Is this the most literary facial hair yet discovered?

why this nigga always look like such a badass

He looked best after he went insane

looks like joseph gordon levitt starring in eraserhead

Evil Bob Dylan.

Henrik Ibsen tbqh

Lmao

Useful for cheek-warming in the harsh Norwegian winters

because he was a very fashion-conscious man (described by some contemporaries as a "dandy") who carefully cultivated a poet image

Pound didn't go insane. He followed bad ideas to their logical conclusions. The seeds of old Pound are everywhere in the writings of young Pound. It was a mercy to call him insane and institutionalize him rather than calling him a traitor to his country. But a traitor he was.

>"he is an intellectual 'crackpot' who imagined that he could correct all the economic ills of the world and who resented the fact that ordinary mortals were not sufficiently intelligent to understand his aims and motives."

This from an officer who escorted him to St. Elizabeth's.

This is not a disease of the brain—it is the normal thinking of a man who never once checked his own vanity, nor ever had one democratic thought. He was vain and disgusting as a young man, and an idiot in his old age. Thus it always goes.

superior version

yes

>nor ever had one democratic thought

You say that like it's a flaw, but hey!

Keep thinking the truth can be decided by, or found within, a ballot box.

Are you even trying?

I remember in one of his aphorisms, he basically called facial hair 'lewd', like some sort of erotic/pornographic feature to please women.

Mutton chops must have been the exception.

what do you mean, like he thought facial hair turns women on?

Basically.

There's a painting of him in his younger years where he's clean shaven, so he must have believed it.

>Chapplin

well, this is a thread of sorts I guess

isnt this richard yates

>i can't grow a beard

>tfw the buttplug touches ur prostate jus right

I don't love the man, and I don't care much for his books. But shit, he looked good.

he just looks like a white frederick douglass

welp. can't unsee that.

Long mustache/short beard combo is where it's at