Name an author who could out drink Hemingway. (you can't)

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Anonymous Tue Oct 27 14:58:51 2015 No.7290593 [Reply] [Original]

Name an author who could out drink Hemingway.
(you can't)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 14:59:40 2015 No.7290595 Nigga luk lyk Neal DeGrasse Tyson tbh

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:01:54 2015 No.7290604 >>7290595 Marlon Brando as the Godfather wearing a really thin poorly made mask of Neil DeGrasse Tyson

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:26:05 2015 No.7290676 i read a profile of Hemingway written in the new yorker i think and it is obvious to tell the man had a sad drinking problem back in the day by today's standards.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:27:48 2015 No.7290683 >>7290593 Faulkner, all day every day.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:27:54 2015 No.7290684 Malcolm Lowry could compete

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:28:44 2015 No.7290689 >>7290593 Dashiell Hammett.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:33:43 2015 No.7290708 File: 21 KB, 300x450, Malcolm_Lowry_in_1946.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7290684 >>7290593 This. Hemingway would die before he caught up to Lowry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:36:26 2015 No.7290719 gee, that was hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11YjgY-BPaY

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:37:18 2015 No.7290722 Dylan Thomas

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:37:56 2015 No.7290726 >>7290708 Yeah, Lowry drank like 5 litres of Alcohol a day

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 15:45:21 2015 No.7290758 >>7290722 Them 18 whiskeys

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 16:12:04 2015 No.7290874 >>7290758 I don't get why people are impressed with that. It's pretty standard fare for a drunk.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 16:48:35 2015 No.7291034 i drink maybe 400ml/day. I have no idea how these guys go harder. maybe it isn't as potent to them? It is borderline selfabuse to me already with how much pain/dizziness/hangover it causes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 16:50:14 2015 No.7291046 >>7291034 oh to add i prob could have read a couple hundred more books at nights if i wasn't too drunk to read 300 evenings a year. but i get the feeling these guys are so genius level they don't even need to read to be great at it

Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:02:09 2015 No.7291078

>>7290593
Guy Debord.

He claimed he was continuously drunk for months. May explain why he was such a commie.

To give an example, Debord wrote off his own consumption of alcohol, just for the day of 9 may 1962:

>3 litres of wine
>2 litres of beer
>1/2 litre of other alcohols

(See p. 597 of his works edited by Quarto/Gallimard.)

Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:05:21 2015 No.7291092
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>>7291078
Guy Debord wrote about his own drunkenness in these terms:

>AFTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES that I have just recalled, it is no doubt the quickly acquired habit of drinking that has marked my entire life. Wines, spirits and beers: the moments when some of them became essential and the moments when they returned have traced out the main course and meanders of days, weeks and years. Two or three other passions, which I will talk about, have almost continually taken up a lot of space in this life. But drinking has been the most constant and the most present. Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. I can count myself among those of whom Baltasar Gracián, thinking about an elite distinguishable only among the Germans — but here very unfair, to the detriment of the French, as I think I have shown — could say: “There are those who have got drunk only once, but it has lasted them a lifetime.” (...)

>First, like everyone, I appreciated the effect of slight drunkenness; then very soon I grew to like what lies beyond violent drunkenness, when one has passed that stage: a magnificent and terrible peace, the true taste of the passage of time. Although in the first decades I may have allowed only slight indications to appear once or twice a week, it is a fact that I have been continuously drunk for periods of several months; and the rest of the time, I still drank a lot.

Check "Panegyric" (1989), easy to find in translation for free.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:07:33 2015 No.7291104 >>7290593 Hunter S. Thompson.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:08:51 2015 No.7291107 >>7290593 Charles Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:13:38 2015 No.7291130 David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:20:33 2015 No.7291156 >>7290593 me

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:21:15 2015 No.7291159 >>7291078 That's what Hemingway consumes before breakfast in The Sun Also Rises.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:25:30 2015 No.7291181 so far most of the ppl listed also committed suicide tho

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 17:25:53 2015 No.7291186 >>7291159 There is also 15 or 20 other cocktails or liquors on Debord's list for this day, but I can't quantify how much alcohol they weigh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 21:45:10 2015 No.7292265 Obviously me

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 21:49:29 2015 No.7292285 >>7290593 Socrates

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 21:50:25 2015 No.7292290 Raymond Chandler

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 23:38:06 2015 No.7292702 Bukowski?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 23:39:11 2015 No.7292703 Hemingway was tall and heavy, it's not fair tbh Still I think shakespeare could compete

