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diff --git a/bookmarks/the naked truth authors who write in the buff..txt b/bookmarks/the naked truth authors who write in the buff..txt deleted file mode 100755 index d90b045..0000000 --- a/bookmarks/the naked truth authors who write in the buff..txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff. -date: 2007-02-10T01:06:04Z -source: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/ -tags: authors, humor - ---- - -Writing takes a lot of focus - here are a few authors who got rid of all sorts of distractions, including their clothes, while writing: - -![][1] - -When **[Victor Hugo**][2] [wiki], the famous author of great tomes such as Les Misérables and _The Hunchback of Notre-Dame_, ran into a writer's block, he concocted a [unique scheme][3] to force himself to write: he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he'd have nothing to do but sit down and write. - -![][4] -**[Ernest Hemingway**][5] [wiki] did not only write _A Farewell to Arms_, he also said farewell to clothes! The [inside dirt][6] is that Hemingway wrote nude, standing up, with his typewriter about waist level. Indeed, there might be a nudist streak in the Hemingway genes: Ernest's cousin Edward Hemingway opened Britain's oldest nudist colony, a nine-bedroom chateau called [Metherell Towers][7], back in the 1930s! - -![][8] -Perhaps it's not so surprising that **[D.H. Lawrence**][9] [wiki], who wrote the controversial (and censored) erotic book _Lady Chatterley's Lover_, liked to climb mulberry trees, in the nude, before coming down to write. - -![][10] -**[James Whitcomb Riley][11]** [wiki], America's "Hoosier Poet," had his friends lock him up in a hotel room to write, naked, so he wouldn't be tempted to go down to the bar for a drink. - -![][12] -French poet and author **[Edmond Rostand**][13] [wiki], who is best known for his play _Cyrano de Bergerac_, was so sick of being interrupted by his friends that he took up working naked in his bathtub. - -![][14] -Apparently Rostand wasn't the only one with this bright idea - **[Benjamin Franklin][15]** [wiki] also liked to take baths. In fact, he liked to take "[air baths][16]," where he sit around naked in a cold room for an hour or so while he wrote. - -![][17] - -Mystery writer **[Agatha Christie**][18] [wiki], whose books have been translated in 40 languages and outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, liked to write anywhere, including in [the bathtub][19]! - -Sources: [A Blank Page][20] by Sam Elmore, [In The Nude][21] by So Many Books, [Literary Life and Other Curiosities][22] by Robert Hendrickson, [Dressing to Write][23] by Bibi's Beat. - -[1]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/victor-hugo.jpg -[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo -[3]: http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=18814 -[4]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/ernest-hemingway.jpg -[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway -[6]: http://www.jonathanames.com/blog/archive/literary/2004_05_16_archive.html -[7]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2004/05/01/prnude01.xml -[8]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/dh-lawrence.jpg -[9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence -[10]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/james-whitcomb-riley.jpg -[11]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitcomb_Riley -[12]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/edmond-rostand.jpg -[13]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand -[14]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/benjamin-franklin.jpg -[15]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin -[16]: http://www.benfranklin300.com/etc_trivia.htm#o -[17]: http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-01/agatha-christie.jpg -[18]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie -[19]: http://www.poirot.us/plife.html -[20]: http://getthenews.net/Sam/ablankpage.htm -[21]: http://somanybooks.blogspot.com/2004/03/in-nude.html -[22]: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2UXQ3AXRT2&isbn=0156527871&itm=2 -[23]: http://vickistclair.blogspot.com/2006/11/dressing-to-write.html |