Is literary forgery a thing, like how art forgery is? Are there people who can replicate writing styles convincingly enough to claim they found a collection of unpublished works by a famous author? Because that’s my dream grift. Catcher in the Rye 2: Still Catchin’ by Patsy Ann Vargas totally the real J.D. Salinger for real, honest.
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I dream so much and I live so little, that sometimes I am only three years old. But, the next day I am three hundred, if the dream has been sombre. Isn’t it the same with you? Doesn’t it seem at moments, that you are beginning life without even knowing what it is, and at other times don’t you feel over you the weight of several thousands centuries, of which you have a vague remembrance and a sorrowful impression?
George Sand, in a letter to Gustave Flaubert, 28 September 1866
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You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (via bookshavepores)
Who’s going to tell them about Marlowe and Shakespeare?
Don’t come into my house and act like I don’t know about Marlowe and Shakespeare. I don’t care what dusty old dudes have to say about similarities between other dusty old dudes. I want to write a bunch of fake Robert Frost poems about jacking off. Birches 2: This Time The Dick Stuff is Super Obvious, Like, Just Wicked Undeniably About Peen, Y'Know?
hi i’m ernst hemingsway and here’s my new book Angry Guy But This Time He’s On a Train. fuck off
I’ve Actually Never Seen a Boob in Real Life and All of This Has Been a Heavy-Handed Attempt at Hiding It: The Lost Collaboration Between Bukowski and Brautigan.
bring back max stirner and karl marx and make them fight to the (re)death to settle this discourse once and for all
you FOOL. if we bring them back to life, it should be to have them fuck.
hi, do you take constructive criticism of your reblogs?
- kirk: there’s only one thing worse than death
- kirk: *rips off card so it says “spock’s death”* boom
- bones: *gasps* SPOCK
- kirk: no
you expect someone with the name “death the kid” to be super edgy but he owns a skateboard with his dads face on it
to be fair how do you be edgy when death is your dad? if you try to wera something edgy you just look like you love your dad
thats because he does
Fuckening