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>Favourite novel and novelist.
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
>Favourite play and playwright.
>Favourite philosopher.

>Favourite classical piece.
>Favourite popular music album.

>Favourite film.
>Favourite director.

>Favourite painter.
>Favourite painting.
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>>24702884
Add favourite body part
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>>24702884
Have this instead
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>Favourite novel and novelist.
novel: The Voyeur - Alain Robbe-Grillet
novelist: Gordon Lish
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Monolithos - Jack Gilbert
>Favourite play and playwright.
none
>Favourite philosopher.
Schopenhauer

>Favourite classical piece.
none
>Favourite popular music album.
Lonesome Crowded West

>Favourite film.
Gummo
>Favourite director.
John Cassavetes

>Favourite painter.
none
>Favourite painting.
none
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>>24702884
>homer
>du fu
>shakespeare, julius caesar
>laozi
>schubert ave maria
>from a basement on the hill
>late spring
>ozu
>same as OP
>picrel
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>>24702884
>nabokov, pale fire
>the major works, gerard manley hopkins
>the book of mormon, charlie kaufman
>hume or al-ghazali

>daphnis et chloe (lever du jour) or waltz of the flowers
>brazil or paperhouse
>coen brothers

>john martin
>the temple of death

>>24703059
>gordon lish
do you want to be friends :3 and since you like gummo did you call the number he gave out on white plains to talk about it with him? also i was going to read the voyeur next week

>>24702943
>you were never really here
can i ask why you liked it?
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>Favourite novel and novelist.
Idk, Tolkein probably
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
The Anathemata by David Jones
>Favourite play and playwright.
404
>Favourite philosopher.
Kierkegaard maybe
>Favourite classical piece.
Bach's Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor
>Favourite popular music album.
Power Corruption and Lies by New Order if you mean Pop, if you mean "pleb" music in general then probably World Eater by Bolt Thrower
>Favourite film.
Stalker
>Favourite director.
Tarkovsky
>Favourite painter.
Tie between Thomas Cole and Salvadore Dali
>Favourite painting.
Cole's course of empire series
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>>24702884
>>Favourite novel and novelist.
Anna Karenina and Tolstoy. (I think Resurrection is very underrated, by the way)
>>Favourite poetry book and poet.
I'm not sure about 'poetry book' but my favourite poets are Tennyson and Wordsworth.
>>Favourite play and playwright.
I know we're trying to show our individuality here but it would be a lie if I didn't say Shakespeare. I think I like the Henriad best, I treat it as a unified work.
>>Favourite philosopher.
The medieval ones who combine philosophy with theology, so let's say Thomas Aquinas or Robert Grosseteste.
>>Favourite classical piece.
Brahms's second piano concerto.
>>Favourite popular music album.
Probably Yes's Close to the Edge.
>>Favourite film.
All the Mornings of the World
>>Favourite director.
Stanley Kubrick, and I don't care how basic that sounds. The man was a genius, and he didn't lose his touch right up until death.
>>Favourite painter.
Probably Canaletto, or perhaps Velasquez.
>>Favourite painting.
You posted it, that's why I came into the thread. I use The Snowstorm as my desktop background on all my devices.
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>>24705081
How did you feel about Tarkovsky's adaptation of Solaris? I loved it but I feel he missed something from the essence of the book, which I didn't feel with Stalker.
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>>24705071
>Favourite popular music album.
Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
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>>24705217
>You posted it
Why do you guys like it so much? I can't even tell what's going on in it
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>>24702884
I've spent a weird amount of time with: Wharton's The Custom Of The Country and Mann's The Magic Mountain, Stevens and Bishop, Measure For Measure and the Scottish play, Seneca, Haydn 88 & 97, Orblivion, Barry Lyndon, and anything by Monet where he evidently wasn't thinking all that hard about why to do it at all.
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>>24705220
I haven't seen it or read the book, although both are on my todo list. I watch very few movies (and like even less) so I only found Tarkovsky recently.

Before that I probably would have said Aliens or some obscure Chechen Wad documentary that I watched as a teenager was my favorite movie lol.
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>>24702884
These are my favorites right now but not necessarily what I'd consider the best.

Novelist: Jane Austen
Novel: The Tale of Genji
Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poetry Book: The Faerie Queene
Playwright: Edward Albee
Play: The Bacchae
Philosopher: William James
Classical Piece: Arnold Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht
Pop Album: Prince - Sign "O" the Times
Film: My Dinner with Andre
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Painter: Gustav Klimt
Painting: Pic Rel
>>24702890
Tits
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>>24702884
FAVOURITE

