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		NoiseBert69 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult bi... Sitting in front of a computer all day long isn't healthy either.

tinkelenberg 5 months ago [–]

Definitely not. That said, sitting in front of a typewriter was probably the healthiest thing some of these people did.

Writing is an isolating profession, and its demons compound when you introduce other vices.

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