Submitted by Old_Sport7920 t3_118ohfw in todayilearned
Something tells me he'll just go out naked
As the day he was born.
With his hat on.
Naturally
You ever feel more naked when you only have socks on? Pretty sure only the hat would be like that.
Oh look, there's George, wobbling down to the supermarket. . .
Swinging by the drug store
I find it impossible to believe Hugo - the man so horny they literally had to close the cities brothels when he died because all the workers were at the funeral - did not do this.
The suit stays on during
As his nameday
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Wow seven years ago…
On one hand I feel bad that HBO bungled his ending so badly that he probably feels like he has to make massive changes.
On the other hand, I've basically given up on him finishing before he starts slipping due to old age. At his current pace I simply do not have any confidence the last book will be very good.
Then Brandon Sanderson can come in and finish it
He has already publically said he would not. Their writing styles are too different.
Brandon’s PG-13 limit would not do well with Game of Thrones haha
Jamie giving his dear sister a nice firm handshake.
All the child abuse can stay, though.
If anyone could finish GoT its Joe Abercrombie in my opinion. Although, I'd rather it just stay unfinished.
Stephen King would have it done in a weekend.
It’s such bullshit
I think his legacy is going to be a promising series being bungled lol.
When I read George I first thought of Castanza because he would try something like this to avoid procrastinating.
Uber eats wasn't a thing then
Patrick Rothfuss first, please.
No thanks. Take away Rothfuss’ clothes so he can just stay in his house for good.
Someone else should just a write a book VERY similar to what we think the third installment should be.
Did you hear about Clarkesworld magazine having to disable submissions because they got overrun with ChatGPT-created stories? I wonder if we could “force” it to read the original books and come up with a 3rd that follows the storyline which has been proposed over the years…
Might be an interesting community project.
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Patrick Rothfuss could use this too, I expect.
Do you supply aloe for that burn? Well done:)
God damn, must have been a very slow six months for the local brothels. This guy was a fucking monster class sex machine. When he died escorts and prostitutes came to his funeral. He even slept with his son's wife and his son literally gave the comment that he couldn't blame his wife for it.
imagine how many STDs he had
If he hadn't died from syphilis by then he must have been immune.
Either that, or a Mr Burns style "All the STDs cancel each other out" situation.
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>hunch, back
I see what you did there.
Wtfff
>He even slept with his son's wife and his son literally gave the comment that he couldn't blame his wife for it.
Whaaaaaaaat‽
“I mean, if you knew anything about my father, none of this comes as a surprise. It’s almost expected - so it is what it is. Anyway, here’s my brother-son.”
Thankfully, I don't have enough food to barf up.
And, of course, Adele H. was his daughter.
Gross but fair
This says he tried courting her, then she dated his son for a few months after rejecting him and his poem to her. What is more surprising is that she turned him down.
That dude must have rubbed his dick raw between writing sessions
Literally a f***ing legend
That unironically cannot be real.
I want to say it was Dostoevsky, who would have to gamble and fritter all his money away before he was motivated enough to write another book.
Alexandre Dumas was another big money spender
Back in the day bits of the books were published because it was cheaper and kept the audience captive,like now with comic books.
To pay for his numerous mistresses,Dumas made his books as long as possible :)).
That explains why The Three Musketeers is a slog to read at times.
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TIL: I need to be more self-destructive if I’m going to succeed as a writer.
Never underestimate how many writers were under the influence of alcohol/drugs.
Douglas Adams would get locked up in a Hotel room by his Publisher.
Somebody (maybe Douglas himself, can't remember) wrote a mock-up on how the telephone conversation with the publisher was, pov publisher:
"Hi Douglas, you know deadline is in tow weeks, how is progress?"
"What does "doing my best" means?"
"Douglas, how many pages have you written?"
"Great, I will send a courier immediately to pick that ONE PAGE"
Sounds like an old Bob Newhart joke
Hijacking the comment, anyone know a good Dosto biography thats not Joseph Frank's? it's prohibitively expensive here
at like 900 something pages, i feel like he could’ve stopped a bit earlier.
He couldn't find the key to unlock his clothes
Hunchback is not that long. Are you thinking of Les Misérables?
Hunchback isn’t that long but you’re not wrong that he probably could’ve done without some of the bird’s eye view of Paris parts
He could've cut out the 200 pages about the Napoleonic War.
That was Les Misérables, not Hunchback.
Well you see I'm an illiterate moron who can't read titles of posts
on hindsight, i think i titled this pretty badly lol, i would edit it to be “forced him to finish writing the book” instead of “forced him to do anything but finish writing the book”, sorry. unfortunately reddit doesnt allow us to change the title
You just goofed the word "anything", should have used "nothing".
>...forced him to do nothing but finish writing the book
But I think we all figured it out
I noticed that but knew what you meant. Don’t worry, most people will get it.
They will, but this being Reddit I feel like without OP's early comment, we'd still have a comments section filled with titlegore comments.
Maybe. Doesn’t really matter tho. Those who get it, get it. Those who don’t, don’t. Those who title gore have tiny pee pees.
