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Which authors were ahead of their time?
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Which authors were ahead of their time?
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no man can surpass his own time
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>>7886861
>Melville
>Dante
>Joyce
> Gene Wolfe
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h.g. wells....get it haha? cuz he writed about time travul and stuff....hehe he was totaly ahead of theyre time
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Is that from the carpet people? Or is it the truckers, diggers & wings series? Yeah the latter.
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>>7886861
>Terry Pratchett
Nope
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ahead of their time eh

i think Whitman spoke (wrote) as if from some future and perfected age, a deathless, sinless universe of boundless godly love. jm2c
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All writers are products of their times, and shallow times produce shallow writers, which is why all generation Y authors are shit and why there will never be great literature again.
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>>7886925
Even when our catom bombs reduce our castles to dust, the sun is obscured by endless clouds of death, and the triumphs of science are memories of nightmares, dead old faces staring blind from dirt?

When a man can sing again and mean what he sings, can unselfconsciously cry for love, for joy, for triumph?

Can the poem die when the heart persists through rain and drought, through the mechanical hiss of contingency's factories? Today it buckles, today it bows, but like a torrent it will water the land again.
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Dostoevski, because he predicted my fucking future.
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>>7886962

stop it m8, i'm shutting you down before you hurt yourself.
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>>7886997
Right now I'm a soaring bird - I don't know death, and so how can I die? Each moment is eternal, and the array of my selves breathes at the closing edge of perseverant time. Shoot down me and I (etc etc)
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Shakespeare. He wrote about existentialism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Queer-Transgender feminist theory before they even existed.
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>Augustine
>Rabelais
>Donne
>Stern
>Austen
>Carlyle
>Melville
>Kafka
>Woolf
>Joyce
>Achebe
>Borges
>Gaddis
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Lautréamont

>Il y a des heures dans la vie où l'homme, à la chevelure pouilleuse, jette, l'oeil fixe, des regards fauves sur les membranes vertes de l'espace; car, il lui semble entendre, devant lui, les ironiques huées d'un fantôme. Il chancelle et courbe la tête: ce qu'il a entendu, c'est la voix de la conscience. Alors, il s'élance de la maison, avec la vitesse d'un fou, prend la première direction qui s'offre à sa stupeur, et dévore les plaines rugueuses de la campagne. Mais, le fantôme jaune ne le perd pas de vue, et le poursuit avec une égale vitesse. Quelquefois, dans une nuit d'orage, pendant que des légions de poulpes ailés, ressemblant de loin à des corbeaux, planent au-dessus des nuages, en se dirigeant d'une rame raide vers les cités des humains, avec la mission de les avertir de changer de conduite, le caillou, à l'oeil sombre, voit deux êtres passer à la lueur de l'éclair, l'un derrière l'autre; et, essuyant une furtive larme de compassion, qui coule de sa paupière glacée, il s'écrie: "Certes, il le mérite; et ce n'est que justice." Après avoir dit cela, il se replace dans son attitude farouche, et continue de regarder, avec un tremblement nerveux, la chasse à l'homme, et les grandes lèvres du vagin d'ombre, d'où découlent, sans cesse, comme un fleuve, d'immenses spermatozoïdes ténébreux qui prennent leur essor dans l'éther lugubre, en cachant, avec le vaste déploiement de leurs ailes de chauve-souris, la nature entière, et les légions solitaires de poulpes, devenues mornes à l'aspect de ces fulgurations sourdes et inexprimables.
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>>7886861
Gaddis, Gass, Hawkes, and McElroy are still running circles around most authors today.
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