>watch an interview of an author >discover he has a high-pitched voice and an unpleasant, frail appearance >instantly feel as though his ideas are discredited in my eyes Even realizing this thought process and treating it as a bias to be expunged doesn't help, I always notice myself feeling a subconscious contempt towards ugly authors. On the other hand, I'm immediately relieved if an author I like turns out to be good-looking.
Are we all just slaves to aesthetics and bio-deterministic markers of genetic quality?
No. I mean, Houellebecq looks like a misshapen potato in a wig and he's intellectually interesting - why would you care?
Julian Turner
>Hulahoop is interesting How exactly is he interesting
Aiden Wood
He looked normal before he started killing himself with drugs, drinking, and smoking, it's different.
Oliver Bell
He's very zeitgeist-y, Soumission talks about how Islam is influencing Europe/disillusionment with modern culture from a fairly ambiguous (i.e. non-didactic) viewpoint. Always something to argue about in Houellebecq threads.
Elijah Long
>why would you care?
Did you even read his post?
Lucas Lopez
>how Islam is influencing Europe Shocking revelation.
Does he have anything interesting to say?
Nolan Clark
"YOU'RE A WIZARD HARRY" Hahahaha
Colton Stewart
Seeing Corncob blubbering like a faggot on Oprah nearly made me quit him all together.
Michael Ward
This happened with Nabokov and Capote for me. I had only read In Cold Blood at the time and I thought Capote was some masculine patrician John Grisham who was maybe a closeted gay because of those loving descriptions of Perry. Turns out, superfaggot primus
Matthew Barnes
>listen to interview with Plath >expect soft, sweet voice >instead sounds like an old, upper class southern woman okay
Logan Adams
No, just you.
Isaiah Torres
Nabokov was the opposite for me. Expected a grumpy old man, got a fellow with a sense of humor and a love for art.
Joshua White
Different user: I think so. It's less bitching about Islam (as /pol/tards would have you think), and more about how European culture has become weak from the brand of commonly accepted "progressive" ideologies from the 60s onward ie the sexual revolution created a new kind of isolation
Jacob Jenkins
Nabokov was a cutie. Would be pampered by him/10
Easton Davis
No you're just shallow. Being unable to look past physical appearance to accept or discredit ideas on their own merit is the mark of the weakest of plebs.
Chase Williams
I'm terrible in that I'm more likely to read a female author if she was really hot like Lipsector, Gowdy, Plath.
Happened to me with Ellroy. Are we all secretly fags because we like Veeky Forums? Upon attaining success will we become somehow faggier?
Isaiah Watson
>ywn be famous enough to date Alexandra Kleeman >ywn tune out and gaze deep into her eyes as she prattles on in endless MFA talk while the cold, cold world freezes outside the restaurant windows
Charles Morris
>people judge people based on their appearances whoa... really makes u think
Nicholas Mitchell
It's not really his fault, Oprah is just a boring person who asks trite questions, neither her nor her audience wants McCarthy to do more than "where do ur ideas come from??" type noodling, what can he do?
