I recently bought a romance novel from an unknown British author, published in the 1856, with a “Beauty” in the title and other words worn down. I suspect the author is a woman who doesn't want to be famous.
There's nothing to tell, it's a CLICHe romance in which every man falls in love with our MC, who is even more beautiful and demure than Venus. But the leading man is the youngest prime minister in the history of the parallel universe. He is very handsome, intelligent and loyal to our heroine! But as he began to make his political point, I began to laugh: he said that any striking worker was a traitor to the Empire, the activists who wanted to fight for workers' rights so as not to starve to death were all scoundrels who had betrayed the kindness of Queen Victoria. They should all be hanged immediately, and the leaders of the colonial uprisings who tried to resist the tyranny of imperialism should be fed to the Lions
Our intelligent and elegant aristocratic MC agrees with everything the Prime Minister says and says that any commoner who tries to defy his position will be punished by God. When I saw this, I couldn't help laughing, and laughed for one minute.
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The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich was the most informative book I’ve ever read on the Nazis but holy shit it’s homophobic as FUCK. The author basically put “homosexualism” on their list of crimes like it was on level with the others.
I’m sure in 150 years they’ll be laughing at our popular literature, or crying.
I think that’s the better way to go over just refusing to read
Not so much political, but there was a Sherlock Holmes story that made me laugh when the Great Detective takes some time for himself to relax. How, exactly? By shooting up on a suspension of cocaine, as causally as someone might light a cigarette.
I find that reading classic books gives a real insight into the culture and times that produced it. I’m not sure I find anything outright funny about it, like laugh out loud funny, but there are definitely some cultural quirks that seem way out of whack with modern thinking. You can get the same kind of thing from classic movies and television programs, as long as you’re canny enough to not take Leave It To Beaver at face value.
I remember reading a treaty about the sublime from Edmund Burke without really knowing who the guy was.
The first 80% of the treaty was honestly pretty modern. If you told me that it was something written last decade, I would have believed you. It was an interesting piece of information about the meaning of the sublime and the beautiful. Probably my favorite piece of philosophy.
When I got to the last part, the guy was arguing about why women were beautiful, and one of his first conclussions was that they were beautiful because of how inferior they were to men in every way. The more inferior they are, the more beautiful they become. It took me by surprise and I started laughing like crazy.
The guy lived in the 1700s.
I had the same experience with Kant. I was also reading a treaty of him, funnily enough in response to Burke. The first two pages was philosophical theory, the rest was just him going fucking INSANE about women. Again, it was just hilarious. This was even more extreme than the Burke one for some reason. It didn’t even feel like something from that time. I felt like the guy just fucking hated women lol
Was reading Proust. Obvious he’s gay. Him railing about deviance in Sadon and Gamorah….like come on baby gay. You’ll get it.