Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

LucifersCat

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.

1970-01-01

>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

FpUser

>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made" Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.

technothrasher

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.

pasquinelli

here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment My legacy—What will it be? Flowers in spring, The cuckoo in summer, And the crimson maples Of autumn...

chasil

My favorite Iranian poet, via an Irishman… XCIX Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits--and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html