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<hijacking thread to discuss Rimbaud with Abdo>
he really seems like one intrigueing guy, hey? A teenage, bisexual, drug using, heathen genius with a male partner ten years older than him and MARRIED. fascinating ****. I would love to just read about his life, let alone his poetry.

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Originally posted by fayefaye
<hijacking thread to discuss Rimbaud with Abdo>
he really seems like one intrigueing guy, hey? A teenage, bisexual, drug using, heathen genius with a male partner ten years older than him and MARRIED. fascinating ****. I would love to just read about his life, let alone his poetry.

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That's kind of a problem to me: I'm sure I'd read all his works voraciously just because his personal life is so interesting, and I don't find it right to be fascinated of someone's work just because of how transgressive (???) his life was... This is why I'm not much into Rimbaud, I just read something not too deeply...I know I'd be influenced in thinking it's cool just because he had a cool life... But I guess that's just me.

You'd rather he lived a boring life like T. S. Eliot? You want verbal masturbation?

Here's Rimbaud's contribution to verbal masturbation: He wrote the first free-verse poetry. 'Une Saison en Enfer' appeared fifteen years before Mallarmé's 'Un Coup de Dés' (which is usually credited for it). But the thing I like about Rimbaud's poetry more than anything is that it doesn't come off as 'scholarly' or 'bookish', though, he was very well-read in most areas. Plus, he had a wicked sense of humor, in his life and his art. He let his actions inspire his poetry, which is one of those historic anamolies in [*poetry].

What's even more, he quit after five years and fled to Africa.

Edited for OOPSYYYYY.

<hijacking this thread to sing christmas carols to myself>

Jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way

Oh what fun
It is to ride
In a one horse open slay
HAY!


Oh holy night
The stars are brightly
SHIIIIIIIIINING

It is the night
Of our dear saviors
Birth

We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts, we travel afar
Westward Leading
Still proceeding
la la la la la la star

Ok thats getting old now.
done

LOL@kik. Delightful. you're a great singer.

I can't believe Rimbaud quit writing at 19. I mean, what a waste. I probably am inclined to think it's cool just because he had such an interesting life, but at the same time, I also feel inclined to read into it in more depth because of that. yeah, I like the way he writes without any pretension too. Is it just me, or do most people in his life come across as absolute ****s?

Read Rimbaud by Graham Robb, it's the most critically acclaimed work of Rimbaldian scholarship.

It'll blow the socks through your shoes.

Blow 'em right the **** through.

And if I don't wear socks?

*sternly gazes at Abdo Rinbo*

There could be children reading this.

*laughs at his own hipocracy*

*wonders whether anyone under 13 is reading this*