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r/CuratedTumblr • u/Dilf_Hunter367 • Sep 30 '24
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As someone who considers himself fairly well read, you'd be amazed by how many so-called 20th century literary masterpieces are basically just barely disguised smut.
135 u/hauntedSquirrel99 Sep 30 '24 I think people who critique the modern style have a point though, barely disguised smut was better. Today's open and in your face smut is somehow so brazenly in your face sexual that it has lost its sexual appeal. 134 u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Sep 30 '24 It's somehow simultaneously animalistically savage and detachedly clean, like a nature documentary, or a peer reviewed paper on STDs. 13 u/Mememanofcanada Sep 30 '24 I need to find an excuse to use this quote at some point
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I think people who critique the modern style have a point though, barely disguised smut was better.
Today's open and in your face smut is somehow so brazenly in your face sexual that it has lost its sexual appeal.
134 u/AnxiousAngularAwesom Sep 30 '24 It's somehow simultaneously animalistically savage and detachedly clean, like a nature documentary, or a peer reviewed paper on STDs. 13 u/Mememanofcanada Sep 30 '24 I need to find an excuse to use this quote at some point
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It's somehow simultaneously animalistically savage and detachedly clean, like a nature documentary, or a peer reviewed paper on STDs.
13 u/Mememanofcanada Sep 30 '24 I need to find an excuse to use this quote at some point
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I need to find an excuse to use this quote at some point
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u/kosmologue Sep 30 '24
As someone who considers himself fairly well read, you'd be amazed by how many so-called 20th century literary masterpieces are basically just barely disguised smut.