/lit/ - Literature

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But Boswell was a faggot though, fuck that self indulgent, coward who could not live in his own shoes.

I would always have respects for Mr Johnson for he took the hard road to self preservation, to be himself above all. Whereas Boswell sought to indulge in his depression and melancholy and he did just that in his journals and essays carried by the Spectator.