>Novel
Frankenstein
>Novelist
Jane Austen
>Poetry book
Paradise Lost
>Poet
Byron
>Play
Doctor Faustus
>Playwright
Marlowe
>Philosopher
Boethius (so-called 'philosophy' from after the Early Middle Ages is a meme)
>Classical piece
Miserere, but I prefer mediaeval carols/chants to what most people think of as 'classical' so also Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
>Popular music album
Definitely Maybe
>Film
Jurassic Park
>Director
Kubrick
>Painter
Any of the portrait miniaturists, like Hilliard or Oliver
>Painting
'Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion' by John Martin
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>>24702884
>Favourite novel and novelist
Augustus and John Williams
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Milton’s collected works and Milton
>Favourite play and playwright.
Julius Caesar and Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Jesus
>Favourite classical piece.
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque prelude. Moderato. Played by Walter Gieseking.
>Favourite popular music album.
Moanin the blues by Hank Williams
>Favourite film
I’ve only watched one in the last 5 years and it was Harakiri, I liked it
>Favourite director.
Kurosawa seems cool
>Favourite painter.
JMW Turner
>Favourite painting
Young Girl Facing Forward (Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, 1899)
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>Moby-Dick is my favorite novel but my favorite novelist is Cormac McCarthy.
>Complete Works of John Donne
>Hamlet (I don’t dive too much into plays beyond Shakespeare).
>Marx
>Don’t have one but am open to recs
>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
>The Sacrifice
>Andrei Tarkovsky
>Hieronymous Bosch
>The Garden of Earthly Delights
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>>24706732
>Marx
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>>24702890
Feet (but only cute ones with cute toes) (not telling you which previous post was mine)
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>>24706732
Marx AND Tarkovsky?
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>>24702884
>Favourite novel and novelist.
In Search of Lost Time, Proust
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Iliad, Homer
>Favourite play and playwright.
Haven't started with plays yet
>Favourite philosopher.
Schopenhauer
>Favourite classical piece.
Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 8
>Favourite popular music album.
Tinderbox by Siouxsie & The Banshees
>Favourite film.
Sunset Blvd.
>Favourite director.
Hitchcock
>Favourite painter.
>Favourite painting.
Too dumb and uncultured for visual arts
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>Favourite novel and novelist.
Lord of The Rings and Tolkien
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Paradise Lost and Milton
>Favourite play and playwright.
Phantom of The Opera and Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
IDK
>Favourite classical piece.
Liszt - Mazeppa
>Favourite popular music album.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
>Favourite film.
In The Mood For Love
>Favourite director.
Kubrick
>Favourite painter.
Da Vinci
>Favourite painting.
Jupiter and Semele by Gustave Moreau

>Favourite body part
Tummy
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>>24705071
>can i ask why you liked it?
I identify with it
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>>24702884
>Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather; novelist is probably PKD
>The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford; Yeats for poet
>No playwright but Caligula by Camus for play
>I’ve read the most Camus, so maybe him. No particular favorite though
>Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt
>Is This Desire by PJ Harvey
>Film: Barry Lyndon
>John Carpenter
>none
>The Wild Hunt of Odin by Arbo
>>24703059
Shoutout Jack Gilbert
>>24706612
Ignatius
>>24706690
Reading Augustus right now and it’s brilliant
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>Favorite novel and novelist.
Novel: Flips between Tristram Shandy and Bluebeard by Vonnegut.
Novelist: Vonnegut
>Favorite poetry book and poet.
Any book of selected poems by Browning; Robert Browning
>Favorite play and playwright.
Antigone; Martin McDonagh
>Favorite philosopher.
St. Augustine of Hippo
>Favorite classical piece.
Mahler symphony no.7.
>Favorite popular music album.
Black Sabbath self-titled or Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.
>Favorite film.
Repo Man (original)
>Favorite director
Jim Jarmusch
>Favorite painter.
None
>Favorite painting.
I don’t believe I’m well-studied or cultured enough to understand most paintings. I like how some look but I haven’t felt anything.
>>24702890
Eyes
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>>24702890
Boobs, massive ones.
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>>24702884
Anna Karenina/ Tolstoy
Odyssey/ Homer
Euripides/ Medea
Heraclitus

Mozart horn concerto 1 - by Christopher hogwood
Laibach the sound of music

Spalovac Mrtvol
Federico Fellini

Don’t know. Maybe Vesuvius by Turner but I don’t know many paintings in comparison to books and movies
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>>24709273
>Tolstoy
>Homer
>Euripides
Holy based, literally same.
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>>24702884
>stoner
>pynchon
>wheel with a single spoke
>Pessoa
>endgame
>beckett
>cioran
>le tombau de couperin or mirrors
>pink moon or one of Elliott smith's albums
>waking life
>David lynch
>remedios varo
>fish magic by Paul klee

>>24702890
Tomboy boobie
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>>24704954
Based Chinese Elliott smith fan
>>24707931
Based scriabin fan
>>24708982
Based tummy enjoyer
>>24709039
Based frank Stanford fan
>>24709236
>eyes
:/

Also let's add
>most and least favorite race / ethnicity
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>>24702884
>melmoth the wanderer, Ken Kesey
>none
>none
>Wittgenstein
>none
>Joy Division - Closer
>Its A Wonderful Life
>Michael Mann
>Jacques-Louis David
>Jupiter and Thetis by Ingres
>>24710160
I love all races and ethnicities; least is Indians
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>>24707185
based
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>>24710160
Based
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>>24711034
Thank you sir
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>>24710490
>I love all races and ethnicities; least is Indians
you're missing out, anon
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>>24710160
not chinese but thanks. they're just the best at short poems and philosophy.
i'm an eye guy too, unironically. or perhaps it is ironic given my affinity for the chinese...
love t&a though, i'm not gay. the eyes are just the difference maker.
>most and least favorite race / ethnicity
chinese and arabs
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>>24711771
Patel Singh will not convince me



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