Crane Blonde- uhh? Fan of sports- DeLillo Substance abuser- Burroughs Fought in a war- Tolstoy Died in the past thirty years- Borges Still alive- Pynchon Most fashionable- Knausgaard?

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:42:07 2015 No.7142383

>>7142218
who is this qt3.14?

Blind: Borges

Committed suicide: Mishima

Blonde: have no idea

Fan of sports: have no idea

Substance abuser: Bukowski.

Fought in a war: not sure, a lot of them did. Hitler maybe.

Died in the past thirty years: Also Borges I guess

Still alive: either Tao Lin or John Green

Most Fashionable: probably Oscar Wilde or some other dandy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:44:00 2015 No.7142387 >>7142215 Blind: me Committed suicide: soon me Blonde: me Fan of sports: me Substance abuser: me Fought in a war: me Died in the past thirty years: me Still alive: me Most Fashionable: normies get out

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:44:29 2015 No.7142390 >>7142367 blondes confirmed for terrible writers

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Mon Sep 21 02:47:43 2015 No.7142398 Homer (Yeah I know) Thomas Chatterton Francoise Sagan Nero Hunter S. Thompson Eric Blair Jackie Collins Ursula K. Le Guin Felix Dahn >>7142383 Seconding. Who is cutie? >>7142218

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:48:10 2015 No.7142400 Jane Smiley and Jennifer Egan are blondes. I can't recall any big classic authors who were blonde, though. Martin Amis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:53:51 2015 No.7142416 Nevermind, my memory is playing tricks on me. Amis isn't blonde. But I'm pretty sure George Saunders is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:57:39 2015 No.7142422 >>7142400 Are you just proving the blondes are dumb stereotype? Is there a correlation between blondes and low IQ?

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:01:19 2015 No.7142428

>>7142422
Hm? Do you think I'm the OP? I'm just a guy who made my list, couldn't think of anybody for the blonde slot, and now I'm trying to come up with people. But besides the women I named and Saunders, I can't come up with anything, despite my trying. Maybe somebody else can. Not trying to make a point.

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:02:09 2015 No.7142431

Blind: Borges
Committed suicide: Akutagawa
Blonde: I thought Sylvia was a blonde, but apparently she dyed it? I racked my brain for other options but couldn't think of any.
Fan of sports: Hemingway
Substance abuser: Bulgakov
Fought in a war: Marcus Aurelius
Died in the past thirty years: Borges
Still alive: Oe
Most Fashionable: Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:05:12 2015 No.7142435 File: 211 KB, 854x1280, 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142398 Lou Schoof

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:06:37 2015 No.7142437 lmao mods goin ham in dis bitch

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Mon Sep 21 03:07:18 2015 No.7142438 File: 35 KB, 650x366, astrid-jpg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142416 >George Saunders Kinda reddy brown. How about Joan Didion Astrid Lindgren looks it sometimes, sometimes not.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Mon Sep 21 03:10:41 2015 No.7142443 File: 69 KB, 790x1053, 383903-800w.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142435 Nice. Thanks. So petit. Could play a faerie folk.

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:14:15 2015 No.7142452

>>7142215
Blind: Huxley
Committed Suicide: David Foster Wallace
Blonde: me
Fan of sports: dunno
Substance abuser: Tao Lin
Fought in a war: Harold Innis
Died in the past thirty years: uhh J G Ballard
Still alive: Tao
Most Fashionable: The authors of Arabian Nights

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:24:48 2015 No.7142474 >>7142438 Joan Didion's hair is naturally dark, I think.

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:26:25 2015 No.7142479
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Blind
>homer

Committed suicide
>poe

Blonde
>kierkegaard

Fan of sports
>

Substance abuser
>coleridge

Fought in a war
>celine

Died in the past thirty years
>nabokov

Still alive
>pynchon

Most Fashionable
>camus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:30:53 2015 No.7142486 >>7142479 You could have used Camus for fan of sports as well, he was a huge football fan and was even in a semi professional league

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:33:00 2015 No.7142489 >>7142479 Celine looks like what I would imagine Satan as a human would look like. He just needs a goatee

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:34:11 2015 No.7142494 >>7142215 Blind: Borges Committed Suicide: DFW Blonde: Capote Fan of Sports: DeLillo Substance abuser: Bolano Fought in a war: Steinbeck (iirc?) Died in the past thirty years: Bolano Still alive: Murakami Most fashun: sontag tbh fam

