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You can have dinner with any three authors, living or dead. Who would you choose? What would you discuss?

>> No.8626589

Luther, Hitler, Céline.

Jews.

>> No.8626652

Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein

Silence

>> No.8626660

>>8626652
>autism
Ftfy

>> No.8626665

Syphilitic Nietzsche, Houellebecq, John Green.
We wouldn't really discuss anything, we'd just roast Green while watching Nietzsche freak the fuck out.

>> No.8626670

Joyce, Chaucer, Mishima.

Farts

>> No.8626679

>>8626660
Might as well sub Hegel for Kierkegaard for maximum autism levels.

>> No.8626716

>>8626552
Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy.

>> No.8626724

>>8626679
Or Kant
wew

>> No.8626727

>>8626652
Great choice bro. I'd probably swap out Maurice Merleau-Ponty or Alfred North Whitehead for Heidegger though. Dostoevsky or Kafka might be a good choice too.

>> No.8626733

>>8626552
id probably just pick one so that they cant just group together and ignore me.

>> No.8626742

>>8626552
hamsun, bob dylan and celine

>> No.8626767

Kesey, Ginsberg, Rimbaud. If poets don't count - Kesey, Will Burroughs, and Hunter S. Thompson.

Counterculture.

>> No.8626775

>>8626679
Imagine how butthurt Kierkegaard would be if he knew you had replaced him with Georg "Muh System" Hegel

>> No.8626790

>Dostoyevsky
>Tolstoy
>Flannery O'Connor
I would want Tolstoy and Dosto to meet. They loved each other's work very much and Tolstoy considered Dostoyevsky to be closest and dearest to his heart, even though they had never met. I'd like to see that.
Flan's just there because I'm tryina spit game at a qt

>> No.8626805

>Ayn Rand
>Nietzsche
>Kierkegaard
Greatness in men.

>> No.8626813

Kanye West, Jim Morrison and Ian Curtis.

>> No.8626928

>>8626790
Choices: 10/10
Reasoning: 10/10
well done sir

>> No.8626976

Marquis de Sade
Freud
Sappho

>> No.8627781

J.Caesar
Cicero
Cato the younger

Roman politics

>> No.8627814

Damn, didn't know so many people here were multilingual.

>> No.8627834

>>8626670
>not choosing Rabelais

>> No.8627837

H.P. Lovecraft
Karinthy Frigyes
Thomas Mann

The subject I have no Idea about.
I just want to meet authors

>> No.8627909

DFW
John Green
Cervantes

Just to show Cervantes how bad we're doing

>> No.8627913

>>8627837
H.P L would probably be shy, he was only comfortable with his friends. Get Robert E Howard to show up and it will be a party.

>> No.8627936

>>8626552
Betolt Brecht, Adam Smith, Confucius

Politics

>> No.8627938 [DELETED] 

>>8626552
Michel de Montaigne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Joyce.

>> No.8627954

>>8627909
underrated

>> No.8627964

Michel de Montaigne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Joyce.

I don't believe on limiting the conversation to particular topics, but I'd love to discuss poetry.

>> No.8627971

Moses
Paul
John of Patmos

Moses because I want to ask some NT-perspective questions
Paul because Arminians BTFO
John of Patmos because I don't understand a single word of Revelation

>> No.8627974

>>8627936
This is the weirdest combination of authors and fuck Bertolt Brecht

>> No.8627980

>>8627814
Lol just realised all 3 of my authors are from a time when English basically didn't exist

>> No.8627983

William Gaddis
Hunter S Thompson
Terance McKenna

best low key party ever until Gaddis and Thompson get whiskey wrecked and we're all arrested

>> No.8628026

>>8626552
No I can't you idiot.

>> No.8628050

Rowling, Martin, Green

>> No.8628073

>>8628050
This. For all that they might not be literary masters, they've made a lot of money between them.

I want to know the secret to their riches in spite of having only average work.

>> No.8628075

Dosto Gogol Tolstoy
I don't speak Russian so probably not very much

>> No.8628084

>>8628075
you could try to speak french

>> No.8628110

Joyce, Wilde, Deleuz
Language and its relation to art.

>> No.8628128
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8628128

Hegel, Žižek, Freud.

The first two will provide an atmosphere of coughing, sniffing, groaning and verbiage. This level of noise would allow me to have a private conversation with Freud about my scat fetish.

>> No.8628172

>>8626733
This.

