I thought this article trying to suss out the cause of Walt Whitman's death was darkly funny, especially when the guys started mixing up the bacteria-orgy which Whitman considered a beverage to try it for themselves.
Sort of a new genre there and potential for a new show, poetry Jackass.
Up next week: the guys try to out-drink Dylan Thomas and avoid acute hepatitis on an historically accurate reading tour.
And I would have guessed long-entrenched syphilis had something to do with Walt's death. Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be associated with syphilis.
Here's another interesting article about poets and suicide which should surprise absolutely no one. Poets who use the first person pronouns more in their poems (narcissistic poets?) are more likely to kill themselves. So too much self-absorption can lead to the ultimate self-absorption?
Sort of a new genre there and potential for a new show, poetry Jackass.
Up next week: the guys try to out-drink Dylan Thomas and avoid acute hepatitis on an historically accurate reading tour.
And I would have guessed long-entrenched syphilis had something to do with Walt's death. Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be associated with syphilis.
Here's another interesting article about poets and suicide which should surprise absolutely no one. Poets who use the first person pronouns more in their poems (narcissistic poets?) are more likely to kill themselves. So too much self-absorption can lead to the ultimate self-absorption?
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