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:36:52 2015 No.7142500 >>7142479 1. poe's death was mysterious, not ruled a suicide 2. nabokov died 38 years ago, not 30

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:38:47 2015 No.7142501 File: 464 KB, 600x857, 1432140723808.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142500 you are no fun. this isn't /sci/ where we have to be technically correct all the time

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:39:38 2015 No.7142505 >>7142501 sorry

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:42:15 2015 No.7142511 File: 1.55 MB, 2202x1830, blondes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142428 >>7142422 >>7142400 its definitely just you guys. this is off the top of my head.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:43:17 2015 No.7142516 >>7142489 tom waits has already got that position

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:43:37 2015 No.7142517 >>7142215 >Substance abuser totally forgot about Omar Khayyam. the man was based and drunk all the time.

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:44:52 2015 No.7142518

>Blind
Homer or Milton
>Committed suicide
Hart Crane
>Blonde
Hart Crane
>Fan of sports
Couldn't tell you
>Substance abuser
Hart Crane
>Fought in a war
Lord Byron
>Died in the past 30 years
Damn, I don't know. If you had said 40 years I'd have told you Ezra Pound or Auden. I'd have to check dates because I can't think of any significant authors I like that have died in the last thirty years.
>Still alive
Ashbery or Merwin
>Most fashionable
Pound is best looking but idk about his clothing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:46:17 2015 No.7142523 >>7142517 >taking poetry literally aren't you a smart one. protip: that was meant to be taken literally

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:49:48 2015 No.7142531 >>7142511 >you will never be both aryan and tormented by the memories of a love that might have been 1/2 is ok

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:53:47 2015 No.7142543 >>7142523 well it was written in olden times, that's why I assumed that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:59:21 2015 No.7142555 >>7142543 yes, and Odysseus really did blind a one eyed giant monster, having been written in olden times.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 05:48:26 2015 No.7142732 >>7142555 believe it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 14:41:57 2015 No.7144074 Blind: HOMER Committed suicide: DAZAI Blonde CANT THINK OF ANY Fan of sports CAMUS/ DFW Substance abuser PROUST Fought in a war BORGES Died in the past thirty years HEIDEGGER Still alive CORMCARTHY Most Fashionable: Chomsky from the Foucault debate

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 14:52:52 2015 No.7144110 File: 6 KB, 197x300, honored and horrified.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142215 >Most Fashionable skipping right past Tom Wolfe and his seersucker suit and mentioning Dandy Daniil Kharms

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:35:59 2015 No.7144690 >Blind Homer >Committed suicide Woolf >Blonde ? >Fan of sports ? >Substance abuser Thomas Browne >Fought in a war Cervantes >Died in the past thirty years WSB >Still alive Me >Most Fashionable Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:38:35 2015 No.7144695 >>7142256 Socrates didn't really kill himself. The State courts forced him to do that

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:39:06 2015 No.7144698 >>7142363 Or kill himself

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:44:37 2015 No.7144712 >>7142215 >Blind: Milton >Committed suicide: Nerval >Blonde: Was Ibsen blonde? >Fan of sports: Camus >Substance abuser: Baudelaire >Fought in a war: Gracq >Died in the past thirty years: Beckett >Still alive: Pynchon >Most Fashionable: Camus or Beckett

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 03:43:19 2015 No.7146419 >suicide John Kennedy Toole

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 03:44:18 2015 No.7146421 >>7144695 he could have gotten out easily. it was suicide

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 09:00:07 2015 No.7146879 >>7142215 >Blind Homer >Fan of sports Schopenhauer >Substance abuser Pessoa >Fought in a war Wittgenstein >Died in the past thirty years Gabo/Saramago >Still alive Banana man >Most Fashionable Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 09:05:02 2015 No.7146884 >>7146879 But was Homer a writer?

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Tue Sep 22 09:19:10 2015 No.7146905 >>7146884 No, but he was blonde and died in the last thirty years.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 09:28:18 2015 No.7146924 >Blind Milton >Committed suicide Woolf >Blonde N/A >Fan of sports Camus >Substance abuser Dickens >Fought in a war Ernst Jünger >Died in the past thirty years Borges >Still alive Alice Munro >Most Fashionable Beckett

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