>> No.8628183

>>8628128

I like the way you think.

>> No.8628187

Ernst Junger, and Erich Marie Remarque so I could watch them argue
Bring along Kipling to chat about his works

>> No.8628188

Aquinas, Nietzsche, Zoroaster
i wanna see how they interact also to get redpilled

>> No.8628196

Rather not be having me tea with a corpse, you know?

>> No.8628268

>>8626552
>Machiavelli

>Stirner

>Sun Tzu

The same thing we do every day. How to take over the world.

>> No.8628269

>>8628073
>in spite
because

>> No.8628330

Ayn Rand
Virginia Woolf
Emily Dickenson

Snu Snu

>> No.8628363

>Ezra Pound
>Nabakov
>Whitman

Discuss arrogance

>> No.8628401

I'm surprised that nobody so far has suggested eating one of the guests.

>> No.8628556

For serious discussion:

Borges
Rumi
Yeats

For a wild party:

Shakespeare
Cervantes
Coleridge

>> No.8628589

>>8626552

Hegel, John Green and de Sade.

I roofie Hegel and John Green, and we take turns sodomizing them for weeks on end.

>> No.8628596

Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, and (now that it's finally happened) Thomas Pynchon

>> No.8628822

Hume, Hemingway, Hilda Hilst.

Now that's a fucking party

>> No.8628828

>>8628822
such alliterate party

>> No.8628830

Dante
Shakespeare
Camões

I can't understand Dante very well, so I'd use Camões as translator, and would act as translator between Shakespeare and the other too, since they didn't know English.

Acting as a translator between them is really the only way why by which I would ever be able to get their attention, so this seems to me to be the smartest option

>> No.8628843

-J.G. Ballard
-Dr. Seuss
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

>> No.8628847

>>8628828
We wouldn't talk about literature, dumbass. We would take turns fucking Hilda

>> No.8628849

>>8628330
Fuck, marry, kill for this group?

I say fuck Emily Dickinson, kill Ayn Rand, wife Virginia Woolf post haste. She's a goddamn dime and /lit/ as fuck.
Thoughts?

>> No.8628872

>>8628828
>>8628847
oh sorry I've read illiterate. Time to take a nap

>> No.8628875

Dostoevsky
Nabokov
Gogol
it's a triangle system between them

>> No.8628877

>>8628849

>not marrying Ayn Rand

She has literal rape fantasies in her books and openly said that women were inferior to men.
She's probably submissive and will do anything for you, both in bed and in general.

>> No.8628890

>>8628877
>Into submissive women
She needs to fight, faggot.

>> No.8628896

>>8628847
I never thought much of Hilda's writings, but she'd make a hell of a sex partiner when she was young. You can tell she loved giving head.

Are you BR?

>> No.8628898

>>8628896
yap

>> No.8628908

>>8628898
same

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8628934

>Conrad
>Achebe
>Bill O'Reilly

>> No.8629753

>>8628875
who beats who?

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8630372

I really love space sci-fi like I, Robot and Space diaries, a third author?
>Stanislaw Lem
>Asimov

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8630413

>Sappho
>Catullus
>Shakespeare
Guess.

>> No.8630453

>>8628934
Quality, very quality
>>8628875
Reminder for those out of the loop:
"Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously. The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose." "
"Gogol, Nikolai. Nobody takes his mystical didacticism seriously. At his worst, as in his Ukrainian stuff, he is a worthless writer; at his best, he is incomparable and inimitable. Loathe his moralistic slant, am depressed and puzzled by his inability to describe young women, deplore his obsession with religion."

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>>8630413
sounds like you'd be discussing pic related

>> No.8630466

>>8626552

Sterne, Gellius, Catullus

>> No.8630469

>>8630463
I don't think so.
If I wanted to do that Æschylus and Dante would be there.

>> No.8630475

Herberto Helder
Borges
Colin Quinn (he wrote a book)

crack jokes on the fact that life is meaningless

also I wouldn't invite Cioran because he's probably an insufferable cunt who no one likes irl

>> No.8630639

Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan

>> No.8630657

Bataille, Klossowski, and Louys.

The topic being Kevin Smith films.

>> No.8630840

>>8630639
And what would the group discuss?

>> No.8630844

>>8626552

John Green, J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams.

>> No.8630851

Why would I want to dine with corpses?

