These are always interesting. Literary trivia thread. Russian

>>8086221

oblig Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same (calendar) day

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>>8086221

Homer was actually a black woman.

John Keats beat up a butcher's boy who he found abusing a stray cat

>>8086265
source?

>>8086265
Good man

>>8086265
Good. I've done something similar as well.

Kierkegaard's last words were "How shall I find the time?" in response to his cousin asking if Kierkegaard would visit him in Horsens.

At the age of 12, Harlan Ellison watched his father die of a heart attack on the living room floor.

Balzac drank up to 50 cups of coffee every day and often wrote nonstop for up to 14 hours.

Faulkner was a drunk

homer thought that sheep were violet

>>8088181
50? How was he not constantly shitting himself?

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>>8089171
How indeed.

>>8090421
his cock is the earth.

>>8090421
>ugly fatass
dropped it like it's hot.

On his deathbed, Richard Dawkins renounced his lifes work and accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Thomas Pynchon is actually's DFW biological father

>>8090609
>on his deathbed
did he get back up and change his mind?

>>8090626
Yes that is the tragedy of it all. In the end he chose a life of living over a death of godliness.

William S. Burroughs shot his wife in the head and fled to Mexico.
>>8090421
Rodin is based as fuck. Only sculptor worth a damn.

>>8090448
Yeah, it's like he's more... ballsack than man.

>>8090665
nice

Mailer stabbed his wife

Kafka hated the Jews and thought they were part of an international conspiracy involving international bankers to take over the world.

Anon never got published even after his death.

When Stanislaw Lem said Philip K. Dick was the best American SF writer, PKD decided Lem wasn't an actual person but a communist comittee designed to infiltrate America with communist ideals.

>>8086221
What is happening in that picture? Are those girls trying to break their legs?
Nothing on Google.

Shakespeare was actually a black woman

>>8090966

It's some Polish photographer, he does a lot of pictures like these. I can't remember his name, though.

Basically, it's staged.

>>8090966
>>8091005

Yeah, it's a couple Swedish photographers named Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt

Aristotle was Alexander the Great's schoolteacher.

>>8090966
it symbolized the freeing break from the capturing masculinity of the white balcony

>>8088181
It was 50 in demitasse cups so it was more like 12 cups of what we're used to, which is hefty but as a barista I've seen it done by non-Balzacs