>*is the best american author in you're way*
nothing personnel kid

He looks like that sad cartoon dog

>>24550806 (OP)
i read pretty much all of his short stories as a kid sitting in a juvenile prison cell (not juvie mind you)
i doubt there is any other author who has had more influence on me than this man. i don't idolize him, but we are on familiar terms.
apparently he was a creep so there's that.

>>24550806 (OP)
I'm willing to say... He's the only actual good writer in the entirerty of the English language.

poe is alright, although i feel like he's overcredited for reinventing the wheel
i enjoyed his essay on interior decorating

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

Also, what's with his use of french, latin, spanish phrases without any translation?
Were people in those days knowledgeable in euro languages too?

>>24550831
skill issue

>>24550820
Seething Francoid I'm guessing?

>>24550831
that's common in literature at the time, it's an opportunity for you to learn, or to enjoy if you already know.

>>24550834
Yeah I'm not going to learn europoor languages for a few sentences in a short stories book.
Will learn Latin though at some point.

The best American author was either Philip K. Dick or Lovecraft, imho.

>>24550873
You forgot Brando Sando in that list buddy

I just finished A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and it was so fun, but whenever something was the 19th c. equivalent of being libbed out, I gave him the benefit of the doubt or read it as irony or just pretended to be a cultural relativist. And it worked. As God/Twain intended it

>>24550806 (OP)
That's not Cormac McCarthy

A fucking orangutan? Really?

>>24551007
that's not twain bro.

>>24551634
Yep. Kinoest twist kek.

>>24551007
Are you retarded?

>>24550806 (OP)
>He was found dead wearing another man's clothes
What???

>>24550831
well, yea, what cultured person doesn't know french, latin and spanish?

>>24550873
Lovecraft was too limited but Dick is definitely in the conversation.

>>24552233
I'm sorry to break it to you but German, English and Latin are the only relevant languages anon

>>24552253
How does one acquire this level of bad taste and delusion?

>>24552253
>German
>relevant
As a literary language? Not more than French. French has better poets, better novelists, better playwrights.

>>24552259
>>24552260
French feels like somebody talking while on the verge of sneezing. I can never take it seriously.
German is the real man's language.

>>24552267
>French feels like somebody talking while on the verge of sneezing.
And German feels like someone talking while already having the disease. Rs are almost identical to French which makes them sound like Donald Duck. But still, French has richer literature and it's far more relevant.

>>24550806 (OP)
>"Poe is the best american author"
>nothing personal kid
>Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of Poe's work in Continental Europe.[115]
His reputation survived in high literature thanks to Baudelaire and Mallarme. It helps to have the two best poets of a century being your cheerleaders, but why were Americans not able to recognize Poe until Lovecraft?

>>24552276
>denigrating true Rs
Can you even pronounce the gamer word? Objective improvement to phonology.

>>24552293
>but why were Americans not able to recognize Poe until Lovecraft?
Because mutts have always been the retarded cousins of Europeans.

>>24552293
Many people, Americans included, read based not on literary quality but on who reads these books. They base their opinions on the experts, on the explorers. That's why Poe wasn't taken seriously until Baudelaire translated it. That's why Max Lawton translates from The Untranslated's blog. They need to know they're reading something with a good reputation but rarely do they go to find these gems.

>>24552293
True Rs are what Italian and Spanish have, which comes from Latin. I think German also had them before they went homosexual. This disgusting phlegm-like sound in French and modern German is pure cancer.

>>24552356
Semi-rolling Rs like some Judeo-Arab Semitic language is not a true R, which have indeed come up late in the history of sounds in Europe, but remain an objective improvement.

>>24552366
True Rs are what Latin had and it's what Italian and Spanish currently have. French perverted this sound into some faggot throat sound. Btw modern Hebrew uses the same gay R as French now, so effectively you sound like a jew while Italian and Spanish speakers like Romans.

>>24552267
Anything worth reading in German has a suitable French or English translation.

>>24550806 (OP)
I like Masque of the Red Death.

>>24552293
Baudelaire is hollow tripe for nepo babies and BPD girls.

>you're
>personnel
>>24550807
Hahhaha

>>24552385
Modern Hebrew adapted it from 20th century yiddish, a dialect of German after German and other Germanic group languages had adopted to French hard Rs, and other proper guttural sounds from French.
The Jews up to the 19th century used to rolling R you seem to praise, whether in Hebrew or their various judeo-dialects, including when they condemned to death our lord Jesus Christ.
You also have a trouble with the concept of improvement. I know that hard R came late, they are still better.
You already admitted defeat when you refused to pronounce a true gamer word. You have condemned yourself to pronouncing a BBC cuckold parody of it to not annoy your bvll.

>>24550806 (OP)
>>24552414
kek never fails to filter the newfags

>>24552416
>all this seething yapping and cuck projection
End of the day, you sound like a jew, while non-faggot Germanics and Latins like Romans.

Cope all you want, frog boy.

>>24552420
>>you see i pretended to be an illiterate retard to reveal your disguise newfag!!
sure

>>24552496
holy fucking kek.
Ignorant and pompous