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20981742 No.20981742 [Reply] [Original]

Why does a writer's work always turn to shit when they find religion?

>> No.20981866

>>20981742
Cope. Eliot, Auden and Wagner all wrote their best works while Christians.

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>> No.20982042

>>20981742
>all his best work, by far, is after he became devoutly religious
Nice cope, OP. Better luck next time

>> No.20982201
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>The intrinsic value of a book does not depend on the importance of its subject (else the theologians would prevail, and mightily), but on the manner of approaching the accidental and the insignificant, of mastering the infinitesimal. The essential has never required the least talent.
t. cioran

>> No.20982295

>>20981742
eliot being the one exception