ITT: Cool facts about authors
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, mortar shrapnel wounds, three car crashes and bushfire burns.
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Ginsberg blew Burroughs, Cassady, and Kerouac.
Those blowjob lips though.
lol
Virginia Woolf tried to kill herself twice before she drowned herself. She tried to jump out of a window when she was 22, and later tried to oversose on sleeping pills.
She would also hallucinate vividly and thought birds sang in Greek and that Shakespeare's King Henry was hiding in her garden shouting vulgarities
Source? I don't believe you.
it's a shame he couldn't survive himself
Hemingway punched the shit out of Wallace Stevens. Ernie was 37, Stevens- 57. Later he wrote in a letter to someone that Stevens was a right cunt, but a damn fine poet.
Wasn't his wife trying to get him to do more electro shock therapy? Sounds like his spouse was also a part of the problem.
This is why you don't listen to women or (((psychologists)))
Papa's son George died as Gloria
This guy got kicked out of Harvard for doing something unknown while he was drunk. He also happened to be a drunk while at Harvard. He also happened to be a drunk.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and his wife lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Moscow because he believed living together would "kill the poetry" of their relationship.
Nathanael West died in a car crash on the way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral.
Ginsberg also liked to fuck kids
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I'm not saying you're wrong but do you have anything actually legible to back that up?
Tin Ujević had two electric cables right under his apartment widow. He was a bit of a luddite so he used to defiantly piss between the two cables.
Also a KGB agent and U-boat hunter. How could one man be so based?
>U-boat hunter
no, he was just larping while he had writer's block in cuba. wanted to be a big boy soldier like the ones he wrote about in spain
the apex of his 'hunting' career was spotting a fucking fishing boat or something and throwing a grenade at it before running away
he was a laughingstock at US high command
Faulkner, pls go
Beckett did cricket.
i love hemingway's writing to death, don't get me wrong. but he definitely started going off the rails as an old man. don't blame him, he went through shit physically / mentally as a young man.
it's not a secret what he supported, whether he did or not I haven't seen any legit sources (with kids younger than teens), but he's shit either way
there's dozens of queer zines and writings from the late 80s/90s about how much of a shit he and burroughs are and were