Do you have any sources on this other than the article linked? I couldn’t find anything on this doing a cursory google search in french. It is widely known he wrote it in a short amount of time due to his work on “Le dernier jour d’un condamné” and “Les orientales”. I just think it’s a great bit of trivia on Hugo, but would hate to disseminate something that I have found no real evidence of. I’ll keep looking though! I think I will hit my library for a good bio on Hugo in French.
Don't backpedal. Good post
So he did anything but finish the book?
This saying gets butchered so much. 😣
I love the irony of posting on a great author and absolutely destroying the sentence structure of the title.
Back then you procrastinated by going outside lol.
I don’t know how much use locking yourself indoors for months would have for your productivity today, especially for someone prone to procrastination
From other posts here "procrastinate" seems to just mean going to the brothel.
Being naked does not seem like an effective way to stop going to the brothel.
Yeah it's weird. I voluntarily procrastrinated by staying at home for months on end during the first parts of covid.
But then again Victor Hugo didn't have Reddit and a PS5.
This book sparked interest in Notre Dame cathedral (which was in a state of disrepair and sleezy) and eventually a major renovation started which made it into the world-renowned and beloved cathedral it was before the 🔥 fire.
Stop him from his whoring probably
We talk about ADHD and Autism and such being "new". But then you hear about a guy who was so worried about needing six months to write 900 pages that he locked himself in his house.
And you realise these have been around for millennia.
I just got diagnosed at 36 and asked my parents if any teachers said anything or if they ever thought about it and my mom's response was essentially no and that "everyone had it back then" 🙄
I've yet to figure out the way to explain this to them. That just because we finally find a name and treatment plan for something, doesn't mean that it hasn't been there affecting people who have no idea... Or just that these things exist whether or not we have a name for them yet. The idea is on my head and makes sense, I just can't put it into the right words.
When ADHD first started being diagnosed, there was certainly a lot of noise in the US about overmedication of it, and how virtually any child who was underachieving in school was being prescribed ritalin. Even some parents chasing down doctors to demand access to it in order to calm down their child.
Whether this was a thing, I don't know. I was young and I live in a different country :D
It may simply have been that there was such a sharp increase in ADD/ADHD diagnoses that there was a typical moral panic/media freakout about it.
"Neurodivergent" and "Neurotypical" are the current ways we use to describe these conditions, and I think that helps people understand the nature of it better. With these words it's clear you're not saying that someone's brain is broken, or that they have a transient illness. They have a fundamental difference in wiring which has always existed, always will exist, and causes them to perceive the world in a different way to most others.
I don't know how old you are or anything, but when I was a kid, everyone did have it. In elementary school, only 4 of the boys in our class were unmedicated for an attention problem.
If you're diagnosing almost all of your population with a mental disorder, you need to reevaluate your diagnostic criteria.
Eh, there's literally no law of nature that says that an organism has to be ideally suited to a given environment. If 90% of the population was going on insane murder sprees, and putting a fairly-innocuous chemical in the water supply would stop that, would you want people reevaluating their diagnostic criteria, or just conceding that the species is fucked up and needs some chemical intervention?
Drugs have side effects and putting children on amphetamines is serious business. If it's necessary to get them the start they need in life, that's one thing. But you don't do it just to make the faculty's life easier.
I'm turning 40 this year so it was the 80s/90s. It wasn't really prevalent in my school or they just kept it more secret. I didn't know any peers that were on medication for it.
My mom's friend was a teacher and her son that I babysat has ADHD and took meds but that's really the extent. I worked at a daycare and didn't have to provide or monitor meds, no parents clued me in that their kid had anything other than allergies.
I just know that yes, the diagnostic criteria wasn't great. It's been documented that it presents differently in females so the rate of adult diagnosis is much higher bc it was missed so much when we were kids. It's not just hyperactivity and not everyone's "flavor" as I call it includes every symptom. I got decent grades bc my anxiety over consequences forced me to find coping skills to make sure I got it done. It didn't always work and I'd just completely forget about an assignment. I also only finished 1 book reading assignment ever. Studying for tests was just memorizing information to pass the test. The deadline motivation 👋✅, distractibility ✅, communication problems (interrupting, tangents on tangents, forgetting halfway through a thought) ✅, can't focus vs hyperfocus ✅... basically once I learned the typical symptoms it was very clear to me they'd been there all along and I feel cheated a bit that I had to go through so much and struggle when it wasn't necessary.
Fair enough. This was the early 2000s for me. I was referred because I got distracted and started talking to my classmates after being in class for ~2.5 hours or so.
Like, duh, I was 7.
Right? There's definitely kids being kids and then there's kids like me who grow up not knowing how to set boundaries, becoming a people pleaser to the extent that I have trouble making decisions without input from others, and I'm pretty sure I've been anxious since my first spanking. I am working on my conflict avoidance and being assertive.
