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You are being forced to spend a year living in a small flat with any author or philosopher from history. Choose wisely.

>> No.7219627

Franz Kafka in the early days
He seems pretty quiet, and I hate loud roommates.
Plus we can talk about Judaism together

>> No.7219635

>>7219562
Nietzsche.

>> No.7219649

>>7219562
Hume, cos he was a cheeky fucker and apparently "lived dangerously"

>> No.7219670

>>7219562
Flannery O'Connor.
She seems interesting enough to me.
Plus I prefer to live with women, so...

>> No.7219718

Tolstoy or maybe Murakami.

>> No.7219719

>>7219562
Gonna probably be Nietzsche or Plato.

>> No.7219730

David Foster Wallace. Great conversation and a powerful pussy magnet.

>> No.7219738
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Descartes, I'd just keep all the windows open and set my alarm clock for early in the morning and I'd probably be rid of him in a few months.

>> No.7219740

Benjamin Franklin. Great conversation and a powerful pussy magnet.

>> No.7219836

Shelley

>> No.7219890

The Greeks.Great conversation and a powerful pussy magnet.

>> No.7219899

Rimbaud for reasons that can be guessed. Or Zadie Smith for similar reasons.

>> No.7221381

He who did no wrong.

>> No.7221427

>>7221381
Kant?

>> No.7221433

>>7219562
christopher hitchens ..come at me

>> No.7221447

Zizek. Great conversation.

>> No.7221450

>>7221427
>>7221433
>>7219719
>>7219635
>>7219627
Do you like to suffer?

>>7219890
That would get pretty cramped pretty quickly

>> No.7221454

>>7221447
>and so on and so on

>> No.7221482

>>7219899
you want to sodomize Zadie?

>> No.7221483

I call shotgun on Marx. I'm converted to communist fully last year now because I'm an adult man now (I buy beer) with a mature thinking apparatus.

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>>7219562
Albert Camus obviously.

>> No.7221499

Schopenhauer, who seems vitriolic and easy to anger. We'd understand each other well enough.

>> No.7221504

>>7219562

Tibor Fischer

He's my lecturer so I guess it wouldn't be that awkward/difficult. Could be fun.

>> No.7221522

Katie Price

>> No.7221525

>>7219562
Boris Pasternak

>> No.7221526

>>7219627
>quiet
Literally had neighbors complain about how much he laughed when he wrote his stories.

>> No.7221531

>>7219562
Sasha Grey
/thread

>> No.7221540
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7221540

Keats

We could talk about beauty/aesthetics without him being a dick about it like that Byron jerk.

>> No.7221543

Pynchon or Joyce: we could drink, do drugs, and discuss fetishes.

>> No.7221546

>>7221447

>Open the fridge
>It's full of Zizek's unsold books

ZIZEEEEEEEEEEK!

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Sasha Grey

>They all picked dudes

>> No.7221569

>>7221526
not that man, but as myself I would enjoy that.

>> No.7221618

>>7221531
I wonder if you'll end up getting Stockholm syndrome and being ok with her being stupid, or murder her.

>> No.7221645

>>7219635
>>7219719
why would anyone pick Nietzsche? He sounds like the most miserable person you could pick. Plus your house would smell like fruit peels

>> No.7221848

de Sade

>> No.7221853

Bret Easton Ellis. We could watch movies all day and occasionally he would invite Marilyn Manson over for dinner.

>> No.7221858

>>7221559
I bet she does a lot of fun drugs too.

>> No.7221859

>>7219562
zen master nansen
we could cut some cats together

>> No.7221934

Edward Bernays.

>> No.7221951

>>7219836
...Mary or Percy?

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>>7221559
>>7221531

Only Patricians in this thread to be honest (tbh).

What sort of fucking weirdo wants to spend a year living in a small flat with someone like Kant or Zizek?

Laughing like a motherfucker at you plebs.

>> No.7221956

John Rawls. We would have lengthy discussions on reforming society.

>> No.7221970

B R A U T I G A N
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G A N B R A U T I
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>> No.7221972

Dante, definitely. He would be my intellectual master.

>> No.7221973

>>7221970
he wouldn't let you leave either. good call

>> No.7221976

How about a young Woolf? She was an excellent writer with a profound aesthetic AND a huge qt. Although come to think of it, she may not be very open to that and reluctant to impart her artistic ideas to me because she wouldn't have ***A ROOM OF HER OWN***, so on second thought, maybe Joyce. If I were to act sufficiently servile towards him then maybe he'd impart to me the profound workings of his mind so I could mimic them and become remembered forever like he, I'm sure, will be. It'd probably be quite difficult to live in the same house with him for a whole year, though, since he was notoriously quick to find a reason to break off all ties with his friends.

>> No.7221977

>>7221645
A year with a GOAT philosopher to mentor under? Who gives a shit if you it isn't comfy. It would be probably be a life changing experience to engage with one of the greatest minds of all time.

>tfw you will never will never argue with Nietzsche till 3 in the morning about philosophy

>> No.7221981

Sylvia Plath.

