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Don’t ask how Poe wrote anything (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The answer is Syphilis

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Victorian's came up with "Too beautiful to die", "Life from other pieces", and "Death ages a picture, but the model lives" - the entire periods fiction becomes about survival as a fun treat like being fabulously wealthy is to generations after Boomers.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

a fun treat like being financially solvent is to generations after Boomers.

FTFY