the libido for the ugly 全文讲义.ppt

Unit Seven
Libido
for the
Ugly

-- Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956)
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Henry Louis Mencken(1880–1956)
an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century
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Mencken’s quotation: A cynic is a man who, when he smells a flower, looks around for a coffin.
Mencken's Creed
     I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than e by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.      I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...      I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in plete freedom of thought and speech...
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I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.      I believe in the reality of progress.      I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
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