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Post writers who killed people in real life.

>> No.17534486

Celine and Hemingway were both soldiers in wartime. IDK if they specifically shot anyone though

>> No.17534496

>>17534486
Hemingway drove an ambulance and Celine was probably a reluctant soldier judging by Journey to the End of the Night. Wittgenstein was a soldier also but carried ammunition around behind the lines iirc.

Jack Kerouac was involved in the murder of a homosexual man in his early 20s, but I think his involvement is limited to hiding evidence or something.

>> No.17534498

>>17534301
Wittgenstein.

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>>17534301
the eyes are a dead giveaway

>> No.17534501

>>17534301
Homer

>> No.17534524
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Mailer's pal Jack Abbott

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Famous author Juice.

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>> No.17534548

>>17534524
What was Mailer's problem?

>> No.17534565

>>17534548
High T? Or low T pretending to be high T.

>> No.17534570

Althusser

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>>17534535
>not posting the best cover

>> No.17534597
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Angela Davis

>> No.17534617

>>17534301
Orwell made a point of killing fascists in the Spanish civil war

>> No.17534627
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Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn

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You just know

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Uncle Ted!

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Salinger, in the Ardennes

>> No.17534713

Of the three sorts of killing (war, suicide, other) "other" is surely the most interesting. More often than not they seem to be duels.

>Thomas Malory
Almost certainly killed several people. He got up to a lot of mischief — supposedly he was leader of a gang which committed dozens of violent robberies. He was locked up on more than one occasion but often broke out. He sounds like a lively fellow all round.

>Ben Johnson
He killed an actor in a duel and they were going to imprison him or execute him for it but he pleaded "benefit of clergy". This means, he showed he could read and write Latin and Greek and hence was too valuable an intellectual to be thrown away.

>Sylvia Plath
She killed a writer called Sylvia Plath.

>Emily Dickinson
She lived as a semi-recluse in a house in Amherst, usually going for long walks or hiding in her bedroom so as to avoid meeting guests. Well-meaning relatives arranged for a number of eligible bachelors to visit her, but nothing came of this and several of the young men were never seen again. It's now considered almost certain that Emily murderered them and buried the bodies in the woods nearby, although no conclusive evidence has so far been unearthed.

>Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Ernst Junger
All these WWI guys pretty much definitely killed several people in hand-to-hand combat, if their letters, autobiographies, etc are to be believed. (Apparently Sassoon flipped between pacifist hatred of the war and a sort of insane blood lust when he would go on massive killing sprees. Junger was the same except without the pacifist bits, haha.)

>> No.17534723

George Orwell.

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>Tolstoy
Went to war and admits to "murdering" people in Confessions

>> No.17534844

>>17534570
BASED

>> No.17535934

Ludwig von Mises was in charge of an artillery unit in WW1. Probably killed more people than everyone else in this thread combined lol which is really ironic for a pacifist libertarian.

>> No.17535970

>>17534496
Jack's friend killed a guy who was stalking him and asked Jack for help, so Jack hid the knife.

>> No.17535991

>>17534500
OH NONONONONO

>> No.17536034

Caesar

>> No.17536088

>>17534641
Came here to post this

>> No.17536094

>>17534713
>It's now considered almost certain that Emily murderered them and buried the bodies in the woods nearby, although no conclusive evidence has so far been unearthed.
Surely you meme

>> No.17536100

>>17534832
Doesn't he say he ordered hits? I guess noblemen can do that

>> No.17536120

>>17534548
He's secretly a honey badger. Look at him.

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We just had this thread like a week ago. I guess I'll repost my contribution.

>> No.17536138

Xenophon, most ancient writers probably, Mishima (himself)

>> No.17536157

>>17536094
You really think someone would do that — just go on the internet and lie?

>> No.17536168

>>17534713
>It's now considered almost certain that Emily murderered them and buried the bodies in the woods nearby, although no conclusive evidence has so far been unearthed.
I desperately want to believe this, please give me reference material

>> No.17536244

>>17536168
I desperately want to believe it too. That's why I made it up.

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>> No.17536528

Rachel Carson gave millions malaria

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6 billion...

>> No.17536786

>>17536593
Fucking camper

>> No.17536894

Cervantes probably did.

>> No.17536899

>>17536786
It's called Table Talk, not Cupholder Talk

>> No.17536915

>>17534301
based

>> No.17536927

>>17534301
All of the three major Greek tragedians were soldiers, so it's likely they killed someone at some point.

Also this >>17536894.

>>17535934
Is it that ironic considering he's a proud manservant of the bugmachine?

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Served in the Somme so prob

>> No.17537047 [DELETED] 

>>17534301
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>> No.17537070

>>17534486
Chaucer was a soldier too.

>> No.17537085

>>17534496
Celine received a number of awards for valor, so I would not describe him as a reluctant soldier even if his writing may make it appear so. With Wittgenstein, carrying around ammunition would just be a task given to soldiers rotated off the front trenches where they spent 1/5th of their time. IIRC he was an artillery officer but his diary mentions being in the midst of combat several times, which wouldn't be unusual.

>> No.17537101

>>17534301
Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War

>> No.17537106

I am surprised no one has mentioned Tolkien. Anyways, there's no shortage of writers who were soldiers in wartime.

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>>17534301

>> No.17537151

>>17537106
I was just going to post. He was in the front lines, wasn't he?

>> No.17537161

>>17537085
Celine strikes me as a guy who would never hesitate to kill despite zero belief in the war