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How did an 18-year-old Mary Shelley initially get the terrifying inspiration to write the sci-fi masterpiece Frankenstein?
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The ultimate form of impulsive self-sabotage. Whenever the Italian writer felt mildly depressed about his legacy, he would furiously throw his own unpublished…
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Avoiding visual distractions is one thing, but literally blinding yourself is a massive overreaction. According to ancient biographers, the philosopher…
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The man whose name literally defines bureaucratic nightmares thought he was writing hilarious comedy. He would read his deeply depressing, deeply alienating…
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Genius often flirts with absolute absurdity. Kurt Godel reshaped the foundations of mathematical logic, but his brilliant mind eventually turned entirely…
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Centuries before rockets, this eccentric Frenchman decided he knew exactly how space travel would work. He wrote a fully earnest manuscript detailing how to…
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