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Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:33:45 2015 No.6276124 [Reply] [Original]

In his novella 'Seymour: An Introduction', Salinger describes Vincent Van Gogh, Soren Kierkegaard and Franz Kafka (as well as his own character, Seymour) as "the four variously notorious Sick Men", four people he turns to when he wants "perfectly credible information about modern artistic processes".

All these men were great artists (either prolific writers or painters). According to Buddy, they were also "sick" in one way or another.

Can you think of any other writers that could fit into a category of 'Sick Men'?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:35:47 2015 No.6276127 anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:37:54 2015 No.6276131 Elliot Smith

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:47:04 2015 No.6276154 me tilts chalice of mountain dew

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 03:02:40 2015 No.6276181 >>6276124 If "sick" means filled with internal strife, then literally every great writer ever

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