This is the greatest American author to have ever lived. Say something nice about him

This is the greatest American author to have ever lived. Say something nice about him.

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Moby Dick and a few of his shorter works are great...but those adventure novels. Whew lad.

That's not David Foster Wallace

he cute

That's not JK Rowling

The only American writer I feel immense envy towards

Melville, Herman. Love him. One would like to have filmed him at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat.

billy budd was gay lmao

Yeah, cause you’re better than Whitman, Faulkner, James, etc.

Yeah I am thanks. and those writers aren't even good, so it's not easy to do

Really? Cause you just wrote a contradiction in a matter of two sentences. No discernible talent

You're an idiot. That's why you're on /lit faggot

:(

Whitman and James were pure fags and Faulkner was a manlet

Not only was Melville an immensely talented writer, he was a former harpooner and a specimen of a man with a masculine face and beautiful hair

he was the ships florist!

>Melville
>not a big gay

I bet you think Achilles was gay for fucking twink boys too

ahem

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where do I start with this man? Just jump into the recognitions?

Yeah, chronological is best

JR

He was not a 4channer