/lit/ - Literature

>>12177575
>tfw ywn be a late 19th, early 20th century aristocrat
>ywn drink laudanum with Aryan occultists, phrenologists, and fortune tellers on your way to the Paris World's Fair via zeppelin
>ywn sip tea with fashionable qts, decorated tsarist cavalry officers, and Leo Tolstoy on a first class luxury railroad compartment on your way to the Winter Palace
>ywn throw peanuts at Zulu tribesman at a human zoo
>ywn spitroast a princess in a picturesque Austria castle with Rainer Maria Rilke
>ywn fuck Chinese catamites in your opium den/brothel "Little Shangri-La"
>ywn go on an exotic bird safari with young Theodore Roosevelt
>ywn get drunk with ur m8s at the pub then pee off the Great Sphinx
>ywn drink absinthe with your live-in 15 year old prostitute after your lifestyle leads you to a mountaintop Swiss sanatorium

there's very little question that humanity reached its peak during this period