>> No.8630857

>>8630840
>the cosmos

>> No.8630860

Hitler, Anne Frank, Hemingway

The gas bill

>> No.8630864

>>8630860
Not Hemingway, elie Wiesel

>> No.8630889

Potok, Carl Sagan, Paul (Bible)

Assuming they could understand each other, I would test Sagan's patience on two heavy believers of God, a concept Sagan is more leaning against.

>inb4 agnostic not athiest

>> No.8630938

Pynchon
Joyce
DFW

The trio united at last. I fell like they would end up bullying Wallace though.

>> No.8631005

>>8630938
Joyce and Pynchon would talk amongst themselves, eventually excusing themselves, leaving you and DFW alone to make petty talk

>> No.8631039

>>8630938
>the limit of memes

>> No.8631150

D. H. Lawrence
Robertson Davies
David Eggers


Graham Green
Robert Kroetch
Evelyn Waugh

Are coming next week.

>> No.8631158

>>8626552

Schopenhauer
Bulgakov
Orwell

>> No.8631164

>>8631158

As to what I'd discuss. Politics, suffering and medicine

>> No.8631208

>>8626665
>Syphilitic Nietzsche
thats a meme, he just took the final red pill and couldnt handle it

>> No.8631218

God
Nietszche
Ayn Rand (or any other athiest)

I wanna see Nietszche kill god while Rand freaks out

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>>8631218
Actually, replace Rand with Freud

I want to hear him psycho-analyze the situation

>tfw Nietszche only murders God to prevent castration anxiety

>> No.8631234

>>8631223

>I want to hear him psycho analyze the situation

Why? His theories are obsolete and have no clinical basis. I mean do you want that just for the hell of it? This board seems to have a massive hard on for Freud. I mean sure maybe his writing is good in the literary sense but he is irrelevant in the modern day psychological world.

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>>8631234
>massive hard on for Freud
Interesting choice of language, Anon.

Please... sit down.

Tell me... why do I intimidate you so much and why do you phrase people's admiration of my work in a sexual manner?

...Do i remind you of your father?

Sometimes a shitpost is just a shitpost, but I suspect what we have here is a desperate unconscious longing for the hard fucking your father never gave you but which you thought you were owed. Come here now Anon, I will solve your complex.

>> No.8631293

>>8631285

This was not even remotely entertaining in any way.

>> No.8631301

>>8631234

He did create a basis for current psychology in some ways though. I'm going to sit here and pretend he founded the science or anything, but its one of those cases where without his theories we never would have learned what we learned. Like Newton, whose theories break down at the quantum level but without whom we would have no basis for understanding quantum physics.

I would like to note that Freud isn't comparable to Freud though, Newton was much more crucial and intelligent and also, I don't respect psychology very much as a science in the first place.

>> No.8631305

>>8631293
butthurt

>> No.8631306

>>8631301

*I'm not going to sit here
*Freud isn't comparable to Newton

one of those days

>> No.8631307

Quine, Lewis, Carnap

metaphysics

>> No.8631313

Nietzsche
Shakespeare
Borges

The best part of dinner with Nietzsche it's watching him eat all that fruit then vomit.

The rest would just be about watching Borges simultaneously fanboy out over Shakespeare and call me a pleb for picking Nietzsche over Schopenhauer.

>> No.8631314

>>8631305

Nope not even

>>8631301

Yeah as someone who studies psychology I have to say I hate it and I don't even know why I am majoring in it. Probably going to switch to lit t b h

>> No.8631499

>>8628084
>>8628075

This is what I would do, as a frog. But actually only Dosto and Tolstoy, because I'd like to see them interact. Though I like Gogol, I'd want Rimbaud so I could smash that boipussy later in the evening.

>> No.8631626

>>8626813
/mu/ pls leave

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>>8628128

Underrated.

>> No.8631644

>>8626552
Hitchens, Wodehouse, Wilde

I don't care, I want to have a nice dinner where I get drunk and laugh all the time, hate me faggots.

>> No.8631654

>>8631644

>4 pseuds together at a table

Yep, it works out.

>> No.8631796

>>8626552
Steven King, J.K Rowling, E.L James

Marketing

>> No.8632542

>>8631796
this

>> No.8632549

Barbara Guest, Rosemarie Waldrop, & Mei-mei Burssenburgge

I would dine on their assholes, & discuss their talents.

>> No.8632554

>>8628849
virginia woolf was a dyke and cheated on her husband with some poet chick

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>>8630372