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>Kafka: rarely left Prague
>Pessoa: rarely left Lisbon
>Schulz: rarely left Drohobych
>Lovecraft: rarely left Providence (until middle-age)
>Proust: rarely left Paris
>Borges: rarely left Buenos Aires

However:

>Henry Miller: loved travel, loved sex, loved life
>Oscar Wilde: travelled widely
>Robert Stevenson: travelled the world
>Ernest Hemingway: widely travelled


What makes some writers very routine-orientated and uninterested in travel, barely even leaving their home city, while others were very energetic, well-travelled and outgoing?
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Because writers show the same diverstiy in their travel habits as non-writers. What do you think requires explanation?
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>>24988845
the first list fucking clears the second list. lesson learned: dont leave your house
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>>24988845
So if I start reading the works of Henry Miller, would I start then loving to travel, love to have sex and loving life as well?
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>>24988845
Oscar Wilde was an ENFP; and also, at a certain point, he was literally making a living from speaking gigs abroad.
Kafka sounds like some sort of introvert.

Very basic personality psychology.
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>>24988871
Oscar is worth three men.
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>>24988845
To the first one you can also add Thoreau and Kant
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>>24988902
oscar could take on any three men
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>>24988962
or boys
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>>24988891
Not really. For a person who lived such a bohemian life degenerate life, his work is extremely boring.
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