Gotta Love Those Eccentrics & Weirdos

Mar 25, 2008 21:36

From the recently published book Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights...
  • Louisa May Alcott was addicted to opium.
  • Lord Byron collected the pubic hair of his female conquests.
  • Henry David Thoreau invented raisin bread.
  • Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde made out.
  • Gertrude Stein called orgasms "cows."
  • Franz Kafka went to nudist spas.
  • Jack London hated Asians.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald had a foot fetish.
  • J.D. Salinger drank his own urine.
Source: Radar Magazine

Ok, WTF Salinger?!

random babble

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