>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
