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It's good to separate the artist from the art. That said, I'm disappointed to learn he was apparently a pedophile.
by pstuart 5y ago
It's good to separate the artist from the art. That said, I'm disappointed to learn he was apparently a pedophile.
- random314 5y agoOnly a "pedophile" in the sense that Michael Jackson is a "pedophile". The girl pictured in the photograph never recalled any impropriety.
- asveikau 5y agoNot a great analogy for the point you're trying to make. A few people close to Michael Jackson alleged impropriety.
- random314 5y agoThe ones who alleged impropriety had prior track records of extortion. You have to actually dig deeper and read all the allegations and evidence. In particular the statement of support by Corey Feldman.
- rectang 5y agoThat seems ungenerous. There's no evidence of impropriety. Twain outlived his wife and two of his three daughters, and characterized the "aquarium club" as "surrogate granddaughters". Twain's only actual granddaughter was born a few months after his death in 1910, and since he celebrated children in works like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the idea of the "aquarium club" consoling the embittered old man with a dose of childhood optimism seems plausible.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoIt seems an ungenerous viewpoint of the world that holds one only enjoys the company of a child not their own for purposes of pedophilia, or the company of young women because one is doing them.
- readthenotes1 5y agoIt is almost literally pedophilia, the love of children--but I'm really commenting on the shortfall of English which uses love for many different feelings.