I also started learning that most of my anxiety and depression triggers are directly linked to my ADHD behaviors/symptoms. So even the counselor I started seeing for those almost 10 yrs ago missed all the signs. It took going through a communications worksheet with our premarital counselor who specializes and has it himself to suggest I get evaluated. I always thought I maybe had a twinge just being so talkative and forgetful but the more I've learned... it's been right there front and center my whole life. And I was a child so I didn't have the words to explain how I felt or understand that what I was dealing with wasn't "just me". I'm not lazy like my mom said, I'm not broken or deficient... my husband has described it best, he said it's like being left handed in a right handed world. I just have to learn to do the differently in a way that works WITH my brain and not fight against it so much.
I'm sorry you went through that accusation as a child, it couldn't have been fun and if it had been me, I'd have taken it very personally even at 7. At least someone cared enough to at least suggest you get checked just in case though. Grass is always greener as they say.
Eh. When I was in elementary school, literally one kid was being medicated for. Dude was my best friend at the time.
I don't have kids myself. I think (and hope) that it isn't that bad anymore. They basically expected young children to sit attentively in class for several hours at a time, I really don't know what they were thinking.
Who says these things are new? It’s more like they were discovered more recently and being diagnosed more often.
There's a swath of people who want to believe that these things never happened before, and that the new influx of conditions is due to "modern society" brainwashing people to take drugs for (insert random conspiracy theory here).
...for money. No need to go there.
Nah. These conspiracies always go "there."
I've always thought that the mythological/folklore concept of changelings fit the onset of more intense expressions of autism.
Google Leonardo DaVinci's work habits! I saw a video about them and I was like, "that sounds like ADHD."
"He did nothing but write for six months and only finished one book?"
-- Brandon Sanderson, probably
This sentence is awful and nearly incomprehensible. I understood your intent after reading it three times but by then I was just frustrated with your post.
Have a sit down.
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Cool bruh. Hope you can figure it out.
>This sentence is awful
What about it is awful?
>and nearly incomprehensible.
I don't see what is incomprehensible about it.
I personally would have added one more comma, or split it into multiple sentences.
The title suggests that because he didn’t have his clothes he wasn’t able to write his book because he was doing everything else. The word but should be in the title.
>The title suggests that because he didn’t have his clothes he wasn’t able to write his book
That's not right. The title saying "to finish his book he locked his cloths away".
> The word but should be in the title.
Where would you put it?
That was a typo I meant to say shouldn’t be in the title.
I understand the thought of putting away his clothes so he couldn’t leave and then would be forced to finished the book.
But the title says it, “forced him to do anything, but finish his book”
That reads as if he didn’t finish the book.
>That was a typo I meant to say shouldn’t be in the title.
Oh, yeah you're right. I see it now. my mind must have jumped over that word.
Good luck buddy. I have a feeling you're very proud of that confusing sentence.
You can't even answer a simple question?
>Good luck buddy. I have a feeling you're very proud of that confusing sentence.
I did not write it.
Here I am sitting naked on REDDIT. We are not the same………
The ending makes a lot more sense now
How does it end?
The story stops.
Did Quasimodo have no clothes and was therefore stuck in his house for the rest of his life?
"... yadda yadda yadda, everyone dies or gets married"
"You can't yadda yadda literature!"
Esmirelda gets hanged and then it is described that in her tomb are two skeletons. One of her and the other deformed, implying that Q crawled in there and hugged her corpse until he just died too.
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Just pages and pages of
> All work and no play makes Jaques a dull boy
It should be noted that he loved loitering outside and taking notes about what he saw.
Someone contact George R Martins publicist!
I read this as "making him unable to go outside and procreate"
Wouldn’t it be “forced him him to do *nothing but finish writing his book”? Honest question, feel like I’m losing it, lol
I offer up Patrick Rothfuss to try this out for us
Or grrm.
GRRM is STILL not your bitch. 🤣 https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html
My first thought.
Insert name of author here... 🤣 https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html
I'd happily give my $10 for a verbal 10 minute ending. Or a fan fiction ending. Really I'm just that ex that keeps coming back for closure.
Oh believe me, I'd love to have more books. But I also know that writing them it's just a matter of sitting down and typing it up. A lot of folks see it as just another "punch in, do your daily work, punch out" kind of job. Some authors can do that. Most don't.
Now, I don't really expect to rival the madlad, but I could definitely learn a thing or two from him
What about food and water?
Lucky for him that Reddit did not exist at the time.
That guy should've been evaluated for ADHD
it's a good fkn book!
Ah yes, being forced to do anything but finish his book....forced him to finish his book.
As a recent PhD grad, I feel this.
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Go outside and procrastinate?
So work from home IS effective....
That's right, kids! "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was written by an old man who was butt naked the hole whole time!
6 months doesnt sound like impossible deadline tbh.
Haha! Sometimes u gotta outsmart urself!! 👍
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You should shower and change your clothes
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TIL the original Hunchback of Notre Dame is full of smegma.
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I'm waiting on your novel. You have 6 months
Do you lock your clothes away so you can't leave the house so you're forced to work from home?
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Someone send this to George rr Martin