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The Daily Stoic
The speaker described this collection of essays and journal entries as marvelously vulnerable and raw, highlighting Fitzgerald's struggles with alcoholism and the societal stigma surrounding such issues.
the crack up is uh work of nonfiction and it's basically his collection of essays and journal entries after the books when his life falls apart and it reminds me a bit of sorrow and bliss where you're...
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The speaker described this collection of essays and journal entries as marvelously vulnerable and raw, highlighting Fitzgerald's struggles with alcoholism and the societal stigma surrounding such issues.
the crack up is uh work of nonfiction and it's basically his collection of essays and journal entries after the books when his life falls apart and it reminds me a bit of sorrow and bliss where you're like this person is clearly suffering in his case it's alcoholism and probably some other stuff but you're like this person something is clearly not right with this person and they're being failed by the people around them they're also failing themselves and it's a marvelously vulnerable and raw especially then if you think about how stigmatized that kind of stuff was then you're just watching this guy that one of the most talented greatest people ever yeah just sort of going like why and how did it go down like this