Post interesting ways authors died. Jacques Futrelle died on the Titanic, for example.
>>24970447the body of Robert Walser was found lying in the snow on christmas day
>>24970447Pushkin got shot in the guy on a duel by the guy who cucked him and spent two days in agony.
Killed himself because he was being haunted by Mishima's ghost>he had nightmares about Mishima for two or three hundred nights in a row, and was incessantly haunted by the specter of Mishima.
>>24970476How is this possible?
Chamfort>Unable to tolerate the prospect of being imprisoned once more, in September 1793 he locked himself into his office and shot himself in the face. The pistol malfunctioned and he did not die even though he shot off his nose and his right eye. He then repeatedly stabbed his neck with a razor, but failed to cut an artery. He finally used the razor to stab himself in the chest and to cut his own hocks, aiming at the veins. He dictated to those who came to arrest him the well-known declaration, "I, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, hereby declare my wish to die a free man rather than to be brought as a slave in a prison," which he signed in a firm hand. His butler found him unconscious in a pool of blood. From then until his death in Paris the following year, he suffered intensely and was attended to by a gendarme, to whom he paid a crown a day.
>>24970479He knew him personally so it was like having a friend die. Haven't you have dreams about dead loved ones
>>24970447virginia woolf filling her pockets with heavy rocks and walking into a river is pretty sick
>El domingo 23 de mayo el médico Juan Evangelista Manrique comenta que Jose Asunción Silva lo visitó en su consultorio en el que tuvieron la siguiente conversación:>“—Mira esto —me dijo—, yo no puedo seguir viviendo con esta caspa. Esto es repugnante, es horrible. ¿No saben ustedes todavía con qué se cura esta inmundicia? ¿O están esperando a que el químico Pasteur se ocupe de nosotros, y nos enseñe a curarnos?”>“Fue entonces cuando me preguntó si era cierto que la percusión permitía establecer, con cierta exactitud, la forma y las dimensiones del corazón, y me suplicó que hiciera sobre él la demostración. Me presté gustoso a satisfacerlo y con un lápiz dermográfico tracé sobre el pecho del poeta toda la zona mate de la región precordial. Le aseguré que estaba normal ese órgano, y para dar más seguridad a mi afirmación, le dije que la punta del corazón no estaba desviada. Abrió entonces fuertemente los ojos y me preguntó en dónde quedaba la punta del corazón…¡Era nuestra última entrevista!”.>“En la madrugada del 24 de mayo de 1896, a los treinta años, con un revólver Smith & Wesson, José Asunción Silva se quitó la vida de un tiro en el corazón. Le dejaba a Colombia diez de los poemas más hermosos de la lengua castellana, y a sus acreedores $210.000 de deudas”. >“Por la mañana del domingo 24 de mayo, se encontró a Silva muerto entre su cama, abrazado de un revólver de grueso calibre, con la cara sonriente y pálida, una herida en la punta del corazón y junto a la cabecera una novela de D’Annunzio, El triunfo de la muerte”.
>>24970844I was going to post this one. Pvre kino
>>24970844Agua
>becomes paranoid that his food his being poisoned>will only eat foot prepared by his wife>wife gets sick and is in the hospital>godel starves to death
>>24971796Understandable. Given the logical preciseness of his work I assume he had an extreme form of OCD.
>>24970844So openly latinx
you'll never guess
>>24971796he couldn't make his own food???
>>24972104He might poison it
From Wikipedia. "On December 7, 1996, Eugene Izzi was found hanged, his body dangling outside the 14th-story window of his writing office in downtown Chicago. When his body was discovered, Izzi was wearing a bulletproof vest. In his pockets, investigators found brass knuckles, a can of "disabling spray" (likely mace or pepper spray), and a computer disc containing an unfinished manuscript."He was the author of hard-boiled, noir thrillers, considered Andrew Vachss a blood brother.
>>24970495>his death in Paris the following yearHoly shit, how do you fuck up killing yourself that badly?
>>24971765>>24972099I think /lit/ would like Silva>All his life, José Asunción Silva was madly in love with a woman he could not have. His love for her is rumored to be the inspiration for several of his poems. He pined for her and wrote about his pain over and over again. In 1891, the love of his life passed away. The death is said to be the inspiration behind José Asunción Silva’s most famous poem, Nocturno:>[...]>And your shadow>Languid, delicate;>And my shadow,>Sketched by the white moonlight's ray>Upon the solemn sands>Of the path, were joined together,>As one together,>As one together,>As one together in a great single shadow.—>So who was this muse? This woman who could inspire such incredible poetry?>His sister.https://www.poesi.as/jaslv010uk.htm
>>24970844> yo no puedo seguir viviendo con esta caspa.I doubt he killed himself because he had dandruff. Is it some slang that's not in the dictionary?
>>24972215I'm not sure, the closest to current usage is maybe "irritation" and he meant misery and was hoping for Pasteur to drop antidepressants or something. It is also possible that he meant some veneral disease or general skin rash. One this latter options, most likely
