What does it mean to "achieve cult status"? to be "mythical"? who else can you think of who could have these descriptions applied to him or her? who else can you think of who fits the description of "dying young after producing works of genius"?

Achieve cult status" essentially mean a person makes many fans because of their trustworthy and piety personality. Cult, is a short term for Culture, and cult fundamentally means adored, and getting a cult status means your being adored by fans. Mythical means, if you hear about a famous person, you hear about how he is very daring, brave but then you unexpectedly hear somewhat from his or her work that sounds the contradictory of what you used to hear

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now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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