I have only one thing to say about Henry Darger: creative genius. His level of creativity was off the charts, to live the life that he did and manage to write a book over 15,000 pages long. Now I do not feel that he was mentally ill. I feel that he just had a very different way of looking at the world and he took events that happened in real life, and changed it into a fictional story and put it into his book. He may have had aspergers though but he was obviously still well enough to live on his own. I also feel that the life he lived and how others treated him affected his writing. Early on in his life I do not feel that he was treated very well because most people thought he had something mentally wrong with him. Though later on in his life most of his neighbors treated him exceptionally well and had nothing bad to say about him. They said he always kept to himself and was always very nice and considerate to everyone.
Though I have already mentioned this, but I feel that Henry had a very different view of the world. By different, I mean he created his own world while living in the real world. He'd use events that have actually happened and would just make an entire life story in a fictional setting out of it. He even made weather forecasting for 10 years in his fictional universe. The time and effort that he put into this is unbelievable. Years of his life spent working on this creative masterpiece. I wish that I could have just a glimpse into his mind and see what was going through Henry's head. To see how he viewed things and how he would change things into a new story, or chapter, or world. I know it may seem weird, learning about somebody who lived a very unusual life and spent his whole life writing a 15,000 page story that will go back as one of the most creative and innovative stories ever written.
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