The Libido for the Ugly
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The Libido for the Ugly
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"The Libido for the Ugly" is an essay by H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), a Baltimore journalist, satirist, and social critic of the American scene. "The Libido for the Ugly" was first published in 1926 as a column in the Baltimore Evening Sun and next in Mencken's book Prejudices: Sixth Series. Since then the essay has been widely reprinted and celebrated in anthologies. Rhetorically the piece uses Juvenalian satire to lampoon the industrial blight of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, the nation's
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1926 essay by H. L. Mencken
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