Stop making things up.

I just stumbled upon a comment in which someone said that "Vladimir Nabokov did not own more than 100 items, and he was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century."<br><br>The truth is, Vladimir Nabokov was not a minimalist and his home did not have "just 100 items" in it. He was actually a great admirer of finery and expensive articles of clothing. He loved watches, good suits, and luxury. He also owned a lot of stuff related to his hobbies (butterfly catching being his main one), and he loved to have a lot of great art and literature around him, and to travel. He married a rich woman (Vera Slonim), and the couple was also friends with a lot of other rich people, like Edmund Wilson. And yes, he was an academic at Cornell and then Harvard for most of his life, so he also had a pretty good salary, and he could afford to have a lot of possessions, as most academics do.<br><br>I cannot stand this new tendency of trying to see historical figures as minimalists, simply to try to justify this new fad that has taken over the internet. We should really respect the personalities and the character of historical figures, and not try to turn them into what we want them to be. I mean, I understand that minimalism can be a wonderful philosophy of life, but we cannot just go about making things up.