Who was the last Bohemian writer? Living in some cheap attic somewhere without a job, spending all his hours on his art . . . it feels like such a life is impossible in the modern age.
>>24926007BAP
>>24926007I'm homeless and basically live like this.
>>24926007>Who was the last Bohemian writer?Retardhttps://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/13131/czech-novels-contemporary-literature-everyone-should-read
>>24926007>you will own nothing and you will be happyWhat are you even talking about?
>>24926007Cioran
>>24926019He's not Czech.
>>24926007They're probably all on substack now
>>24926007Cormac McCarthy >After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy moved to what Lee's obituary calls "a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville.">While living in the French Quarter in New Orleans, McCarthy was evicted from a $40-a-month room for failing to pay his rent. When he traveled the country, McCarthy always carried a 100-watt bulb in his bag so he could read at night, no matter where he was sleeping>In 1969, he and his new wife Anne DeLisle moved to Louisville, Tennessee, and purchased a dairy barn, which McCarthy renovated, doing the stonework himself. According to DeLisle, the couple lived in "total poverty", bathing in a lake. DeLisle claimed, "Someone would call up and offer him $2,000 to come speak at a university about his books. And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page. So we would eat beans for another week."
>>24926007>Living in some cheap attic somewhere without a job, spending all his hours on his artDoes shitposting on 4chan from my parents' basement count?
Most of them live this way or at least feign it or buy enough booze smokes and drugs with their trust fund money to appear broke
>>24928879Are there still $40 a month rooms for rent somewhere in America? (Adjusted for inflation, that's $400.)
>>24928883Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as is art. And if you find everything beautiful then you live in some sort of beautiful heaven or paradise. From some perspective somewhere what you are doing is both beautiful and art and in the end we’re all just cosmic dust in the balancer’s eye no matter what you did or didn’t.
>>24928908I’ve seen people get a hotel room and try to put it up on Airbnb to share for 30-50 a night. You could probably find an extremely sketchy nightly hostel setup for that price somewhere too. not the kind you post on instagram but the kind where you’re scared to goto sleep and wake
>>24928908nick mullen lived in new york city for 350/mo
>>24928927in like 2015 and he was in a windowless cage infected with bed bugs and ring worm
>>24928908You can rent a hostel bed in Italy by the month for around that price. I got a ton of bed bugs from doing this, would highly recommend it.Best deal in my experience is to buy a sailboat and live on it. Pay like $150 a month in dock fees in some shithole town in southern florida.
>>24928987>Pay like $150 a month in dock fees in some shithole town in southern florida.Damn, is this actually doable?
>>24926007Being jobless and living in a shithole apartment is impossible in the modern age? this is probably the dumbest take I've ever read on this godforsaken site.
>>24926007Just squat nigga
Since I got divorced I've been living in a room in my parents trailer. I work about 20 hours a week, try to go out once a week to interact with humans, and go for long walks, otherwise my time is spent in my room split 50/50 between consuming media and writing.
>>24929110>Being jobless and living in a shithole apartment is impossible in the modern age?>this is probably the dumbest take I've ever read on this godforsaken site.No you're wrong. No one without a job or without living at home can possibly afford even a cheap apartment. Even people on disability can't afford the cheapest bachelor pads where I am. Instead of living in a shitty apartment people are just homeless. It's grim. There are some creative people though who are able to raise themselves up a bit and find creative ways to be homeless and at least somewhat comfortable.
>>24929007Yeah I lived like this for a couple years. Also had a boat on dry dock, I'd pay $400 a month and it came with a storage shed the size of a small room that I used as a workshop. Just got to keep it discrete since having accommodation this cheap is illegal in most western countries.Actually, when I was in Spain I was looking at some dock rentals where you can get a storage space the size of a small apartment for under $100. But you had better speak their specific gay dialogue of Catalan otherwise they'll tell you to fuck off and die.
>>24929209Yeah, it's fucked up. If you're in Europe or parts of the United States I'd say go for >>24929131, I was actually living in a large mansion in France with an entire floor of the building as my personal space by doing this. If you're in a cucked country you can usually take over logistical spaces that operate 24/7. Think train stations, airports, universities stuff like that. In an absolutely last ditch effort you can break into a vacation home and just forcibly take it over, but you will get arrested eventually by the zog.
>>24927184Are you a bot or did your brain just malfunction from meme brain rot?
>>24926007Julian MacLaren-Ross, I'd say. Would mooch around pubs drinking all day, dodging debt collectors and went schizo and tried to murder George Orwell's widow.
>>24926007Honor Levy
>>24926007George Sterling
