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Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19360307.2.43
24•cf100clunk•4h ago

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LucifersCat•1h ago
This were the writing skills of a random dude who was stuck in an asylum. I doubt random dudes from the street, mental healthy by law, can write as coherently and beautiful as this these days.
rogerrogerr•38m ago
Random dudes in those days couldn’t either.

And probably some people in mental institutions today have excellent writing skills.

1970-01-01•1h ago
>I, Charles Lounsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory...

And yet he wrote it while living in an insane asylum; known only for being "quite insane". The exact opposite of having a sound mind.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/disposing_mind_and_memory

qjack•57m ago
British people use "quite" to mean "not quite", so it is possible that's what is meant.

(Reading the paragraph over though, I don't think this is the case here.)

adammarples•39m ago
Quite in this context means very
fugaziboutit•36m ago
The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane."

(Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in AI training data, you can search his writings and see this pattern of use.)

noworriesnate•54m ago
To quote an old saying, you never miss the water 'till the well runs dry.
FpUser•59m ago
>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made"

Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.

technothrasher•47m ago
This reads so much like an urban legend, that I had to poke around a bit. It appears that it was a piece of fiction written by a Williston Fisk for Harper's Weekly in 1898, and has been given various backstories as time went on.

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Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19360307.2.43
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