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9743726 No.9743726 [Reply] [Original]

Can you notice the similarities between the three men in the picture?

Well, I've noticed that they're all witty English writers who were quite plump and very out of shape.

The three of them had a strong passion for smoking, which is most likely the reason for their receding hairline.

They were all charismatic and were good public speakers.

They were involved in the political affairs of their time in one way or the other.

All of them wrote about religion and were praised by their followers for their witticism and ability to eloquently articulate their arguments.

I can go on and on, but there is something more to it as I will explain shortly.

Cont.

>> No.9743729
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>>9743726
Now can you draw the parallels between these three men and William Shakespeare?

This is where is gets spooky. All of the traits mentioned above can be found in Shakespeare, even the smoking.

But what is the explaination to all of this? I think that it's reasonable to assume that Shakespeare reincarnates himself every once in a while in a man who resembles him from his own country. Notice how all of them admired Shakespeare too.

I know this sounds /x/-tier, but how else can you explain such parallels?

There could be more Shakespeares to come.

>> No.9743730

And they were never photographed in the same room together at the same time ......

>> No.9743740

But Christopher Hitchens admitted he could never write non-fiction because he was non-creative.

>> No.9743750

>>9743726
>>9743729

A sedentary occupation leads to running to fat and that leads to mental sluggishness that has to be offset by stimulants.

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>>9743726

>smoking causes baldness

I stopped reading there. You shouldn't give away the troll so early. Rookie mistake. I can only give you a 1/10. Be glad it's not a 0.

>> No.9744195

CS Lewis wasn't all that fat. Your argument would hold more water if the third person in the picture was Chesterton. Actually, you probably meant to include Chesterton, but you didn't know what he looks like and mistook Lewis for him somehow.

>> No.9744210

>>9743726
>>9743729
go to any given pub in the uk and you'll come across a witty, overweight chainsmoker. are they all shakespeare too?

>> No.9744216

>>9743740
they look nothing alike, get your eyes checked. The number of people who'd know and would have to keep their mouths shut, I mean, I'm getting sleepy, man am I sleepy

>> No.9744232

>>9743726
Maybe there's just a lot of fat, smoking, soon-to-be-bald Brits.