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 00:01:36 2015 No.7292795 Capote

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 00:12:36 2015 No.7292839 Bukowski Bitches and Hunter S. Thompson

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 00:13:10 2015 No.7292841 Your ugly fucking cunt of a mother you stupid cunt

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 00:13:13 2015 No.7292843 Jack Kerouac.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 05:44:37 2015 No.7293629 Krúdy

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 05:58:33 2015 No.7293644 File: 659 KB, 2328x3000, 1446026313579.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7290593 :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:05:51 2015 No.7293653 >>7293644 I don't want to ruin the it by asking for an explanation, but is this a river death joke?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:11:45 2015 No.7293657 >>7290726 5 liters of what? if beer, then im even above his ass and i only start drinking at 5.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:13:12 2015 No.7293659 >>7290593 im going for bukowski.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:13:47 2015 No.7293660 >>7293644 tbh, she has that drinking bitch look which alcohol abusing women tend to have like my ex

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:22:57 2015 No.7293670 >>7292841 you motherfucker ill fucking kill you you fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:24:00 2015 No.7293671 >>7293653 What, were you it to be something classy instead?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:31:16 2015 No.7293686 >>7293671 No, I just wanted to know if that's what you were going for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:42:58 2015 No.7293696 >>7290593 >ctrl+f melville >0 results

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:45:42 2015 No.7293700 >>7293657 Lowry was likely a liquor and wine man.

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 06:54:04 2015 No.7293712

>Hemingway goes to war in Spain
It was so sad, I banged local girls, hid out in the woods, and came back with a qt wife. isn't my life sad, isn't war sad.

>Orwell goes to war in Spain
I had to teach a bunch of 15 year olds how to shoot, led a militia, had to endure trench warfare before getting a sniper bullet through the neck, saw my friends die, and had to flee for my life. 10/10, would go back.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 08:13:25 2015 No.7293846 Brendan Behan But he had pretty much lost his talent by the end. Sean O'Riada, while not a writer died in his prime after a promising short career

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 08:25:14 2015 No.7293870 >>7293712 Hemmmingway is a MAN'S MAN

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 08:26:02 2015 No.7293874 Probably Dylan Thomas or Kerouac?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 08:28:17 2015 No.7293879 >>7291092 If he didn't drink so much he could have produced so much more fuck I can't even judge him, I'd stay drunk for months on time if I could

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:14:51 2015 No.7293960

>>7290593
Why do people think this is an achievement?

All it proves is that this faggot had no self control, and was too weak to face life as it is. Ironic, considering all his faux masculinity garbage.

Yes I'm aware he could probably beat me up, but I'd still be right.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:31:04 2015 No.7294014 >>7290595 >>7290604 I was thinking more along the lines of a chubby Walt Disney

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:32:12 2015 No.7294019 Why has nobody said Joyce?

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:34:17 2015 No.7294023
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>Hunter hit his stride early. At his first meeting with his New York publishers, they watched in amazement as young Hunter poured down 20 double Wild Turkeys in three hours (on their tab, of course), then walk out as if he’d been sipping tea.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:47:09 2015 No.7294063 >talking about consuming alcohol as some epitome of manliness and strength Wow, /lit/. Wow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 09:54:31 2015 No.7294079 >>7294063 Fucking right, its the current year after all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 11:29:14 2015 No.7294306 >>7293712 The miserable nature of Homage to Catalonia is described so goddamn vividly it evokes a bittersweet nostalgia for something I can't possibly relate to. Really Orwell's best work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 13:28:35 2015 No.7294604 >>7293712 That's the difference between an American man and an Englishman in a nutshell.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:52:56 2015 No.7295057 >>7290593 Me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:58:14 2015 No.7295081 >>7294063 >tfw you realize that no where in this thread has the drinking been construed as manly or strong, and that you are merely projecting your own ridiculous preconceptions onto everything Wew lad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 15:59:34 2015 No.7295087 File: 35 KB, 800x670, 189371931312451.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Myself, an Australian alcoholic. Basically just an Australian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:00:03 2015 No.7295089 >>7294023 I have a feeling that the reason Hunter gives off the impression of being able to drink so much is that the fact that he always looks and sounds pissed anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:00:30 2015 No.7295093 File: 80 KB, 620x691, hunter_s_thompson_daily_routine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7291104 This is the official right answer. Nobody can beat pic related.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:02:09 2015 No.7295101 >>7295089 I'm pretty sure it's all the cocaine,

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 16:04:43 2015 No.7295111

>>7293960

>All it proves is that this faggot had no self control, and was too weak to face life as it is. Ironic, considering all his faux masculinity garbage.

