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BTW - other than Ben Franklin, who are the most notable survivors of poster's madness? Hillel and Shammai?
Gabriele D'Annunzio survived the most severe case ever reported.
Oscar Wilde survived poster's madness; his troubles came elsewhere.
Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Publicly fantasizing about the people who have slighted you suffering in hell is the most relatable thing about Dante, tbh
Absolutely.
Walt Whitman?
I'm thinking Hildegard von Bingen.
I'm thinking if she knew her shit was going to survive she would have hired an editor.
Good question, I don't know enough to say. Did he write AT other people, or was he just extremely prolific?
He absolutely wrote at people. And considered what he was writing hugely important, and many other people to be idiots. And/or police spies, which they sometimes were.
Definite madness, then. The question becomes: did he make a full recovery?
Ah, right! We still read him, despite everything. So, in that sense yes?
I think it's like "did Poasting ruin his life?"
Walter Winchell. he would have been a Twitter fanatic if he'd been born in the right era.
~Chara
He definitely had poster's madness, but I think he also may have succumbed to it when he went all in with Joe McCarthy. The era of calling the Nazis a bunch of prancing gay dudes was pure posting though.
yeah I wasn't sure you could say Winchell "survived". he made a career of it for a while anyway!
