H.L. Mencken is still so criminally underrated
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I think I've read like 90% of everything ever written by him at this point
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His "Days" series is one of the funniest things I've ever read
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Thinking about the story where he went on a North Sea Danish (neutral) cruise in 1916 and all the different ethnicities in Europe were on it during the midst of World War 1 and he learned that Europeans all hated each other a lot more than he realized
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He mentioned how the Englishmen were more comfortable hanging around the Germans than the Scots and how the French abhorred the Italians more than anyone Then the band on board which was Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish all got in a fistfight while they were playing one night
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Also thinking about how he was the first newspapermen to get the scoop on the Battle of Tsushima in the Rus-Japan War because he completely guessed how the battle would go before he got any news
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You people need to read his stuff https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken …
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oh no, Mencken predicted how a battle would go, this is FRAGILE
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