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so is it tay-oh leen or tay-oh linn?

>> No.3179212

Neither. It's more like towelin'.

>> No.3179233

It's Tao Lin

>> No.3179235

>>3179212
>tay-oh towlin'
>implying

>> No.3179240

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw

>> No.3179255

isn't it "dao" lin technically?

>> No.3179256

>>3179240
Is he deliberately maintaining an image of awkwardness?

>> No.3179264

>>3179256

yes

>> No.3179270

dow linn

>> No.3179276

>>3179240

haha funniest cunt

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>>3179208
>"image.jpg"
>not "Tao-Lin Gloryhole.jpg"

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>>3179256
It's complex. It's part constructed but it isn't artificial. As a /lit/izen once said, being ironic is the only way he can be sincere. Tao Lin is the tragic hero and spokesman of our generation.

>> No.3179289

>>3179240
haha he is pretty funny. also talking heads are cool

>> No.3179292

>>3179240

Holy shit. I hate Emily Gould more than Tao Lin.

>> No.3179293

>>3179278
boring plain prose in stories about boring people

>> No.3179295

I want to thank /lit/ for talking so much shit about Tao Lin that I wanted to read him. I'm on my third book now and greatly enjoying myself.

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>>3179293

>> No.3179304

>>3179292

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-avakrRUaU

>> No.3179305

>>3179278

sup tao

>> No.3179333 [DELETED] 

That video is so awkward.

>> No.3179350

>>3179208
ta-owl Lin

>> No.3179354

>>3179278
>Tao Lin
That's a funny way of saying Noah Cicero, the true spokesman of our generation.

>> No.3179356

>>3179295
As long as you don't read Richard Yates or his poetry you're golden.

>> No.3179361

>>3179354
Which works do you recommend and do you have any to share perhaps?

>> No.3179362

It's not taow (one syllable) lyn?

>> No.3179364

We don't actually say his name at all.

>> No.3179366

>>3179278
But people don't want to hear about our generation, have you seen that movie... Midnight in Paris? Yeah that's it, it's by Woody Allen it's about the Golden Age fallacy, it's when people always see the past as better than the present. Pretty good movie, anyway people often think that of our times and don't want to hear about our days they want the good old days.

>> No.3179369

>>3179356
I liked Richard Yates, although I liked Shoplifting more. Currently reading Eeeee Eee Eeee and moving on to Bed after that. I want to read everything he published as long as I don't have to pay for it.

>> No.3179381

>>3179366
That's why I like reading him, because I like to be confronted with that bleakness. Reading Tao Lin is like staring out the window on a colourless afternoon in early winter in the morning without knowing what to do with yourself.

>> No.3179384

>>3179356
>As long as you don't read Richard Yates
But that's his best one

>> No.3179399

GO TO BED TOWEL

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>>3179240
>"Does the garlic go in the dressing or.."
>"I just put it on top. I just take one and bite little pieces and put it on top"

>> No.3179420

D+ow L+in

>> No.3179438

>>3179361
Insurgents and The Human War
Then read Best Behaviour.

Also,
http://www.bearparade.com/nosferatu/

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>>3179384
Wrong.

>> No.3179466

>>3179458
>tfw you can't post a pic of paper Richard Yates because bookdepository and amazon were sold out when you went looking

>> No.3179476

>tao lin is supposed to be an annoying faggot
>go to his twitter
>he painstakingly selects and shares beautiful quotes of Ryōkan, Pessoa, Schopenhauer and the like with us

Tao is a good man.

>> No.3179487

>>3179476
You didn't see it when BEE made the drug addled American Psycho 2 tweet.

>> No.3179493

>tao will never do an AMA on /lit/

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>>3179493
>even if he did no one would believe it was him

>> No.3179498

>>3179493
>AMA
You can ask him about the American Medical Association next time he posts here, but I think Cognitive Behavioural Therapy might be a different kind of book to what you think it is.

>> No.3179500

>>3179497
>even if he did no one would believe it was him
*even if he did no one would care.

>> No.3179511

>>3179500
>stop liking what I don't like
Go post a mfw story about how you were reading ASOIAF on the train and there were plebs reading 50 Shades near you.

>> No.3179580

>>3179500
>mummy please lift me up I can't reach the high culture

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3179592

>tay-oh leen
Didn't Dolly Party right a song about him?

>> No.3179601

>>3179255
It should be. Like Taoism.

>> No.3179614

>>3179601
>I know better than his parents how he should be named

You're one of those fuckers that doesn't even celebrate the unique creativity of Afro-American names either, aren't you?

>> No.3179650

>>3179614
>Eddie Murphy

>> No.3179650,1 [INTERNAL] 

his name is technically TAO RIN,,,,, get it?

hahahaha

btw he started this thread himself....
he feels he is getting smaller
like a snail starving to death because it doesnt want to come out of its dumb shell that it created its self

>> No.3179650,2 [INTERNAL] 

>>3179650,1

if he suddenly published a 900 page high fantasy epic it would be the most exciting thing to happen in 21st century books

>> No.3179650,3 [INTERNAL] 

fuck

>> No.3179650,4 [INTERNAL] 

classic thread