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Anonymous

03/09/26(Mon)04:16:16 No.25129428

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Being genuinely serious and sincere here, no memeing. What is the closest possible literary equivalent to Xavier: Renegade Angel?

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:20:18 No.25129434

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:20:18 No.25129434

>>25129428
A Thousand Plateaus

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:21:30 No.25129436

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:21:30 No.25129436

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The closest that I've read is the foundation series

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:21:54 No.25129438

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:21:54 No.25129438

>>25129436
Gay. SPWP

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:23:41 No.25129442

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:23:41 No.25129442

>>25129436
Explain your reasoning. I've read those and I get no Xavier vibes whatsoever from them.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:24:42 No.25129444

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:24:42 No.25129444

>>25129434
Looking for something with a narrative anon, a story.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:24:46 No.25129447

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:24:46 No.25129447

>>25129428
You've heard of the bizarro genre?

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:26:43 No.25129450

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:26:43 No.25129450

>>25129447
Surprisingly, I have not. Got any recommendations?

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:28:59 No.25129456

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:28:59 No.25129456

>>25129450
Cameron Pierce

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:29:42 No.25129457

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:29:42 No.25129457

>>25129456
>Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
SIGH...

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:39:01 No.25129468

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:39:01 No.25129468

>>25129444
You can unironically treat most philosophy as a worldbuilding narrative of the universe so to speak, just without protagonists

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)05:46:23 No.25129535

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)05:46:23 No.25129535

>>25129428
Shakespeare's comedies, Joyce and Pynchon. Puns abound. Pynchon in particular delights in crude humour and modern commentary.

Why? all delights are vaine, and that most vaine
Which with paine purchas'd, doth inherit paine,
As painefully to poare vpon a Booke,
To seeke the light of truth, while truth the while
Doth falsely blinde the eye-sight of his looke:
Light seeking light, doth light of light beguile:
So ere you finde where light in darkenesse lies,
Your light growes darke by losing of your eyes.
Studie me how to please the eye indeede,
By fixing it vpon a fairer eye,
Who dazling so, that eye shall be his heed,
And giue him light that it was blinded by.
Studie is like the heauens glorious Sunne,
That will not be deepe search'd with sawcy lookes:
Small haue continuall plodders euer wonne,
Saue base authoritie from others Bookes.
These earthly Godfathers of heauens lights,
That giue a name to euery fixed Starre,
Haue no more profit of their shining nights,
Then those that walke and wot not what they are.
Too much to know, is to know nought but fame:
And euery Godfather can giue a name

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)05:48:06 No.25129538

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)05:48:06 No.25129538

Samuel Delany

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)06:59:47 No.25129582

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)06:59:47 No.25129582

>>25129428
Pynchon

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)11:52:03 No.25129883

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)11:52:03 No.25129883

>>25129438
Yes
>>25129442
Mainly just from the unfolding narrative being vaguely similar. I haven't actually read anything close to xavier.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)12:08:16 No.25129906

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)12:08:16 No.25129906

I saw an Xavier thread on cc today too... what does it meeeean?

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)12:10:11 No.25129909

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)12:10:11 No.25129909

>>25129457
it's pretty good

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)13:03:57 No.25129984

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)13:03:57 No.25129984

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the creators cited him as an influence and even interviewed him
>https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-gordon-lish-2/

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)15:37:00 No.25130199

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)15:37:00 No.25130199

>>25129984
That one title specifically?

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)16:12:21 No.25130249

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)16:12:21 No.25130249

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Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Seraphini

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)17:07:19 No.25130342

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)17:07:19 No.25130342

>>25129468
>philosophy is irl worldbuilding
time to lay off the fantasy slop

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)17:08:30 No.25130346

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)17:08:30 No.25130346

>>25129468
Shut up, no it's not.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)17:10:34 No.25130349

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)17:10:34 No.25130349

>>25130249
>Le Voynich manuscript but more modern
Man, fuck off.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)18:23:23 No.25130518

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)18:23:23 No.25130518

>>25129428
Viper the Rapper.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)19:19:29 No.25130652

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)19:19:29 No.25130652

>>25129444
Don Quixote

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)19:27:21 No.25130670

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)19:27:21 No.25130670

>>25129428
Probably the Iluminatus trilogy.

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)19:27:38 No.25130671

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)19:27:38 No.25130671

>>25130652
That book sucks

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)21:14:10 No.25130823

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)21:14:10 No.25130823

>>25129428
my dairy desu

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)21:18:19 No.25130829

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)21:18:19 No.25130829

>>25129428
From the creators:
“When people ask about what made us, we tell them – read Lish, watch Bunuel, and listen to ODB.”

Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)21:24:45 No.25130837

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)21:24:45 No.25130837

>>25130349
No YOU fuck up