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- technothrasherThis reads so much like an urban legend, that I had to poke around a bit. It appears that it was a piece of fiction written by a Williston Fisk for Harper's Weekly in 1898, and has been given various backstories as time went on.
- chasilMy favorite Iranian poet, via an Irishman… XCIX Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits--and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html
- LucifersCatThis were the writing skills of a random dude who was stuck in an asylum. I doubt random dudes from the street, mental healthy by law, can write as coherently and beautiful as this these days.
- cf100clunkI found the piece quite lovely. Proof that clickbait titles existed long before the Internet.
- FpUser>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made"Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.
- pasquinellihere's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentimentMy legacy—What will it be?Flowers in spring,The cuckoo in summer,And the crimson maplesOf autumn...
- 1970-01-01>I, Charles Lounsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory...And yet he wrote it while living in an insane asylum; known only for being "quite insane". The exact opposite of having a sound mind.https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/disposing_mind_and_memory