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9724574 No.9724574 [Reply] [Original]

you get to invite 5 writers to a dinner party. who would you invite? for me: (off the top of my head)
Shakespeare
Milton
Byron
Borges
Pynchon

>> No.9724583

If Henry Miller isn't a dinner guest your list needs revision.

>> No.9724586

this is a dumb wank-thread unless you also mention what conversation you'd have and how it might go.

>> No.9725185

>>9724574
Hunter S Thompson
Shakespeare
Goethe
Woolf
Rupi Kaur
Hunter would hook up with some mescaline/acid and we would go batshit cray cray, start an orgie and recitete Hamlet/Faust while banging our brains out

>> No.9725192

>>9724574
DFW

>> No.9725407

Rimbaud
I'm a simple man, one writer will be enough

>> No.9727066

>>9725407
Dickinson then. For a picnic.

>> No.9727088
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9727088

>>9724574
>dinner party between Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Borges, Pynchon
Basically a description of Infinite Jest

>> No.9727111

Zhuangzi
Voltaire
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rupi Kaur

>> No.9727116

Richard Ford
Philip Roth
John Updike
Saul Bellow
John Cheever

We would all get drunk, kvetch about women, and go home to our soon-ending marriages.

>> No.9727136

>>9724574
I would love to witness a conversation between Byron and Shakespeare

>> No.9727138

>>9724574
Tolkien
George RR Martin
H&R Block

>> No.9727153

>>9727111
kek