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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:58:51 No.7290593 View Reply Report Delete

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Name an author who could out drink Hemingway.
(you can't)

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:59:40 No.7290595 Report Delete

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Nigga luk lyk Neal DeGrasse Tyson tbh

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:01:54 No.7290604 Report Delete

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>>7290595

Marlon Brando as the Godfather wearing a really thin poorly made mask of Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:26:05 No.7290676 Report Delete

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i read a profile of Hemingway written in the new yorker i think and it is obvious to tell the man had a sad drinking problem back in the day by today's standards.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:27:48 No.7290683 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Faulkner, all day every day.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:27:54 No.7290684 Report Delete

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Malcolm Lowry could compete

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:28:44 No.7290689 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Dashiell Hammett.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:33:43 No.7290708 Report Delete

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>>7290684
>>7290593
This. Hemingway would die before he caught up to Lowry.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:36:26 No.7290719 Report Delete

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gee, that was hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11YjgY-BPaY

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:37:18 No.7290722 Report Delete

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Dylan Thomas

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:37:56 No.7290726 Report Delete

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>>7290708

Yeah, Lowry drank like 5 litres of Alcohol a day

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:45:21 No.7290758 Report Delete

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>>7290722
Them 18 whiskeys

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:12:04 No.7290874 Report Delete

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>>7290758
I don't get why people are impressed with that. It's pretty standard fare for a drunk.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:48:35 No.7291034 Report Delete

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i drink maybe 400ml/day.
I have no idea how these guys go harder. maybe it isn't as potent to them?
It is borderline selfabuse to me already with how much pain/dizziness/hangover it causes

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:50:14 No.7291046 Report Delete

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>>7291034
oh to add i prob could have read a couple hundred more books at nights if i wasn't too drunk to read 300 evenings a year.

but i get the feeling these guys are so genius level they don't even need to read to be great at it

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:02:09 No.7291078 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Guy Debord.

He claimed he was continuously drunk for months. May explain why he was such a commie.

To give an example, Debord wrote off his own consumption of alcohol, just for the day of 9 may 1962:

>3 litres of wine
>2 litres of beer
>1/2 litre of other alcohols

(See p. 597 of his works edited by Quarto/Gallimard.)

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:05:21 No.7291092 Report Delete

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>>7291078
Guy Debord wrote about his own drunkenness in these terms:

>AFTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES that I have just recalled, it is no doubt the quickly acquired habit of drinking that has marked my entire life. Wines, spirits and beers: the moments when some of them became essential and the moments when they returned have traced out the main course and meanders of days, weeks and years. Two or three other passions, which I will talk about, have almost continually taken up a lot of space in this life. But drinking has been the most constant and the most present. Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. I can count myself among those of whom Baltasar Gracián, thinking about an elite distinguishable only among the Germans — but here very unfair, to the detriment of the French, as I think I have shown — could say: “There are those who have got drunk only once, but it has lasted them a lifetime.” (...)

>First, like everyone, I appreciated the effect of slight drunkenness; then very soon I grew to like what lies beyond violent drunkenness, when one has passed that stage: a magnificent and terrible peace, the true taste of the passage of time. Although in the first decades I may have allowed only slight indications to appear once or twice a week, it is a fact that I have been continuously drunk for periods of several months; and the rest of the time, I still drank a lot.

Check "Panegyric" (1989), easy to find in translation for free.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:07:33 No.7291104 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Hunter S. Thompson.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:08:51 No.7291107 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Charles Bukowski

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:13:38 No.7291130 Report Delete

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David Foster Wallace

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:20:33 No.7291156 Report Delete

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>>7290593
me

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:21:15 No.7291159 Report Delete

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>>7291078

That's what Hemingway consumes before breakfast in The Sun Also Rises.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:25:30 No.7291181 Report Delete

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so far most of the ppl listed also committed suicide tho

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:25:53 No.7291186 Report Delete

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>>7291159
There is also 15 or 20 other cocktails or liquors on Debord's list for this day, but I can't quantify how much alcohol they weigh.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 21:45:10 No.7292265 Report Delete

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Obviously me

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 21:49:29 No.7292285 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Socrates

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 21:50:25 No.7292290 Report Delete

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Raymond Chandler

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:38:06 No.7292702 Report Delete

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Bukowski?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:39:11 No.7292703 Report Delete

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Hemingway was tall and heavy, it's not fair tbh
Still I think shakespeare could compete

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:01:36 No.7292795 Report Delete

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Capote

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:12:36 No.7292839 Report Delete

