I feared briefly for Nabokov—it wouldn’t be the first time an illiterate mob came to burn his books—but I realized that today’s inquisitors are too illiterate to have him in their sights.https://twitter.com/laurakipnis/status/941536500734464000 …
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Replying to @johnpaulpagano
It is this time again. The virtue of the public must be protected from art made by or involving impure people. The artist must be a respectable role model citizen, not a tortured soul, a fuckup, a sinner, a monstrous painful failure at grappling with the relationship to the world
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Replying to @Plinz @johnpaulpagano
i only want cultural and non-cultural produce that's been handled by rational and ethical agents.
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I can see a big future for Vegetarian Art. And it is clearly inacceptible that I still see myself being forced to use mathematics and physics that were invented by unclean people, who may have even had sex under circumstances I cannot approve of!
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