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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:02:14 No.7281006 View Reply Report Delete

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Can engineers be great writers?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:03:16 No.7281008 Report Delete

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>>7281006
only in that their writing can serve as an excellent exposition of their autism

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:06:12 No.7281014 Report Delete

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>>7281006
Define "great".

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:15:20 No.7281050 Report Delete

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>implying that all engineers share the same talents/character traits
>implying that there is a generalizable answer to this question

We require more information OP

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:20:00 No.7281066 Report Delete

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no. they tend to be autists who shitpost e.g. >>7281006

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:24:17 No.7281080 Report Delete

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Pynchon

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:27:11 No.7281090 Report Delete

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>>7281080
He wasn't an engineer. He majored in english.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:30:43 No.7281100 Report Delete

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>>7281006
They tend not to have time or inclination to it, but it's not categorically impossible.

>>7281090
Two years of engineering physics at Cornell followed by technical writing for Boeing takes some inclination for engineering.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:41:18 No.7281128 Report Delete

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Dostoevsky was an engineer but he wasn't very good at it

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:46:32 No.7281145 Report Delete

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>>7281128
Anyone else?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:56:07 No.7281178 Report Delete

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>Pynchon
The OP asked for great writers

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:57:36 No.7281184 Report Delete

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>>7281006
dostoevsky, zamyatin

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 14:17:06 No.7281271 Report Delete

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Coetzee.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 17:26:31 No.7281981 Report Delete

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Meme Wolfe

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/Thread

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:44:36 No.7282540 Report Delete

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The Martian

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:45:42 No.7282554 Report Delete

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>>7281006
Conn a ship, chef a burrito, spackle a roof, change a diaper, speedrun Quake 2, write a sonnet etc etc

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:55:18 No.7282609 Report Delete

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it's a screenplay but Shane Carruth, a mathematics major and professional engineer, wrote the amazingly written Primer. he also directed, starred in, and scored it on a 7000 dollar budget but that's beside the point

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:58:35 No.7282621 Report Delete

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>ywn Shane

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:01:38 No.7282630 Report Delete

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underyayed post

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:10:29 No.7282666 Report Delete

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I'm an engineer and I'm a better writer most of you according to critique threads.

I'm also firmly against all forms of empiricism, so I'm an outlier.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:11:19 No.7282669 Report Delete

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Ernesto Sabato

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