Really, the ironic thing is that a millennial is judging a decorated three-time war veteran who was gravely wounded several times and suffered severe personal tragedy the magnitude of which few men can even imagine as "too weak to face life" on an internet imageboard.

You massive fucboi.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 03:58:02 2015 No.7297359 >>7294306 finally someone who agrees

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:02:03 2015 No.7297368 >>7295111 Woah woah not the guy youre responding to but if i'm not mistaken ernest never even saw active combat, lmao man. fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:04:45 2015 No.7297374 File: 32 KB, 447x456, 1445718466999.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7295111 whoof

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:37:14 2015 No.7297415

>>7295111

I agree with the sentiment, but there is something you should know.

>he never served in any military of any country except for a bullshit "commission" from the Cuban government to "hunt submarines" (drinking and tuna fishing)

He did drive ambulances in the Italian campaign of WW1. That was probably rough. Can't take that away from him.

Most of his image was complete bullshit that he sought to maintain.

That being said, I agree with you that this board is full of European pussies who pretend to have experienced enough hardship to write about the human experience.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:44:54 2015 No.7297429 >>7297368 he got his leg fucked up by a mortar at the italian front, fuck off with this active combat bullshit

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:05:11 2015 No.7297453 >>7294063 It's 2015

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 13:13:02 2015 No.7298474 >>7293846 Don't forget Flann O'Brien

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 13:31:03 2015 No.7298506
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>>7295087
Any writer from this glorious nation tbh

Patrick White probs could
Henry Lawson defs could
Xavier Herbert defs could
Helen Garner probs can
Les Murray defs can
David Malouf's a leb cunt
Peter Carey maybe can
Actually Peter Singer probs can't
Richard Flanagan probs can
Gerald Murnane defs can
Miles Franklin defs could

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:11:59 2015 No.7298854 F. Scott Fitzgerald But honestly, Hemingway was an insecure little bitch. Most of his /lit/ peers could out drink him

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:13:58 2015 No.7298862 File: 3 KB, 121x90, Thumbs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7293712 Excellent post.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:26:08 2015 No.7298896 >>7290593 Bukowski, Fitzgerald, and maybe HST.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 15:32:28 2015 No.7298914 File: 3.76 MB, 4096x4069, le behan face.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymouse Thu Oct 29 20:08:48 2015 No.7299995 File: 66 KB, 600x450, 1201184416689_313.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jack Kerouac drank so much that he drank himself to death, so there's that

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:14:06 2015 No.7300008 Frederick Exley Richard Yates Raymond Carver John Cheever

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:23:19 2015 No.7300027 >>7293657 Lowry was literally a rubbing alcohol and hairspray drinking man, dude did not want to be seeing life sober

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:27:23 2015 No.7300040 I've never met a fellow really heavy drinker. what's it like?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:06:50 2015 No.7300162 >>7290593 I can't name an author that could out drink Hemingway but I could name a lot of authors that could out-"not-shoot-yourself-in-the-head-with-a-shotgun" Hemingway lmfao.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:10:24 2015 No.7300181 Are. There any authors who were notorious for writing whilst drunk?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:16:39 2015 No.7300204 Dan Harmon

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:19:22 2015 No.7300216 >>7290593 >Name an author who could out drink Hemingway. Me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:31:43 2015 No.7300253 >>7300216 >anyone on /lit/ >author

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:32:07 2015 No.7300255 >>7299995 He probably drank himself into a sugar coma with al the port he put away.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:35:49 2015 No.7300272 >>7294604 english people are known to be soft as fuck tbh hemingway took a bullet, while orwell was bitching about having to shoot a poor little elephant :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:37:08 2015 No.7300274 >>7298506 >Any writer from this glorious nation tbh >australian >writer pick one lad

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:44:04 2015 No.7300291 "Write drunk. Edit Sober"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:44:37 2015 No.7300297 >>7300253 I'm published, nigger, fight me. It may not be in physical print, but it still counts, r-right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:45:13 2015 No.7300299 >>7300291 bad meme

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:45:33 2015 No.7300301 File: 197 KB, 1536x1021, o-HEMMINGWAY-facebook.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 'Write drunk, edit sober"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 21:48:09 2015 No.7300313 >>7295081 I'm glad someone recognized that. Jesus what retarded response to the thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 22:33:17 2015 No.7300467 >>7300301 fucking retard

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