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James Franco is a near-infinite amount more likely to win a Pulitzer than you are, and James Franco is never going to win a Pulitzer

>> No.1602745

> James Franco is a near-infinite amount more likely to win a Pulitzer than you are
that's not really true

>> No.1602751

>implying anyone cares about pulitzer prize winners
nobel is where it's at

>> No.1602759

>>1602751
if someone on 4chan wins a Nobel ever I will literally saw off my own penis with a plastic butterknife

>> No.1602761

>implying I would ever want to win an award named after a person responsible for the creation of yellow journalism

>> No.1602762

>>1602759
You really think no Nobel laureate has ever visited 4chan?

>> No.1602765

yeah he's cute

>> No.1602767

>>1602762
Yeah, I really do.

>> No.1602768

why won't he ever win one, he writes?

>> No.1602770

happy for him and imma let him finish but michael chabon was the best superdreamy bicurious pulitzer winner of all time

>> No.1602772

>implying I don't write to be self-indulgent and so I can sound cool to my friends when I tell them I'm busy writing

He thinks I believe in myself!
laughinggirls.jpg

>> No.1602773

>>1602762
Good point, everyone knows Doris Lessing is /tv/'s most notorious iCarly pedo

>> No.1602800

>>1602768
>The building is beige, but the shadows make it shadow-color.

>> No.1602810

This is true... and it feels bad.

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>>1602800

YOU JUST DON'T GET IT

>> No.1602827

nobel prize has been pure bullshit for awhile

>> No.1602831

No regular /lit/ poster will ever do anything significant.

Yes, even you.

>> No.1602836

>>1602831
if school shootings count as "significant" i think you might find yourself forced to eat your words buster brown

>> No.1602869

Who would want a Pulitzer

They award those to Americans!

>> No.1602875

>>1602836
lol'd

>> No.1602964

>>1602772
i know this is a goof post but i almost want to cry imagining somebody who believes that his friends will think his writing hobby is cool

>> No.1602972
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>>1602831

>> No.1602991

>>1602831
Tao got a Stranger cover and SEVERAL Gawker posts

>> No.1602994

>>1602991

Tao was published before /lit/ existed.

>> No.1602999

>>1602827
Literature prize is perfectly fine and has introduced me to a few interesting writers I'd never heard of

>> No.1603008

>>1602999
you know you're responding to someone who is still working on the 10th grade english class canon but likes to parrot the criticism that the lit nobel represents pc gone mad and the tyranny of multiculturalism because it sounds right to him as a straight white american male

>> No.1603018

can't trust the literature prize ever since they robbed danilo kis of his.

>> No.1603019

>>1603008

>the lit nobel represents pc gone mad and the tyranny of multiculturalism

>implying this isn't self-evident

>implying this isn't the case without backing it up

>> No.1603023

Man the Oscars were so bad

I hope Anne Hathaway wins a Pulitzer before James Franco does

>> No.1603029

>>1603018
Are you saying they're the ones what killed him???? So he couldn't win?

>> No.1603033

of course they didn't kill him! but he still should have gotten the award even though he died.

>> No.1603037

>>1603019
Proof?

Fine.

Engdahl proclaimed Europe to be the literary center of the world, and the prize would reflect that.

His replacement, Englund, stated that the prize is Eurocentric.

God forbid you know anything about the prize itself, though. Go ahead and cast aspersions.