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/lit/, what author would you say had/has the most interesting life?
The most fucked up?

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>> No.2292476

Hunter S Thompson from ones I can think of off the top of my head. It's insane what that guy managed to get away with.

>> No.2292479

>>2292474
>the most interesting life?
Hemmingway, perhaps.

>The most fucked up?
Burroughs, perhaps.

>> No.2292484

>>2292476
he's actually boring and dumb

>> No.2292487

>interesting
tie between Hemingway and Thompson

>fucked up
de Sade

>> No.2292490

>>2292484
>stoplikingwhatidontlike

>> No.2292528

Yukio Mishima did some fuckin' seppuku shit

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Hemingway. Hell the Dos Equis "most interesting man in the world" character was inspired by Hemingway.

>> No.2292549

Aleister Crowley.

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Byron?

>> No.2293676

>interesting
Ian Fleming, F. Scott Fitzgerald,

>fucked-up (in a hilarious way)
Wilmot, Rabelais

>fucked-up (in a sad way)
Burroughs

>> No.2293714

Malraux

>> No.2293720

Dostoyevsky had an interesting life

>> No.2293728

Orwell maybe? He was one badass motherfucker in the Spanish Civil War at least.

>> No.2293733

Didn't Burroughs kill his wife. For that matter why did he have a wife, being that he was clearly gay?