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6570895 No.6570895 [Reply] [Original]

Why are all of the best authors blind?

>Homer
>Milton
>Joyce
>Borges

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>> No.6570977
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6570977

they were blind not whining pussies. this is pic related to what the average morrissey fan lools like.

>> No.6570982

same reason why all smart people wear glasses

>> No.6570986

>>6570895
>Why are all of the best authors blind?

Because they read the most, I guess.

>> No.6571035

You forgot Nietzsche, who invented his own early keyboard ball thingy to help him write

>> No.6571050

>>6570977
nice projecting

>> No.6571055

>>6570977
Actually the average Morrissey fan is female

>> No.6571077

>>6570895
>Borges
>best
Pick one

>> No.6571082

>>6571055
>ackuhally

Ugh gross never thought I'd see mansplaining come to /lit/

Feel big and strong now champ?

>> No.6571095
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>>6571082
>mansplaining

You're stupid.

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>>6571095

>ackuhally I uh ur the dummy

>> No.6571120

>>6571082
kill yourself you fucking cunt

>> No.6571141
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6571141

Well as Borges says on the subject: Homer was probably an invention by the greeks.
Why did they make him blind?
Perhaps because they felt that poetry was a thing made primarily for the ear.

>> No.6571144

Joyce never went completely blind and all his stuff was written before then anyway.

Borges went blind at an older age as well when most his works were completed.

Homer wasn't even real

>> No.6571257

>>6570895

Homer's blindness is apocryphal, cause unknown.
Milton had retinal detachment, which is related to visually stressful jobs, or glaucoma, which was just related to age.
Joyce probably had syphilis.
Borges' blindness was congenital.

They all ended up blind, OP, because they were successful enough in their lives to get to an age where their conditions advances, >50. It wasn't blindness that made them great, so much as greatness allowed them to be blind, they didn't die in a ditch or dwindle in obscurity.

>> No.6571287

>>6571141
Honestly I think it's just the poetic irony of a dude being a creator of a sight-based medium. But what do I know, I drink my own cum

>> No.6571289

>>6570895
they read a lot and get blind
duh

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>>6571141
>turboqts will never gaze at you as you live like a dog

>> No.6571406

>>6571295
>>6571287
I feel surrounded by freaks

>> No.6571442

>>6570895
https://youtu.be/egE8kDHGUYo?t=21m8s
talk about choice. 21:08 they talk a bit about his shitty eyesight and relevance to his writing

>> No.6571487

>>6571442
very interesting thank you anon

>> No.6571490

>>6571287
do you ever find that sometimes you get pee in your cum and it's like globular bits of yellow?

>> No.6571605

>>6571442
>choice
fuck, i meant joyce, obviously. how does this even happen

>>6571487
ur welcome

>> No.6573074

>>6571490
Yeah man that's fucked up

>> No.6573704

>>6570895
you forgot Jack Vance.