by technothrasher
1 subcomments
- This 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.
- My 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
by LucifersCat
2 subcomments
- This 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.
by cf100clunk
0 subcomment
- I found the piece quite lovely. Proof that clickbait titles existed long before the Internet.
by pasquinelli
0 subcomment
- here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment
My legacy—What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn...
by 1970-01-01
2 subcomments
- >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
- >"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made"
Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.
Hacker News