the libido for the ugly 全文讲义

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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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• 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 the complete 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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the title
• this is a piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description.
• libido: concept originated by Sigmund Freud to
signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy associated with sexual urges and with all constructive human activity. In the text, it means psychic energy generally; specifically, a basic form of psychic energy, comprising the positive, loving instincts manifested variously at different stages of persoanality development. Drive, desire. 9
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Pennsylvania State Profile
State Unique Name The Keystone State
Capital City
Harrisburg
Location
40.27605 N, 076.88450 W
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Ruffed Grouse
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1,20,19,661
Statehood
December 12, 1787
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Hemlock
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description
• description is painting a verbal picture of a person, a place, an object, a scene, etc. in order to enable his reader to perceive the reality of the original, the writer reproduces an image and invokes that reality essencially by specific and concrete words that appeal to the reader's sense of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
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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 overcome 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.