He was borderline agoraphobic as well and goethe had to design a special box for him at the theatre so he couldnt be seen.
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All the great writers were basically low-functioning aspies. Before /r9k/, I guess all you had was the typewriter or the manuscript.
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This is the basic fundamental truth ive always been trying to explain, all the greats were neets and would be diagnosed with autism, add, anxiety, depression, ocd. Just look at samuel johnson. They were all brutal trolls and trolling has driven literature for centuries
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @raceboast and
Alexander Pope... Translates the Iliad (bronze age mindset) then tries to scam ppl selling a half assed odyssey, trolls other writers only to regret it and get death threatspic.twitter.com/gJQ2lCUosW
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Replying to @ProfLP__ @raceboast and
Yes i was just going to mention this too! Fielding’s controversies are amazing too. And Gay’s Beggar’s Opera where he trolled Robert Walpole the prime minister into banning the theatre in london
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K @raceboast and
Even the mathematicians were feral. Wallis had feuds with Roberval, Fermat, Pascal, various other minor figures, and he comes out of all of them looking like a sociopathic liar Oh and Hobbes. and he tried to pick a fight with Descartes after he had been dead 20 yrs
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @KANTBOT20K and
He was an autodidact who made friends with other political/religious extremists and won their respect as a codebreaker in Civil War. Literal weaponized autism
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @KANTBOT20K and
Then he was appointed Savilian Prof at Oxford despite zero training in math. Then he proved pi was transcendental. And he still didn’t understand basic math
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Replying to @jpt401 @KANTBOT20K and
like he thought 1 satisfied the condition x^3 + sum(j+k| j*k=x^3) = y^2 (it doesn’t, 1^3 + (1+1) = 3, which is not a square)
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but more damning he couldn’t understand why anyone would care about diophantine equations or, for that matter, any math concerning natural numbers or any proof of a negative result!
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