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[Anonymous No.8740946]

ITT: Cool facts about authors

Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, mortar shrapnel wounds, three car crashes and bushfire burns.

[Anonymous No.8740949]

Ginsberg blew Burroughs, Cassady, and Kerouac.

[Anonymous No.8740957]

>>8740949
Those blowjob lips though.

[Anonymous No.8740960]

>>8740949
lol

[Anonymous No.8741000]

Virginia Woolf tried to kill herself twice before she drowned herself. She tried to jump out of a window when she was 22, and later tried to oversose on sleeping pills.

She would also hallucinate vividly and thought birds sang in Greek and that Shakespeare's King Henry was hiding in her garden shouting vulgarities

[Anonymous No.8741007]

>>8740946
Source? I don't believe you.

[Anonymous No.8741014]

>>8740946
it's a shame he couldn't survive himself

[Anonymous No.8741022]

Hemingway punched the shit out of Wallace Stevens. Ernie was 37, Stevens- 57. Later he wrote in a letter to someone that Stevens was a right cunt, but a damn fine poet.

[Anonymous No.8741034]

>>8741014
Wasn't his wife trying to get him to do more electro shock therapy? Sounds like his spouse was also a part of the problem.

[Anonymous No.8741038]

>>8741034
This is why you don't listen to women or (((psychologists)))

[Anonymous No.8741638]

>>8740946
Papa's son George died as Gloria

[Anonymous No.8741995]

This guy got kicked out of Harvard for doing something unknown while he was drunk. He also happened to be a drunk while at Harvard. He also happened to be a drunk.

[Anonymous No.8743555]

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and his wife lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Moscow because he believed living together would "kill the poetry" of their relationship.

[Anonymous No.8743611]

Nathanael West died in a car crash on the way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral.

[Anonymous No.8743646]

>>8740957
Ginsberg also liked to fuck kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fR2qHmxyjQ

[Anonymous No.8743669]

>>8743646
I'm not saying you're wrong but do you have anything actually legible to back that up?

[Anonymous No.8743714]

Tin Ujević had two electric cables right under his apartment widow. He was a bit of a luddite so he used to defiantly piss between the two cables.

[Anonymous No.8743953]

>>8740946
Also a KGB agent and U-boat hunter. How could one man be so based?

[Anonymous No.8743963]

>>8743953
>U-boat hunter

no, he was just larping while he had writer's block in cuba. wanted to be a big boy soldier like the ones he wrote about in spain

the apex of his 'hunting' career was spotting a fucking fishing boat or something and throwing a grenade at it before running away

he was a laughingstock at US high command

[Anonymous No.8743970]

>>8743963
Faulkner, pls go

[Anonymous No.8743971]

Beckett did cricket.

[Anonymous No.8743978]

>>8743970
i love hemingway's writing to death, don't get me wrong. but he definitely started going off the rails as an old man. don't blame him, he went through shit physically / mentally as a young man.

[Anonymous No.8744083]

>>8743669
it's not a secret what he supported, whether he did or not I haven't seen any legit sources (with kids younger than teens), but he's shit either way
there's dozens of queer zines and writings from the late 80s/90s about how much of a shit he and burroughs are and were