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Originally Posted by AlexBell
This is an interesting thread, and has made me wonder.
I wonder: should I stop listening to Wagner's or Gesualdo's music? Are there any artists whose paintings I should no longer look at or architects whose buildings I should not enter because of their actions or beliefs?
Or does the principle apply only to writers? And if so, why?
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I am feeling a certain ambivalence. I have only ever read
Mists of Avalon by MZB, and that a very long time ago, so I don't have any opinion of her work. But I've been thinking of Anne Perry; I learned of the murder she committed before I ever read any of her books and for some time I avoided them because of it, but now she's become one of my favorite authors.
One heinous act seems forgivable, whereas a pattern of depravity or amorality does not.