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Anonymous Mon Oct 3 11:42:44 2016 No.8579010 [Reply] [Original]

Who is, bar none, the author with the best prose of all time?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 11:50:06 2016 No.8579035 In English? Joyce.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 11:52:16 2016 No.8579042 In English? me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 11:57:49 2016 No.8579064 >>8579035 >Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit and me gotafit and Oalgoak’s Cheloven gut a fudden. Povar old pitschobed! Molodeztious wew lad

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:02:29 2016 No.8579081 >>8579064 What did he mean by that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:04:41 2016 No.8579086 Bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:19:38 2016 No.8579149 >>8579010 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:21:05 2016 No.8579156 >>8579010 Gene Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:22:27 2016 No.8579162 Aside from myself I have no answer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:22:33 2016 No.8579163 Shake Spear

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:26:18 2016 No.8579175 >>8579035 Thomas Pynchon takes Joyce's Schizophrenic style and linguistic agility, improves on it, and uses it for actual characterization/social commentary. He is the best English writer of all time. Fight me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:39:08 2016 No.8579217 >>8579013 What did he mean by this?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:55:50 2016 No.8579270 >>8579010 Gene Wolfe is the best aesthetic writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:57:45 2016 No.8579274 Peake

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 12:58:08 2016 No.8579275 >>8579175 Pynchon is my favourite writer but if we're talking solely about prose Joyce's is objectively better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 13:01:16 2016 No.8579284 Melville you fucking plebs

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 13:02:26 2016 No.8579286 >>8579010 Herman Hesse

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 13:04:29 2016 No.8579294 >>8579284 Hahaha everyone point and laugh

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 13:08:47 2016 No.8579311 >>8579294 Sorry, meant to quote >>8579286

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 13:11:52 2016 No.8579315 >>8579311 No I didn't fuck off

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 14:14:04 2016 No.8579489 >>8579294 >>8579311 >>8579315 Am I being laughed at or not

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 14:19:38 2016 No.8579510 >>8579489 Of course, but not by us specifically.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 14:57:50 2016 No.8579644 >>8579510 As I thought

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 14:58:43 2016 No.8579645 John Updike

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 14:59:27 2016 No.8579648 Rabindranath Tagore

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:00:26 2016 No.8579651 Dylan Thomas >sloe black slow black

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:00:36 2016 No.8579653 >>8579035 >In English? That's a fucking bar you retard. How can anyone trust your opinion on writers when you clearly can't fucking read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:22:54 2016 No.8579699 >>8579645 Whats an updike?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:40:24 2016 No.8579748 Wouldn't it be a Nietzsche translation just because of the unparalleled clarity of thought? Is that not the chief aim of prose?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:46:03 2016 No.8579766 >>8579699 BIG LAUGH AHA

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:47:09 2016 No.8579773 >>8579748 >Is that not the chief aim of prose? No. Aesthetics are

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 15:50:06 2016 No.8579779 >>8579284 The motherfucking king of prose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 16:06:15 2016 No.8579828 >>8579156 >>8579270 Stop, Pinkyvivian

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 16:14:57 2016 No.8579851 >>8579010 Kafka tb,h

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 16:18:28 2016 No.8579861 >>8579035 >muh wombfruit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 16:23:18 2016 No.8579873 File: 48 KB, 400x462, 1475429780891.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I feel foolish stating the obvious, but clearly Burton is best