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Bukowski Bitches and Hunter S. Thompson

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:13:10 No.7292841 Report Delete

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Your ugly fucking cunt of a mother you stupid cunt

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:13:13 No.7292843 Report Delete

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Jack Kerouac.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 05:44:37 No.7293629 Report Delete

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Krúdy

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 05:58:33 No.7293644 Report Delete

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>>7290593
:^)

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:05:51 No.7293653 Report Delete

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>>7293644
I don't want to ruin the it by asking for an explanation, but is this a river death joke?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:11:45 No.7293657 Report Delete

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>>7290726
5 liters of what? if beer, then im even above his ass and i only start drinking at 5.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:13:12 No.7293659 Report Delete

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>>7290593
im going for bukowski.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:13:47 No.7293660 Report Delete

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>>7293644
tbh, she has that drinking bitch look which alcohol abusing women tend to have

like my ex

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:22:57 No.7293670 Report Delete

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>>7292841
you motherfucker ill fucking kill you you fuck

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:24:00 No.7293671 Report Delete

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>>7293653
What, were you it to be something classy instead?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:31:16 No.7293686 Report Delete

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>>7293671
No, I just wanted to know if that's what you were going for.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:42:58 No.7293696 Report Delete

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>>7290593
>ctrl+f melville
>0 results

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:45:42 No.7293700 Report Delete

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>>7293657
Lowry was likely a liquor and wine man.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:54:04 No.7293712 Report Delete

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>Hemingway goes to war in Spain
It was so sad, I banged local girls, hid out in the woods, and came back with a qt wife. isn't my life sad, isn't war sad.

>Orwell goes to war in Spain
I had to teach a bunch of 15 year olds how to shoot, led a militia, had to endure trench warfare before getting a sniper bullet through the neck, saw my friends die, and had to flee for my life. 10/10, would go back.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:13:25 No.7293846 Report Delete

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Brendan Behan

But he had pretty much lost his talent by the end.

Sean O'Riada, while not a writer died in his prime after a promising short career

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:25:14 No.7293870 Report Delete

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>>7293712
Hemmmingway is a MAN'S MAN

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:26:02 No.7293874 Report Delete

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Probably Dylan Thomas or Kerouac?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:28:17 No.7293879 Report Delete

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>>7291092
If he didn't drink so much he could have produced so much more

fuck

I can't even judge him, I'd stay drunk for months on time if I could

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:14:51 No.7293960 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Why do people think this is an achievement?

All it proves is that this faggot had no self control, and was too weak to face life as it is. Ironic, considering all his faux masculinity garbage.

Yes I'm aware he could probably beat me up, but I'd still be right.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:31:04 No.7294014 Report Delete

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>>7290595
>>7290604
I was thinking more along the lines of a chubby Walt Disney

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:32:12 No.7294019 Report Delete

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Why has nobody said Joyce?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:34:17 No.7294023 Report Delete

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>Hunter hit his stride early. At his first meeting with his New York publishers, they watched in amazement as young Hunter poured down 20 double Wild Turkeys in three hours (on their tab, of course), then walk out as if he’d been sipping tea.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:47:09 No.7294063 Report Delete

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>talking about consuming alcohol as some epitome of manliness and strength

Wow, /lit/. Wow.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:54:31 No.7294079 Report Delete

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>>7294063
Fucking right, its the current year after all.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 11:29:14 No.7294306 Report Delete

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>>7293712
The miserable nature of Homage to Catalonia is described so goddamn vividly it evokes a bittersweet nostalgia for something I can't possibly relate to. Really Orwell's best work.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 13:28:35 No.7294604 Report Delete

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>>7293712
That's the difference between an American man and an Englishman in a nutshell.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:52:56 No.7295057 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Me.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:58:14 No.7295081 Report Delete

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>>7294063

>tfw you realize that no where in this thread has the drinking been construed as manly or strong, and that you are merely projecting your own ridiculous preconceptions onto everything

Wew lad.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:59:34 No.7295087 Report Delete

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Myself, an Australian alcoholic. Basically just an Australian.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:00:03 No.7295089 Report Delete

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>>7294023

I have a feeling that the reason Hunter gives off the impression of being able to drink so much is that the fact that he always looks and sounds pissed anyway.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:00:30 No.7295093 Report Delete

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>>7291104
This is the official right answer. Nobody can beat pic related.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:02:09 No.7295101 Report Delete

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>>7295089
I'm pretty sure it's all the cocaine,

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:04:43 No.7295111 Report Delete

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>>7293960

>All it proves is that this faggot had no self control, and was too weak to face life as it is. Ironic, considering all his faux masculinity garbage.

