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    Disreputable heroes

    I'm increasingly enjoying the work of John Ruskin. He seems a very interesting and quite likeable chap. Except for one thing- he was a paedophile. Not that he did anything anyone knows about but there are some very dodgy passages about 10 year old girls. One of them he tried to talk into being his wife when she was older. This is chilling to me not just in itself but because a friend of our family used to talk about her husband having done that with her- and she didn't see anything wrong with it. I was almost sick.

    Still, that's my hero for you. I'm not going to separate works from the man because I think I like the man. Can anyone beat that?
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