NP but RIP Hugh Hefner --since no one else here might.

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> When we worship beauty, we are worshipping life itself.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-hugh-hefners-legacy-trumps-masculinity-feminisms-sex-phobia-1044769

Am 29.09.2017 um 10:28 schrieb Mark Kohut:
I woke up this morning thinking my coy allusive words about Updike's remark would probably make anyone
think he said something about the beauty of naked women ala Playboy for young men. Stupidly wrong.

The quote has heart, and is not just about naked or artistic nude beauty and is close to this: The most beautiful sight
a young man--he means when we were still boys--sees is the naked body of a woman---he meant girl, a peer--he is in love with.
There....

She was beautiful.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com<mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
I reveal myself surely unflatteringly and surely politically incorrectly these days
when I say the 'working title' of GR, before I was enlightened by all of the
Orientalists, Mindless Pleasures usually made me think of Playboy Magazine.
Even the stories and articles.

I  won't quote John Updike's wonderful insight into most inartistic young men and beauty here
for fear of everyone, but think of nudes in art history and imagine what he said.

Thank you for everything Hugh, including paying Dick Gregory to find the bodies of
the murdered civil rights workers in the 60's.




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