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Why are drugs such a reoccurring theme for most authors?

Including, coffee, cigs and alcohol

>> No.16731931
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>>16731914
Chad Bukowski

>> No.16731954

Drugs are a recurring theme for most people

>> No.16731968

>>16731914
Id assume its in part because writing is a particularly inactive activity physically. So people tend to experiement or use a lot of stuff that they can do while idle.

>> No.16731978

>>16731914
There hasn't been a good Western author in the last 70 years.

>> No.16731993

>>16731914
it's cool and most illicit drugs warp your perception so much you can finally find a new feeling or concept to describe in a world that's run out of possible classic naratives. hence the postmodernist phenomenas like burroughs

>> No.16732024
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>>16731978
Ahem

>> No.16732652

>>16731914
>CIA monitored him
>seen that he was just a drunkard
>stopped monitoring him

What did they mean by this? i feel like drugs and alcohol are probably being pushed by (((them))), probably to destroy our brains and souls

>> No.16732724

>>16732652
He's clearly just a drunk poet, wtf were they thinking tapping him

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>>16732024
>BUUUURPPPPPPP

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>>16731914
they expand your creativity and can often serve as inspiration

>> No.16732842

Mods please delete Bukowski spam.

>> No.16732869

Authors are miserable people. They need to drown their anguish into something. Also, Bukowski is the most pretentious writer I've ever read.

>> No.16732873

>>16732869
>pretentious
He's literally mot pretentious whatsoever

>> No.16732885

>>16732828
this is the only full-body picture i've ever seen of him so i just assumed he was a manlet, was very surprised to learn that he was like 6' and that broad is just a monster

>> No.16733785

>>16732885
Look at the heels she's wearing, dude. They've gotta be at least 5 inches or something retarded like that.

>> No.16733888

>>16732724
actually i got it wrong it was the fbi not the cia

>> No.16733962

>>16733785
doesn't change the fact the she's a monster

>> No.16734338

>>16731914
they're miserable out of shape losers. so drugs appeal directly to them.

>> No.16734483
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>drugs are fun
>they took drugs
>drugs broaden your experience, which allows you to write something interesting
>DUDE

>> No.16734502

>>16734483
What possible argument could you have against psychedelics though? I think drugs can provide you with great meaningful experiences. Psychs like LSD and shrooms have no downsides unless you're mentally ill or take too huge a dose unprepared.

>> No.16734515

>>16734502
Oh I just said DUDE because I have brain damage from this website. I like weed.

>> No.16735627

>>16733888
The point still stands