Thread 24855035

Unpopular opinion maybe but in hindsight I think maybe he was less genuinely wise and the like and more just a bitter fuck who hated that maybe somebody somewhere actually believed in some kind of ideals or the like. He legitimately seemed to just violently attack basically anyone who he perceived as being both popular and who didn't conform to his grungy takes on the human condition by basically always claiming they're either stupid and vapid or that they were actively malicious without any room to consider that maybe they just didn't agree with him that everything was a shithole and had always been a shithole without any higher aspirations or beliefs.

He loved Joan of Arc doe

>>24855035 (OP)
You are correct. He spent his life seething and sucking cocks, and died miserable and broken. Now the people for whom he sucked cocks won't let his work be read publicly because it has too much racialized profanity lmao.

>>24855210
Which is bafflingly out of character for him really giving how seethingly assmad he was that anyone would ever think of the medieval period as having any value or that it possessed any admirable societal values or virtues.

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Missouri will do that

>>24855035 (OP)
I feel similarly, I still enjoy his books, I think he had a knack for describing social situations and he was funny, but sometimes he just likes to bash things.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn typifies this imo, I think its (partly) why he wrote it in the first person, so he can directly tell the reader what he thinks as Huck goes around critiquing things. It opens with Huck critiquing religion, doesn't it? he even critiques Tom Sawyer because he's too saccharine and childish, he spends his time getting up to antics and not roaming about doing social criticism. (ie. Twain knew he couldn't match the mirth of that book so he had to write something more "serious")

>>24858383
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furthermore, I would guess there was some extent where he didn't want to be known as some silly children's author, just like he didn't want to be a travel author either, and wanted to have big ideas to pass on so he'd be taken seriously. can't really blame him.
It was the same with his fellow Missourian and near-contemporary, in music, Scott Joplin - Joplin hated the idea of being known for novelty music, he wanted to write operas and the like, serious music - named among Chopin and Schubert, not Barnum and Balily. just Joplin didn't live long enough to fully realize it.