She'll kill herself, and then I'll have it all to myself.

>> No.7221986

>>7221853
I agree, we could do coke together and laugh about being self-loathing faggots, then fuck and feel miserable about it, and do some more coke.

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>>7219730

>> No.7221989

I'm already only reading Hegel for the most time anyway.

>> No.7222009

I imagine Schiller would be awesome. Great poetry, lovely, charitable fellow, by all accounts a pretty nice guy, except that thing about Minna.

>> No.7222024

>>7219562
Freud, of course, for the sake of coke

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>>7221977

>He thinks he can be converted to a patrician by being around even though he is deep in pleb territory
>He can't even speak German
>He'd pick some dude instead of fucking a pornstar (Sasha Grey) for a year straight, which would be more life changing

>> No.7222039

>>7222024
>Sigmund I think I'm addicted to all this morphine you've been giving me
>ACH SCHWACHSINN HIER KOKAIN
Would be pretty cool.

>> No.7222044

>>7219562
Sam Hyde, the voice of our generation.

>> No.7222050

>>7221543
But Joyce would stink up your house with all those flatulent women.

>> No.7222056

>>7222044
whoever that big breasted "voice of our generation" Tao Lin chick is is my answer

>> No.7222064

Nietzsche after the mental breakdown, and I would wear one of those accouterments horse masks the entire duration and hear him wail at me: "I understand! I understand!" as I constantly beat the living shit out of him.

>> No.7222095

>>7222056
Youre a liar theres no such person. what evidence can you provide. I challenge you to produce a link.

>> No.7222145

>>7222034
>wanting to fuck a pornstar

Absolutely disgusting, why is this something people desire?

Give me Zadie Smith pls

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7222171

Easy. Harold Bloom. Would cook and clean for him, in exchange I could be present when he chants poetry and could hear him elaborate on literature. Not now though, he is very old, which makes me sad... Possibly in the late 50's, early 60's.

>> No.7222178

>>7222034
>more life changing
very doubtful

>> No.7222185

>>7222145

Why wouldn't you want to?

>Pro at sex and giving head
>Always down to fuck
>No STDs because they get checked regularly
>Has pornstar friends

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7222199

Why isn't anyone in our chatroom?

http://tinychat dot com slash 4chanlit

>> No.7222227

>>7221433
me too. Hitchens 10/10

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>> No.7222251

>>7222185
it's very telling that you would use a magical scenario to have sex with an attractive girl, as if that's the only way it could ever happen.

>> No.7222288

>>7219890
>>7219719
>plato/greeks

The only type of correct answer.

Why have authors/philosophers that we know so much about?

It would be far more interesting to share a house with Heraclitus, Aristotle, Siddhartha Gautama, a scribe from the library of alexandria or anyone else whom we have only have partial knowlege of.

>> No.7222298

>nobody said shakespeare
>literature board

>> No.7222302

>>7222288
>>plato
>wanting to live with a homo wrestler who will watch you in your sleep and go into a jealous rage if you talk to anyone else
it's a choice i guess

>> No.7222316

If we count Marcus Aurelius I think he'd be pretty chill.
Of course, my Latin is horrible so we'd probably just nod at each other politely during breakfast or something.

>> No.7222320

God.

>> No.7222328

>>7222316
I wouldn't bother learning Latin for him, since he spoke Greek. You know, in case you two do ever have breakfast.

>> No.7222338

>>7222328
My Greek is just as horrible as my Latin, alas.

>> No.7222339

Clearly, and I mean CLEARLY, the best choice would be Henry Miller. Dude truly lived.

Second best is Pound.

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>>7222095
I just had to dig up an old thread. whoever this chick is.

>> No.7222402

>>7222302

>Not wanting to wrestle around with your bro

>talking to people
>Not reclusing in your home while you write literature inspired by conversations with the world's greatest philosopher

>> No.7222420

>>7221504
Where is he teaching?

>> No.7222435

>>7222345
Marie Calloway is her name

>> No.7222436

emily dickinson

>> No.7222445

>>7222345
>>7222095
Marie Calloway, lads.

>> No.7222476

>>7222402
>the world's greatest philosopher
inspired by plato's conversations with the world's greatest philosopher, or are you calling plato the world's greatest philosopher?

>> No.7222560

>>7219562
Carson McCullers for fucking(,) sure

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>>7221482
duhh

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7222593

murasaki shikibu

>> No.7222932

>>7219740
In his younger years right? His mental degerneration would keep him talking all the god damn while that it distracted the conventions cause he was just talking smack for any particular reason

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>>7222593
Good choice, but I'm going to go with Sei Shōnagon.

>> No.7223021

William s Burroughs during the "bunker" years

Runners up:
With Phillip k dick right after the Valis incident

William Gibson two chapters into Neuromancer in the 1980's

With Robert e Howard during his last year. The final day will be June 11th 1936 when he pulls the trigger

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7223041

Wait.
How has no one said Epicurus?

>> No.7223059

Elaine Pagels tbh

>> No.7223090

>>7222942
Why? She's a fucking bitch.

