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most intellectual writers
I hate to respond to every "Who is the most _ writer" topic with the same people, but I guess that's just the way it goes... Thomas Pynchon, DF Wallace, Shakespeare, Nabokov, and JJ.
Milton
Dante
Petrarch
Borges
Like the above, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov... and I would add JL Borges, Georges Perec, John Barth, William Gass, TS Eliot, Joseph Mcelroy, Rikki Ducornet, Peter Esterhazy, Lyudmila Ulitskaya.
I third Borges. His literary intellect leaves me in awe at times.
I'll add Thomas Mann, John Stuart Mill, and my wild card, Tennyson.
Bunch of pansies,
“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the ******* of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.”
“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. ”
You all think you're so original and unique but you fall over each other like stark mad Black Friday shoppers to mention the same 3 or 5 dead men.
“The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.”
And it seems to me that you shamelessly put your own utter irrelevance on parade by quoting Henry Miller in a conversation on intellectual writers. Bravo.
As a side note, it appears almost everyone listed different authors, including several living ones. Yet for some reason I doubt you have read the majority of the names listed above.
Quite true, very few writers speak truly to life and of ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by islandclimber
How do you mean by 'intellectual'? It is a vast word.
Who are you calling a pansy? Ducky. If I were a mod you would get a slap on the wrist.Quote:
Originally Posted by E.A Rumfield
LOL I had roast duck for dinner last night. It was not bad at all :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
With only 12 letters I wouldn't say that intellectual is a vast word but in German it's a different story:Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhaupt-betriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
:eek2:You cannot be serious LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
According to his former tutor, David Foster Wallace could have made it as a professional philosopher. I've seen one of his papers and it looked extremely technical. He also wrote a book on infinity which looks similarly impenetrable. As for his fiction and essays, while I'm not a big fan of his style, he was certainly a talented and insightful writer. All in all he seems to have had an extraordinary mind.