If rich you're an eccentric. Your "installations" are praised by the critics.
If poor you're criminally insane.
You are forced to take anti-psychotics, and or put away.
Today Arthur Rimbaud would be a sex offender, and locked up for insanity.
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."
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....or they just ignore you.
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