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What are some writers who were reclusive loners? So far, I've come up with Emily Bronte, Nietzsche, and Emily Dickinson.
>inb4 "the author of my diary desu"

>> No.20215032

Thomas Ligotti, H. P. Lovecraft as several points of his life

>> No.20215054

>>20214998
None of them were loners. Nietzsche had a breakdown after his philosophy failed him.
>intervene when he sees a cabby whipping his horse
>gets ass beat
>"That's what Might makes right feels like? Never again!"
>hugs horse
>retire as vegetable
Brontë had Autism and Dickinson was a slut.

>> No.20215062

>>20215054
>Dickinson was a slut.
Slander

>> No.20215067

>>20214998
Whitman had a pretty isolated life.

>> No.20215111

>>20215054
An autistic couldn’t have written Wuthering Heights

>> No.20215129

>>20215111
Ever heard of Gondal, her paracosm? Heathcliff is a composite character of men she saw on the moors and her father/brother. She definitely had Autism. They probably all did.

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>>20214998
Kafka

>> No.20215147

>>20214998
pynchon
thoreau
me

>> No.20215152

>>20214998
me

>> No.20215156

>>20214998
Pessoa
Ur mom

>> No.20215181

>>20214998
wasn't Thoreau and Emerson loners or am I thinking of someone else? I know Kant kind of was.

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Muir

>> No.20215657

>>20215181
Thoreau was a loner, but Emerson was extroverted and sociable

>> No.20215687

Edward Abbey

>> No.20215709

Yasunari Kawabata, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, Hermann Hesse, David Sedaris

Great thread!

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>>20214998
Hermann Hesse was a big fan of solitude. Although he had his mandatory slate of human interactions, he felt most himself and freest when alone. Indeed he glorified it as the path to self-transcendence and ultimate liberation from the shackles of the material world. Indeed he wrote an essay singing the praises of solitude.

> My dear friends, let me sing you the song of solitude. Without solitude there is no suffering, without solitude there is no heroism. But the solitude I have in mind is not the solitude of the blithe poets or of the theater, where the fountain bubbles so sweetly at the mouth of the hermit’s cave. From childhood to manhood is only one step, one single step. In taking that step you break away from father and mother, you become yourself; it is a step into solitude. No one takes it completely. Even the holiest hermit, the grumpiest old bear in the bleakest of mountains, takes with him, or draws after him, a thread that binds him to his father and mother, to the loving warmth of kinship and friendship.

>We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

>> No.20215727

>>20214998
Schopenhauer, Jung, and Freud.
Also, I recommend the book Solitude: A Return To The Self by Anthony Storr which is about the role of solitude in the lives of great thinkers.

>> No.20215802

>>20215067
>Whitman had a pretty isolated life.
How so?

>> No.20215859

>>20215711
Here's a link to the essay btw. Worth a read. He uses this beautiful "ice" metaphor to describe it.

>he air around him smells of stars, of cold stellar spaces;
> Zarathustra has something of this starry smell, this forbidding coldness.
> I should gladly sing you a song of the icy raptures of cosmic space.

https://www.anthologiablog.com/post/hermann-hesse-the-path-of-solitude

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>>20215181
>Kant
No way, he was a fucking normie who hosted dinner parties all the time. I really think that this type of sociable character harms the universality of his philosophy because he was so immersed in the particular culture of his time. Only the solitary are able to grasp things in themselves whilst the normie is forever trapped in the world of appearences.

>> No.20217144

>>20215054
>Dickinson was a slut.
God, I wish

>> No.20217554

>>20214998
The Portuguese guy