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Good authors write good literature. An adult should not look for more in a writer. Give me Celine, Houellebecq and Naipaul one million times before the well-behaved, PC, generic , boring writer who tend to populate current prizes and recommended lists.
Is it too much to ask that a writer respect women?
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One that becomes clear is that V. S. Naipaul is probably the least sympathetic literary figure ever.
Good authors write good literature. An adult should not look for more in a writer. Give me Celine, Houellebecq and Naipaul one million times before the well-behaved, PC, generic , boring writer who tend to populate current prizes and recommended lists.
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What did Salinger do?
Salinger became a recluse, more or less, because he hated the publicity and attention that came with his literary success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger
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Good authors write good literature. An adult should not look for more in a writer. Give me Celine, Houellebecq and Naipaul one million times before the well-behaved, PC, generic , boring writer who tend to populate current prizes and recommended lists.
Is “well-behaved, PC, generic, and boring” really the central alternative to “entirely unsympathetic”?
Especially since if you start blocking out the unsympathetic artists early in their career due to being jerks and criminals and whatnot, this would have prevented many of the great artists.
For example a letter in 1968 shows John Lennon as a wife beater amongst other deplorable things [0]. Stopping him at this point would have deprived the world of many creations.
[0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lennon-was-a-bully-and-ch...
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Is “well-behaved, PC, generic, and boring” really the central alternative to “entirely unsympathetic”?
Frequently, yes. Theoretically, you can have an artist that is well-behaved and interesting. But we don’t get to make that choice and you can’t custom order creativity to take the good bits and leave the bad bits (although crispr gets better and better). Especially since if you start blocking out the unsympathetic artists early in their career due to being jerks and criminals and whatnot, this would have prevented ma…
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Frequently, yes. Theoretically, you can have an artist that is well-behaved and interesting. But we don’t get to make that choice and you can’t custom order creativity to take the good bits and leave the bad bits (although crispr gets better and better). Especially since if you start blocking out the unsympathetic artists early in their career due to being jerks and criminals and whatnot, this would have prevented ma…
Would it have deprived the world, or would the world have turned its attention to another artist? What reason do we have to think no one else would’ve stepped into Lennon’s niche?