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9492663 No.9492663 [Reply] [Original]

>be me
>be ugly
/lit/ I need the names of writers or philosophers who address physical ugliness. Already got Houellebecq and Sartre

>> No.9492674

>>9492663
> Houellebecq
>cq
france why

>> No.9492681

Bukowski

>> No.9492715

>>9492681
This.

If you've ever had acne or felt self-conscious about your looks, Ham-On-Rye captures the emotions perfectly.

>> No.9492785

>>9492663
Mishima

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>>9492681
Ty
>>9492785
No one who knows ugliness would have this picture taken

>> No.9492842

>>9492663
Dostoevsky did in Notes from the Underground

>> No.9492849

Read Skylark by Kosztolányi

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>>9492849
I will.
>The inevitable dissatisfaction with one’s own appearance is the engine not only of philosophy but of civil society at large.
What did he mean by this

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>>9492785
/lit/ post cute

>> No.9494865
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>The historical Socrates, from all that the ancient sources report, must have been strikingly ugly. But in this he was surely not alone among the Athenians. That his unfortunate appearance became such a focus of attention must derive from the offensive nature of his intellectual activities. The likening of Socrates to silens, satyrs, and Marsyas, as we hear from Plato and Xenophon, probably originated with his enemies and detractors, for the particular traits that are usually mentioned in the comparison—the squat figure with big belly, broad and flat face with bulging eyes, the large mouth with protruding lips, and the bald head—were all considered, by the standards of kalokagathia, not only ugly, but tokens of a base nature.
bump

>> No.9494869

>>9492849
>>9492924
want to read this too. im actually quite good looking, but dont want it to be the defining characteristic of my life

>> No.9495006

Post face

>> No.9495026

I think The Sun Also Rises is but I've never read it, google it if you care

>> No.9495028

>>9492663
Exactly how ugly are you? It's only very recently that men have to be 10/10 muscular dudes to get ahead at life; most writers in history were rather plain looking.

>> No.9496225

>>9495028
Most people are rather plain looking, anon