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by nonrandomstring
856 days ago
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Worse, they were kind of censored - burned by do-gooders to protect
the "reputation" of a libertine whose life and ideas were beyond their
grasp - a poet who judged 'success' as "Men think highly of those who
rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust,
straw, and feathers." In a way, their vicarious vanity secured a
legend, forever casting wonder on what unspeakably shocking secrets
they held. Today these cowards live on, proscribing as "unacceptable"
or "problematic" whatever we may say, think or feel in the digital
world. One day all our memoirs will be burned by the moral descendents
Hobhouse and Moore. |
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