alt Hacker NewsThis 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.
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aidenn0 • yesterday at 10:55 PM
Earliest I could find was this, which appears to me to be clearly fiction, and certainly doesn't use the framing device of an asylum inmate: https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-weekly_1898-09-03_42...
Random dudes in those days couldn’t either.
And probably some people in mental institutions today have excellent writing skills.