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Writers and philosophers who were NEETs? Descartes used to sleep 12 hours every day and had irregular employment, I guess you can call him a NEET

>> No.19670131

>>19670121
Who cares? We're here to talk about books, numbskull.

>> No.19670136

It was not uncommon centuries ago. Writers and philosophers were aristocrat, they profited from other's people work and spend their day in idleness.

>> No.19670146
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>>19670136
There were philosophers with jobs.

>> No.19670159

>>19670146
Yes. Like Pablo Escobar.

>> No.19670182

>12 hours
can someone redpill me on sleeping 12 hours a day?
Im seeing this habit alot more frequently such as Federer.

i am certain most would say sleeping 12 hours were unhealthy.

>> No.19670297
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>>19670182
>animals of considerable intelligence sleep soundly and long. even human beings require more sleep the more developed, as regards quantity and quality, and the more active their brain is. Montaigne ... Descartes ... Kant. for the more completely awake a man is, in other words the clearer and more wide-awake his consciousness, the greater is his necessity for sleep, and thus the more soundly and longer he sleeps. accordingly, much thinking or strenuous head-work will increase the need for sleep.

>that we have far less mental energy in summer than in winter is partly explained by the fact that in summer we sleep less; for the more soundly we have slept, the more completely wakeful, the more wide awake are we afterwards. but this must not lead us astray into lengthening our sleep unduly, since it then loses in depth and in soundness.
t. schopenhauer

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Stayed in her room and wrote poetry while crushing on her sister in law and older married men.

>> No.19670529

>>19670121
He's just like me. I'm like a second Descartes

>> No.19671797

>>19670131
>nooo you aren't allowed to discuss the lifestyle of writers on /lit/

>> No.19671897

>>19670121
Descartes was a master swordsman who got a dispensation to join the Prussian army to train them in sword fighting and artillery, choosing to refuse his pay for the right to refuse taking part in any battle.
Rumour has it that later in his life, a boat he was travelling on was attacked by swedish pirates. He singlehandedly beat them and defended his boat's crew.
His friends famously reproached him both his popularity with beautiful women and his constant rebuttal of their interest.
Not exactly your average fucking NEET.
He did have a mechanical body-pillow doll daughter though...

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>>19670121
Portrait reminded me of a book I'm reading and don't mind recommending: The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes
by Steven Nadler

>> No.19671920

>>19670297
extremely based and true.

>> No.19671933

>>19670182
i sleep like 9+ and ive noticed my memory is 10x better than people around me. its quite scary when i point out an event in the past with precise detail to a person and they don't recall it or recall it very vaguely. mind you this is otherwise intelligent people.

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>>19671897
>Rumour has it that later in his life, a boat he was travelling on was attacked by swedish pirates. He singlehandedly beat them and defended his boat's crew.
Yes, I've heard that before, I've no idea if it's true though. I don't have a source but IIRC one of his friends supposedly joked that instead of writing philosophical treatises he should have written treatises on the art of sword fighting, as that would have been more useful.
>mechanical body-pillow doll daughter
That's just some weird myth repeated all the time in philosophy circles.

>> No.19672131

>>19671935
A teacher on Descartes told us once he did intend once on writing a dueling textbook, but it never went anywhere. Would have been kino as fuck.
>>19671935
>That's just some weird myth repeated all the time in philosophy circles.
I thought we had a letter written by the captain who got so freaked he threw the doll overboard?

>> No.19672182

>>19670297
Based Schop, always a helping hand.

Also >head-work
I loved that expression.

>> No.19672192

>>19670337
>and older married men
They have social proof, you know?
Kek