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919695 No.919695 [Reply] [Original]

You can resurrect 3 writers from any time period. Who are they?

>> No.919699

Yukio Mishima

Just to piss him off

>> No.919698

Do they all have to be from the same time period? Or, can it be any three writers from any different period? Please clarify.

>> No.919703

>>919698
It doesn't matter if they're all in the same time period or not.

>> No.919707

Adolf Hitler
Julius Caesar
Joseph Stalin

>> No.919713

>>919707
ceasar never wrote anything....

>> No.919717

>>919699

One look at modern Japan and he'd kill himself all over again.

It'd be awesome.

>> No.919726

All right.

Nietzsche - I would love to hear his response to the advent of the logical positivists, the existentialists, and the post-modernists, and pragmatists. I don't think he's one of the greatest philosophers of all time (not in the sense that Kant or Aristotle might have been), but reading Nietzsche is just a joy to me, and I think he was a very capable critic.

Yes, it was a philosopher... I couldn't think of any other two that I was all that interested in, sorry.

>> No.919728

Hemingway
Cicero
Joyce or Wilde

>> No.919733

>>919713
Yes he did.

Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil wars survive. His poetry and other prose is mentioned is many historical sources, but have been lost.

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>>919733

>> No.919750

>>919726
>I think he was a very capable critic.

He was also a fucking lunatic. And not just towards the end of his life, when he was genuinely insane. His writings should not be taken seriously.

>> No.919757

Shakespeare, to prove the fucker exists

>> No.919758

Homer ( I'm gonna find out wheter that bitch was a greek or a celt)

Hemingway ( Because he's the greatest author that has been born )

And Hemingway again so there would be written twice as many Hemingway books

>> No.919759 [DELETED] 

>>919733
In those comments he says of all the people he conquered the Belgians were the bravest, fuck yeah.

>> No.919762

Marcus Aurellius
Voltaire
Dostoevsky

>> No.919765

>>919758
>Hemingway ( Because he's the greatest author that has been born )
Why did you have to clarify that?
Who's the greatest author who wasn't born?

>> No.919763

>>919744
You were trolling? Seriously, that was your best?

>> No.919769

Robert Jordan
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde

>> No.919770

Nobody, actually. But I would give someone eternal life, mehheheh.

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>>919750

>He was also a fucking lunatic

Why would you say that? Not disputing you, just curious why you would think that...

>> No.919773

>>919771
He did go insane, you know.

>> No.919775

>>919733
In those comments he says of all the Galli he conquered the Belgians were the bravest, fuck yeah, rest of europe, were you even trying?

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>>919763

>> No.919779

>>919744
So, you got a calm and educating response.

How maddening.

>> No.919784

Ambrose Bierce so I could ask him what happened to him in Mexico.

>> No.919789

i'd wait until richard dawkins died, wait three days, then bring him back

>> No.919791

>>919776
No, why do you think I'm mad?

>> No.919790

>>919784
>implying Bierce is dead

>> No.919795

>>919789
OH PRAISE THE LORD

>> No.919799

>>919789
I like your style.

>> No.919800

>>919789
oh man

the most trolled person out of all of that would be dawkins

>> No.919802

>>919790
Haha. I really wish he wasn't man. But he'd be probably almost 200 years old.

>> No.919804

>>919802
>But he'd be probably almost 200 years old.

I don't see a problem is with this.

>> No.919811
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>>919791

>> No.919814

Wilde

Twain

Orwell

>> No.919817

>>919804
Truth.

>> No.919819

darwin

>> No.919832

>>919811
I wonder if this guy ever made any OC,
inb4 U MAD?

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>>919832

>> No.919845

>>919773

I know that very well; the problem I had with the post (if you'd call it a problem at all) is that there's a difference between saying that Nietzsche shouldn't have been taken seriously maybe, I don't know, two years before he 'went' insane (which is somewhat reasonable), and saying that he was insane prior to actually 'going' insane, period (which is something that needs to be supported).

Also, what 'insane' is being talked about? Do you mean the cultural, bat shit crazy (nonsense) meaning of the word; or the psychological, he-wasn't-all-there, almost medical sense of the word?

That he shouldn't be taken seriously because he_eventually_went insane seems to be a stupid line of thought. Nietzsche's only irrelevant to philosophy if you're studying it in the analytic tradition (essentially). A lot of 20th century continental philosophers studied and incorporated Nietzschean ideas.

>> No.919860

Alan Watts
John the Baptist
Lao Tzu

>> No.919861

>>919845

When I ask about the meaning of 'insane' to you, I'm asking about what you mean when you say that he was a "lunatic" prior to going insane, not when he lost his mind. Should clarify that.

>> No.919884

Nabokov
Dali
Euripedes

I'd let Kafka rest in peace.

>> No.919961 [DELETED] 

George Orwell
Kafka
Shakespeare

>> No.919963

Orwell
Twain
Shakespeare

>> No.919990 [DELETED] 

Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams

Do you have any idea how complete my life would be if these guys were still cranking out books, making me laugh my ass off and making me think in new ways? I miss 'em, bros.
[spoilers];_;[/spoilers]

>> No.919993

Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams

Do you have any idea how complete my life would be if these guys were still cranking out books, making me laugh my ass off and making me think in new ways? I miss 'em, bros.
;_;

>> No.920053

Artaud
Kafka

Can't really decide on the third..it's a toss up between Bataille, Rimbaud, or Nietzsche.

