If you could invite, say, 5 historical figures over for dinner, who would you choose?
socrates, hegel, joyce, pushkin and shakespeare
i would pretend i've never heard of any of them and we'd watch some tv and eat take out
The vestal virgins
>>7451981
I dunno about all people but limiting it to writers I'd invite Roberston Davies, Richard Wright, Chinua Achebe, Annie Dillard, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
When I first started I realized I had nothing but white guys, which doesn't seem very polite when it comes to the entire field of literature. This would give an interesting variety of perspective, although I would truly miss John Kenneth Galbraith and Saul Bellow and make sure to send them "thinking of you" cards.
>>7452112
Should never have been separated. Anti-Semite moot is a faggot
>>7452112
this is literally a /his/ thread
but the people who keep obsessing over which threads go where have real mental issues
>>7452118
If you want to talk about a history book, sure. This is just a pop-history thread though and belongs on that board. This has nothing to do with literature.
If you made it "5 historical authors" then maybe it belongs here as a shitpost thread, but otherwise, this belongs on /his/.
schpoenblowers, diogenes, kneecheese, rousseau, and zizek.
We would all take turns spanking the shit out of roussa
Adolf
Goebbels
John Keats
HP Lovecraft
Ezra Pound
>>7451981
To keep this /lit/ related:
>Plato
>Jesus
>Chretien de Troyes
>Marquis de Sade
>Thomas Pynchon
>>7452210
That dinner table would be entertaining as fuck, but John Keats would feel out of place
>>7451981
Assuming that they speak my language?
>Mahler
>Flaubert
>Hemingway
>Camus
>Bill Burr / George Carlin
I mean really, chances are everyone is thinking of who they'd invite so that they could learn the most, and I'd be most interested in learning music, disciplined writing, philosophy, and comedy.
