who exactly is this guy, why is he famous he has become meme tier?

>>8372680
Samuel Johnson. He was a smart guy and wrote some shit. He's probably dead now. The chances of him being deceased are quite high.

>>8372680
Also the reason he is meme status is because that image is highly exploitable. The look of disgust on his face leads posters to use it to show disdain for a poster. Perhaps because of their "Pleb" sensibilities and taste. It's as if he's thinking, "The fuck you say?!?"

>>8372680
That's Harold Bloom in his younger years.

>>8372680
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

>bookish weirdo
>probably had tourette's
>conservative politics

He's a /lit/ forefather. Never read Boswell's Life of Johnson, should pick it up soon.

>>8372699
This, but he also had high level banter.

Harold Bloom, a man with no penis

the good doctor wrote some excellent but somewhat ignored poetry, some better remembered literary and poetic criticism and complied one of the first comprehensive dictionaries.

also, and my source for this is QI so take it with a pinch of salt, was into BDSM and liked to be whipped ... interesting guy.

>>8372722
Fuck me don't let /pol/ know his backstory, he'll be their new patron saint.

Bantz.

>>8373404
>implying /pol/ reads

>>8372722
>conservative politics

Then why the fuck are we even discussing this imbecile?

Mods, delete this thread.

>>8373491
>>>/numale/

>>8373526
Is that supposed to be an insult?

I mean yeah thanks, I'm not a complete piece of shit.

>>8373563
Can't tell if Pol false flag or just retarded

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If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a
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>>8372693
>probably dead now
>chances of him being deceased are quite high

>>8372700
kek

>>8373404
he was also against slavery and imperialism though

old jacobites and modern conservatives don't have all that much in common

I read something about him dying, like, around the time david bowie did but it turns out he died a few years back.

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>>8372680
He's actually famous because of this episode of Blackadder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwL56Gc0plU

>>8375007
rofl

>>8372680

He's the greatest hack writer that ever lived.

It's ironic that his contemporaries thought he would go into the canon and be studied forever, when all anybody reads of his are the witty quotations recorded by Boswell.

People are more interested as him as a character and a wit than as a writer. Any reasonably educated person can tell you that he ate like an animal, took snuff by the fistfull, was ridden with motor tics, and prejudiced against the Scots. But they probably can't quote one line from any of his writings, or even name one besides his Dictionary.

>>8373563
>I mean yeah thanks, I'm not a complete piece of shit.
You weren't, far as we knew, but now you definitely are.

>>8375014

what's with the white light

>>8375035

critics are hardly ever remembered from ages past.

Look at ruskin. not talked about outside of academic circles.

>>8375035
>and prejudiced against the Scots

He's already in my top 10