/lit/ - Literature

ok, same physiognomy.

What do you think about authors and the importance of their being good people in real life?

The older I get, the more I learn about great authors the more I discover and expect some kind of major flaw in their character. Faulkner for example spent much of his adult life LARPing as an injured military veteran, James Joyce was said to be vicious when meeting other writers and convinced of his superiority to them, Robert Frost was apparently a vicious father / husband and LARPed as a humble farmer, Salinger was a manipulative pedo, Cheever bullied his daughter, Edgar Allan Poe was a liar and vicious critic, etc.

Is this just a side-effect of being a human being, or is this sort of negative behaviour more common or exaggerated among writers?

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There are people on lit right now who don't read literature out loud when they can, and take care to crystallize the aural and lingo-muscular sonics internally when they can't.

They don't fondle the language, they don't hold words in their mouth and ear as well as in their mind. For them reading is nothing but a slideshow of images informed by their base visual awareness.