Really, the ironic thing is that a millennial is judging a decorated three-time war veteran who was gravely wounded several times and suffered severe personal tragedy the magnitude of which few men can even imagine as "too weak to face life" on an internet imageboard.

You massive fucboi.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 03:58:02 No.7297359 Report Delete

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>>7294306
finally someone who agrees

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 04:02:03 No.7297368 Report Delete

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>>7295111

Woah woah not the guy youre responding to but if i'm not mistaken ernest never even saw active combat, lmao man. fuck you.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 04:04:45 No.7297374 Report Delete

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>>7295111
whoof

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 04:37:14 No.7297415 Report Delete

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>>7295111

I agree with the sentiment, but there is something you should know.

>he never served in any military of any country except for a bullshit "commission" from the Cuban government to "hunt submarines" (drinking and tuna fishing)

He did drive ambulances in the Italian campaign of WW1. That was probably rough. Can't take that away from him.

Most of his image was complete bullshit that he sought to maintain.

That being said, I agree with you that this board is full of European pussies who pretend to have experienced enough hardship to write about the human experience.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 04:44:54 No.7297429 Report Delete

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>>7297368
he got his leg fucked up by a mortar at the italian front, fuck off with this active combat bullshit

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 05:05:11 No.7297453 Report Delete

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>>7294063
It's 2015

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 13:13:02 No.7298474 Report Delete

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>>7293846
Don't forget Flann O'Brien

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 13:31:03 No.7298506 Report Delete

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>>7295087
Any writer from this glorious nation tbh

Patrick White probs could
Henry Lawson defs could
Xavier Herbert defs could
Helen Garner probs can
Les Murray defs can
David Malouf's a leb cunt
Peter Carey maybe can
Actually Peter Singer probs can't
Richard Flanagan probs can
Gerald Murnane defs can
Miles Franklin defs could

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:11:59 No.7298854 Report Delete

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

But honestly, Hemingway was an insecure little bitch. Most of his /lit/ peers could out drink him

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:13:58 No.7298862 Report Delete

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>>7293712

Excellent post.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:26:08 No.7298896 Report Delete

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>>7290593
Bukowski, Fitzgerald, and maybe HST.

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Anonymouse Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:08:48 No.7299995 Report Delete

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Jack Kerouac drank so much that he drank himself to death, so there's that

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:14:06 No.7300008 Report Delete

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Frederick Exley
Richard Yates
Raymond Carver
John Cheever

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:23:19 No.7300027 Report Delete

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>>7293657
Lowry was literally a rubbing alcohol and hairspray drinking man, dude did not want to be seeing life sober

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:27:23 No.7300040 Report Delete

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I've never met a fellow really heavy drinker.
what's it like?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:06:50 No.7300162 Report Delete

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>>7290593

I can't name an author that could out drink Hemingway but I could name a lot of authors that could out-"not-shoot-yourself-in-the-head-with-a-shotgun" Hemingway lmfao.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:10:24 No.7300181 Report Delete

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Are. There any authors who were notorious for writing whilst drunk?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:16:39 No.7300204 Report Delete

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Dan Harmon

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:19:22 No.7300216 Report Delete

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>>7290593
>Name an author who could out drink Hemingway.
Me.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:31:43 No.7300253 Report Delete

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>>7300216
>anyone on /lit/
>author

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:32:07 No.7300255 Report Delete

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>>7299995
He probably drank himself into a sugar coma with al the port he put away.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:35:49 No.7300272 Report Delete

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>>7294604
english people are known to be soft as fuck tbh
hemingway took a bullet, while orwell was bitching about having to shoot a poor little elephant :(

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:37:08 No.7300274 Report Delete

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>>7298506
>Any writer from this glorious nation tbh
>australian
>writer
pick one lad

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:44:04 No.7300291 Report Delete

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"Write drunk. Edit Sober"

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:44:37 No.7300297 Report Delete

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>>7300253
I'm published, nigger, fight me.
It may not be in physical print, but it still counts, r-right?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:45:13 No.7300299 Report Delete

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>>7300291
bad meme

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:45:33 No.7300301 Report Delete

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'Write drunk, edit sober"

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:48:09 No.7300313 Report Delete

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>>7295081
I'm glad someone recognized that. Jesus what retarded response to the thread.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:33:17 No.7300467 Report Delete

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>>7300301
fucking retard

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