This guy must post here.

[pvrhye]

http://networkedblogs.com/ghg0C

From Letters of Note:

I do not like the picture at all,"”in fact I cannot find words to express how much I dislike it.

You were never physically attractive to me; you are neither graceful nor beautiful, and you evidently know nothing of the laws or properties of beauty. Otherwise you could not have sent me such a picture, as it could only disgust me.

Whatever liking I have had for you, it has never been of such a character that I could be otherwise than disgusted by such a picture as that. It is unutterably coarse and gross and beefy. It is simply unendurable.

Not that I object to low dresses "” or even to an utter absence of dress, when the unveiling reveals attractions which the eye of the artist loves as something shapely and beautiful. I have an instinctive and cultivated knowledge of what physical beauty is, and anything in direct violation of my taste and knowledge"”like your picture,"”simply sickens me. I have studied every limb and line in the bodies of fifty young women, and more; and know what form is and beauty is. You must not think me a fool. You are a fine woman in regard to health and strength; you are not a handsome or even a tolerably good looking woman physically, and your picture is simply horrible, horrible, horrible.

This is plain speaking; but I think it is necessary for you. You cannot make yourself physically attractive to me. Don't try. I am an artist, a connoisseur, a student of beauty, and it is very hard to please me. Don't disgust me, please"”

Yours truly,

L. Hearn.

 

[Liquidus]

I can see why this guy is a writer. I've never heard/read such a eloquently written rejection of someone.

 

[Blackhood]

Brutal.

 

[Kiwi Man]

It makes me want to see the picture. I wonder how bad it can be.

 

[Journeyman]

Originally Posted by Liquidus

I can see why this guy is a writer. I've never heard/read such a eloquently written rejection of someone.

Was a writer - Hearn died 107 years ago.

He's best known - well, to me, at least - for the fact that he spent the last 15 years of his life in Japan, married a Japanese lady, became a Japanese citizen (with a Japanese name, as you must), and wrote a couple of books about Japan whilst teaching at Tokyo University (formerly Tokyo Imperial University).

 

[pvrhye]

I posted this because it sounds like some of the crits people get from time to time.

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by Liquidus

I can see why this guy is a writer. I've never heard/read such a eloquently written rejection of someone.

I can't stand when people are sitting on the fence..

 

[southbound35]

May kop and footnote in my responses to online dating site would-be paramours.

 

[CaymanS]

 

[Klobber]

I remember watching a DOC about the Boer war, and one of the British generals said to the Boer leaders wife "Madam, you are unpardonably ugly".

 

[mktitsworth]

"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk." -- Lady Astor
"Madame, I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." -- Winston Churchill

 

[noob in 89]

Originally Posted by L. Hearn

This is plain speaking.

Real talk.

 

[ShayaEXQT]

good stuff!

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by mktitsworth

"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk." -- Lady Astor
"Madame, I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." -- Winston Churchill

Nope...

He was talking to Bessie Braddock , a woman Labour MP...


The poisoned tea tirade is with her.

 

[tombrokaw]

This guy is great. Of course he's dead, and so probably not a member.