>> No.7223097

>>7223090
maybe they're planning on dressing as the empress

>> No.7223139

>>7221977
Nietzche wouldn't have the health to stay up until 3 am to talk. He'd probably spend half the night on his bed trying to soothe his headache.

And he probably wouldn't have the patience to mentor you either.

On the plus side he would be easy to strongarm out of the flat when you need to be alone.

>>7219562
Perec. Nice chill dude, can speak my native language, share my love for puns and wouldn't be too intrusive. Plus he'd be used to be around stemfags. And since I have barely read him I wouldn't annoy him too much with childish admiration.

>> No.7223151

>>7222251
It's not very telling. People like the idea of sex, with or without magical scenario.

>> No.7223152

>>7219562
Faulkner

>> No.7223157

>>7219562
Yeshua

>> No.7223263

melville
we'd have sleepovers in the same bed. no homo.

>> No.7223267

>>7223139
he stayed up for 3-4 days on end writing, often times trying to find the 'perfect' combination of words - to stay awake, he would take blocks of ice and put them in buckets, put his feet in the buckets, and have the cold keep him awake.

so yeah he'd stay up all night with us

>> No.7223303

>>7219562
Keroac or Hemingway.

The former for drugs and crazy energy. The later for great liquor and kickass hunting trips

>> No.7223320

Hesse and I would go together so perfectly.

>> No.7223328

>>7223267
This is oddly reminding of a story I heard about a famous talmud scholar. Was Nietzsche a closet Jew ?

>> No.7223332

>>7223303
>Hemingway
>Kickass hunting trips

Yeah, if you like shooting the second best animals.

I'd pick Asimov.
We could talk about science n' shit.

>> No.7223360

>>7223152
Enjoy the drunken ranting and screaming

>> No.7223367

>>7219562
Pynchon so we can be shut-ins together.

>> No.7223392

Julius Caesar. He could tell me all about Gaul and we could laugh at Cicero, and every night we could cuddle.

>> No.7223402

Deleuze. Or Derrida.

>> No.7223482

>>7223041
This. Most chill dude, and great conversation partner. Also you'd get to find out what he actually wrote in his now lost books.

>> No.7223502

Sappho so I can have consensual sex with her.

>> No.7223552

>>7223139
Nietzsche was a horribly lonely man who was never properly appreciated for his work. I think he would welcome the opportunity to discuss his philosophy with an admiring and dedicated audience.

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>>7222185
>>7222034
>>7221559
>>7221531
> PROTIP: sasha grey has gonorrhea
>http://www.alternet.org/story/150361/should_the_porn_industry_require_protection

>> No.7223612

>>7223603
>gonorrhea
That's curable tho

>> No.7223714

Pynchon so we can watch cartoons on pot all day
every day.

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>>7221546
>Implying he wouldn't regularly stock it with Cokes.

>> No.7223803

>>7223502
L O N D O N

>> No.7223805

>>7223780
Zizek would be a case of a man that would be capable of ironically drinking a beverage.

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>>7219562

Young Anais Nin.

We fuck all year.

>> No.7223815

Alan Ginsburg. Nothing but drugs, gay sex, and beat poetry. Or Kerouac, either one would come with a lot of drugs.

>> No.7223833 [DELETED] 

>>7222345
>>7222435
>>7222445

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>> No.7223847

>>7223833
>present
Well not that thread at all jesus christmas, but looks like I'll enjoy this site.

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>>7219562
Saul Kripke or some other top-tier logician so they would force-feed me the ways of the universe out of autistic compulsion.

For fun and improving my writing I'd choose Pynchon, two fat bales of dank kush, a huge TV and a ton of graph paper.

>> No.7223870

>>7223805
He'd probably binge drink it and weep openly late into the night with regular pee brakes, exclaiming "My got, sniff... I do not still know if I am still drinking this ironically or not, and so on and so on...".

>> No.7223885

Oscar Wilde

>> No.7223904

Well, you all fucking lose cuz I pick the author of The Bible: God.

heavenly hax ggwp

>> No.7223919

Sylvia plath tbh
I'd be a good counter to her, were opposites but not really at the same time

>> No.7223981

>>7221381
Hitler?

>> No.7224439

>>7223041
this tbh

>> No.7224459

>>7219562
de Sade

>> No.7224462

>>7223151
Possibly but maybe not to such an extent. In any case, why would you waste that time on just having sex with a woman.

>> No.7225062

>>7219562
epicurus obv fam

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Young Patrick White. We'd defs fuck

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>"evolotionary racist"
>boypussy
>honest, straight-out
>would love me just because of my ethnicity/phenotype

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>>7219562
Pellico.
He was a gentleman, a scholar, and a bro.

>> No.7225200

>>7219562
David Foster Wallace
>Watch movies all day
>Chill and get addicted to Cannabis[1]
>Audience pussy
>Do ironic stuff unironically
>Study obscure tax laws all day and write lengthy footnotes about them

1) Cannabis referring to Cannabis indica, known for it's sedative qualities, due to the ratio of CBD:THC