>> No.920061

Kurt Vonnegut
Fyodor Dostoevsky
J. R. R. Tolkien

>> No.920072

Dostoevsky
Shakespeare
Joyce

>> No.920078

>>920053
This guy is my new favourite anon.
It'd have to be the teenage Rimbaud, otherwise you're not bringing back a writer.

I'd go for Tristan Tzara, Mayakovsky and Boris Vian probably.

>> No.920095

Soren Kierkegaard
Henry Kuttner
H.P. Lovecraft

>> No.920098 [DELETED] 

Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams

Do you have any idea how complete my life would be if these guys were still cranking out books, making me laugh my ass off and making me think in new ways? I miss 'em, bros.
;_;

>> No.920100

tripods aliens mars cylinder heat ray war worlds of the invisible ray of heat leapt from man to man and each was instantly turned to flame

YOU WRITE LIKE H.G.WELLS!

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>>920100

>> No.920121

Shakespeare is pretty much a given.
Noel Coward is next.
And then Hunter S. Thompson, just to piss him off.

>> No.920126

Albert Camus
Oscar Wilde
Jorge Luis Borges

>> No.922288

Shakespeare is a given. As well as Homer and Plato , in the hope of gaining more information on Greek mythology as well as other philosophers that existed at the time.

>> No.922306

you can only know so much about somethings that never happened

>> No.922307

knowing more about greek mythology

>> No.922331

>>919775
german here. do you even expect an answer to your question relating to the relations between the imperium romanum and the rest of the european tribes?

>> No.922336

George Alec Effinger (Needs to finish his last book)
Gary Gygax (World needs him)
J. R. R. Tolkien (Just to meet him, he can go back to sleep shortly if he wants)

>> No.922346

Galileo, Sartre, Voltaire

I want the modern world to have a new asshole torn as a result of them.

>> No.922349

Homer
Shakespeare
Either Orwell or Nietzsche

>> No.922357

William Shakespeare (I think he would write for television which would be a big up for t.v.)
William S. Burroughs (He should have never died in the first place)
Antonin Artaud (To destroy postmodernism, just like he destroyed modernism)

>> No.922404

Thoreau
Rand, for the lulz
Lovecraft

>> No.922434

I'd save one resurrection for George R. R. Martin. So when he croaks, he'd still be able to finish his A Song Of Ice And Fire series.

>> No.922437

>>922434
Good plan. I respect that.

>> No.922450

Also, I'm quite saddened that only one person brought up Douglas Adams.

>> No.922455

>>922450
Moar like Douglas U MAD?ams!

>> No.922897

fyodor
mikhailovich
dostoevsky

>> No.923116

Douglas Adams
Arthur C Clarke
Roger Zelazny

>> No.923129

Chesterton, Shakespeare, and... I don't know for the third, honestly. Probably Hannah Arendt.

>> No.923139

Voltaire
Miguel De Cervantes
Lord Byron

>> No.923142

Just Herman Melville, so I can talk to him about how great a city Liverpool is and tell him that Moby Dick was awesome, and then we can go for a pint together.

>> No.923178

Plato
Mark Hamilton
Jesus

>> No.923202

The prospect of a resurrected Voltaire unleashing his monstrous wit on contemporary society is giving me goosebumps! The man was such a quick learner too - as evinced by the speed with which he mastered the English language - he'd be far better equipped than most historical figures to acquaint himself with modern life.

>> No.923295
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jesus christ (wrote the bible)

obama (not dead yet, but im guessing assassinashun)

chuck palaihinuik (prolly like a pill overdose or some other common suicide.)

>> No.923317

Joyce(have a crush on him)
Kafka(My favorite author)
Wilde(witty and snazzy as hell)

>> No.923318

>>923295
0/10

>> No.923329

>>923317

Hope you're ready to shit yourself for Joyce's love.

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>>923178

>writer
>Jesus

>> No.923402

>>919773
That tends to happen when you get syphilis.

>> No.923417

Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates.
Orwell, Rand, and Marx.
Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky.

You let "writer" be enormously ambiguous.

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>Hunter S Thompson
To troll the living fuck out of him and, on a more serious note, because I think we need more people like him in our current political climate.
>Phillip K Dick
This guy would be a massive trip to talk to. Plus Id like to see his opinion on Blade Runner.
>Mark Twain
Because I want to hear a conversation between Mark Twain and Hunter S Thompson.

>> No.923518

>>923417
>Lenin
makes sense
>Stalin, Trotsky
fullretard.jpg
Unless you just wanted to put them in a room together Huis Clos style, possibly ending in some sort of deathmatch. Hmm...

>> No.923543

Kurt Vonnegut
Oscar Wilde
Kafka
I'm surprised no one has said Jesus yet.

>> No.923561

Jesus didn't write anything.....

>> No.923567

>>923561
hello, the gospels, duh

>> No.923572

>>919699
GAHAHAHA
Oh god

>> No.923577

>>923561
Should have clarified. I thought that trolls would bring back a bunch of religious figures.

>> No.923588

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale - Jenna Jameson

>> No.923590

>>923577
>be stupid
>blame trolls

>> No.923611

my mom and dad and I think they wrote things every now and then

>> No.923730

>>923611

;_;

>> No.923854

Robert Louis Stevenson. And then, Terry Pratchett and Harlan Ellison. Pre-emptively, that is. Those guys are getting on. :(

>> No.923874

Roger Zelazny
Mervyn Peake
Voltaire, just to see his reactions to various things in 2010.