Who is the best author who killed himself who isn't Hemingway or DFW?
>>8134337
I you mean "best" in an objective literary sense, Virginia Woolf.
She suffered bouts of depression and during a particularly overwhelming one she put on a coat, filled it's pockets with stones, and walked into a river, drowning herself.
>>8134337
yesenin and mayakovsky
>>8134337
Pavese
>>8134360
wait, i didn't know this
i am having a minor and weird version of existential crisis right now, i mean i don't question what is usually questioned during those but i question if this fact even existed yesterday because reading some of her books i had to know it instead of randomly reading on some internet forum in a shitposting thread... i likely misuse the term too
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suicide was all he had.
: - )
Virginia Woolf.
>>8134337
John Kennedy Toole
>>8135085
>Virginia Woolf
>himself
I'm pretty sure Woolf was a chick.
>>8134446
I think knowing a fact but not knowing how you know that fact or whether it is in fact, a fact, and then relearning that fact for what feels like the first time but in actuality is the second time is considered a deja vu.
>>8134337
Hart Crane was an American poet who jumped to his death from a ship after being beaten for making sexual advances toward a male crew member. He was never seen again.
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>>8135167
>closet homo who lifted weights to hide his homosexuality
>whined like a bitch when emperor of japan acknowledged that he wasn't a living god
>attempted a military coup only to be mocked during his speech to the troops
>failed even at committing suicide when it took his friend several attempts to remove his head
sounds like a pretty cool dude.
>>8135161
>jumped to his death
They threw that faggot overboard. And rightly so.
>>8134337
Sadegh Hedayat?
>>8135216
That was a straight up Mossad hit senpai.
>>8135218
Huh. I was informed that it was suicide. Alright then.
