Comments on: Famous folk who killed themselves, vol. 2 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: duke99 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877/comment-page-1#comment-32031 duke99 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:20:15 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877#comment-32031 The crazy down on the street corner talks about nothing as well. That doesn't make him brilliant. Also, just because something is popular and therefore well paid does not mean that it is brilliant. Read the book again, it is just not that good! The crazy down on the street corner talks about nothing as well. That doesn’t make him brilliant. Also, just because something is popular and therefore well paid does not mean that it is brilliant. Read the book again, it is just not that good!

]]> By: kimmiefisch http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877/comment-page-1#comment-32029 kimmiefisch Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:09:22 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877#comment-32029 John Kennedy Toole was quite remarkable for his time. He did what Jerry Seinfeld would become wealthy for, decades later. He wrote about nothing. His contemporaries were writing in a significantly different style. Brilliant indeed. Way to go Ransom! John Kennedy Toole was quite remarkable for his time. He did what Jerry Seinfeld would become wealthy for, decades later. He wrote about nothing. His contemporaries were writing in a significantly different style. Brilliant indeed.

Way to go Ransom!

]]> By: duke99 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877/comment-page-1#comment-31995 duke99 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:04:58 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8877#comment-31995 A Confederacy of Dunces is not a brilliant novel. A Confederacy of Dunces is not a brilliant novel.

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