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Has there even been a happy or even content literary genius?
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>>24746795
McCarthy
Faulkner
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Yes. The tortured artist is a psyop. Everyone is tortured, art is a salve for the wounds.
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>>24746857
To be clear content is what I'm saying yes to. Happiness as an overall state of being is also a psyop.
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No, enjoyment kills your muse
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The crazy/depressed artist/poet/musician only becomes a meme in a modernity after the liberal revolutions. Writers were commonly disaffected with a life of letters not only because writing and reading demands a lot of time alone in a world increasingly dominated by noise and discussion, but also because modernity is such a disaster for the sort of sweet life that literati are usually after. We actually can’t have a Virgil in 2025 because we just don’t live in that world. Instead, we can only have urban-dweller disenchanted with modern life and a world of selfish, disloyal, NPC people. It would take a great strength of will and frankly resources to be other than that as a writer. Houllebecq is the way he is for a reason.
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>>24746795
Shakespeare actually. Camus was definitely enjoying himself. Some of Gospel writers seemed happy.
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happiness is for the retards and sages
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>>24746952
>Shakespeare
his greatest works were written after he suffered the death of his child
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>>24746954
This bitch has subpar tits (she's an OF whore)
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>>24746981
And what about the other plays?
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>>24747061
you think it was a wake-up moment for him that he didn't just wanted te bo known anf remembered as someone that sits behind a computer?
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>>24746942
A happy or content life is also a creation of the modern world.



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