Writers whom you would call for a fight …..
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JerryCornelius — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 10:03 AM)
Mailer was a big girl's blouse. Torn, who is genuinely crazy, would have killed him and called it Tuesday.
I reckon Ambrose Bierce (survived being shot in the head), Cervantes (shot three times in the chest and lost an arm and lived to fight again), Thomas Malory (basically a one-man crime spree) and Yukio Mishima (samurai sword-wielding headcase) would be pretty handy. -
iamvox — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 10:14 AM)
Hemingway. Maybe Gillian Flynn, because I get the feeling she'd have a taser, pepper spray and maybe some brass knuckles on her, and that she'd fight dirty. The downside is that she'd manipulate the situation to make it all my fault when the cops show up.
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Speed_of_Late — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 06:45 AM)
Have you
seen
China Mieville? I have no idea if he's a fighter, but he sure looks like a man I'd like on my side in a fight. (Great novelist, too. An acquaintance tells me he's sweet and funny in person.)
Of course, my fighting methods are unconventional. I'll research my enemy thoroughly and say things likely to make him or her cry.
SPEED
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RockGrey — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 12:43 AM)
Ernest K. Gann. His military training, his working class experience as a pilot and sailor and world traveler, and his knowing how to live outside means he could hold ones' back in a scrap.
Anybody want a peanut ?- Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )
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darryl-tahirali — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:46 PM)
Ken Kesey. Champion wrestler in college. Might have made an Olympic squad were it not for injury.
William Burroughs. Not physically, but I've got to think that he'd have all kinds of devious crap to pull.
Hunter S. Thompson. Either from being ripped to the tits and completely fearless because of it, or from packing heat. Or both.
Trump is Putin's bitch.