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Show me better prose. Hint: you can't because it doesn't exist.

>> No.21976012

>>21976000
Thomas Browne
Herman Melville
James Joyce

>> No.21976018

>>21976000
James Thurber

>> No.21976024

>>21976000
Why did he kill himself, boys?

>> No.21976092

>>21976024
Mental illness. It ran in the family. Other relatives also killed themselves.

>> No.21976116

>>21976000
Henry David Thoreau

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21976122

>>21976012
>James Joyce
Please...

>> No.21976190

>>21976024
due to 2 concussions in a short span of time he lost his ability to write at the end. this was devastating to him since his writing was, as he saw it, his reason for living and so once he lost his ability to write he believed he lost his reason to live.

>> No.21976198

>>21976024
All his attempts to look ubermasculine had failed and his body was declining

>> No.21976204

>>21976092
>>21976190
>>21976198
Horrifying stuff and nightmare fuel. Getting old is going to fucking suck.