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jlgreco
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Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours o...
That may very well be the case, but there certainly have been some high profile exceptions. Howard Hughes anyone?
dmix
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Nietzsche, Robert Schumann (composer) and Tesla are also notable.
If we factor in brilliant writers who shot themselves. Well, that list is quite long.
jlgreco
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John Nash too. Not sure how he slipped my mind.
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Dylan Thomas hypothesis?
tsotha
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Hughes was pretty normal until his later years. That may have been garden-variety senility.
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