ITT: the most embarrassing things that great authors did.

simone de beauvoir

>>9107308
>vollman_in_drag.jpg

>>9107308
I'd say it was only as embarassing as it was necessary.

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>>9107312
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha . . . Oh poor Steve Buscemi

>>9107308
He made the mistake of giving a fuck.

Didn't Foucault deliberately give people AIDS once he himself had it? That seems genuinely despicable.

>>9107308

I think he was few a decades late in trying to inspire the people to rise up in the way he did. After ww2 the japan were done for as far as a common national identity linked to their past. Literally got bombed into the 20th century.

>>9107308
>Not the most beautiful thing he did

>makes his grandiose speech
>army laughs at him
/ourguy/

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>>9107308

>get big into politics
>kidnap general and inspire army to revolution
>spaghetti falls out of my pocket
>i try to pick it up but it keeps falling out and the army is laughing and i start crying
>cry so hard i get spaghetti diarrhea
>write MAKE JAPAN GREAT AGAIN on the wall with it and go back inside
>commit seppuku
>my second can't even cut my head off
>lie there for an hour while he chops on my neck, some chad has to do it
>second commits seppuku too, chad cuts his head off
>hikikomori as fuck

Gogol threw the second part of his masterpiece into a fire and starved himself to death.

What a faggot.

>>9108234
This.

>>9108279
Have you read what remains of the second part? I ask because it's really bad and Gogol probably did the right thing burning it.

h.p. lovecrafts work where he talks about that cat, i think its the rat story. so cringy

>>9107308
Kafka's porn collection probably

>>9108279

>Not dying prematurely from starving yourself to death due o spiritual convictions

It's like you don't even want to live the literary lifestyle but instead want to remain a pleb forever.

>>9108210
hard to embarrass though

>>9107308
Man. He was doing great for the first five days.

>>9108234

That's a pretty hefty insult anon.

>>9108210
Source?

>>9108259
And the chad lived happily ever after

they were all sodomites

>Norman Mailer once punched Gore Vidal at a party after the writer had given him a bad review. Still on the floor, Vidal declared: "Once again, words fail Norman Mailer."