stackyFACTSUsing one pen name is amateur hour. The Portuguese writer created over seventy highly elaborate, entirely separate personas, giving each of them different handwriting, distinct political views, and letting them aggressively argue with each other in print.
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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 Whenever the Italian writer felt mildly depressed about his legacy, he would furiously throw his own unpublished…
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