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Who was the first literary schlub?
- ggm 6y agoSancho Panza Oblomov Pantagruel
- 082349872349872 6y agoStrepsiades in The Clouds? (we probably would need to read sumerian to find the first)
- smitty1e 6y agoCertainly not the first, but a glorious explanation of the schlub/anti-hero is Updike's character, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run
- ginko 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel
- cafard 6y agoI'm tempted to vote for Aeneas, though I know that's not what Virgil had in mind for him.
- cafard 6y agoAre schlubs necessarily heavy? I see that someone asked that on a the linked site. And I should say that while fat has often been mocked, thinness as such wasn't a desired character for much of history, being associated with poverty.
- tomcam 6y agoFalstaff