• probablynaked@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Title is a bit simplistic, this guy’s work contained multitudes

    Also he was never a violent man and the subjects of his writing were not exactly supposed to represent real children

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s clickbait of the worst kind.

      Some of his work is unbelievably impressive, like a 30 foot wide, double sided painting. He has had no training as an artist or in writing (as far as I can see). This guy is one of the most celebrated outsider artists, and there is also a lawsuit in progress from some of his wayyyy distant relatives trying to rob all his trademarks and copyrights he left to his friends.

  • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Oh okay some schizo in a cave writes a manuscript about child torture and massacres and 4 billion people worship him but you do it in the 20th century and suddenly now there’s a problem

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    10 months ago

    I mean, this seems more sad than creepy. A lot of it sounds like him processing his childhood trauma, not any desire to torture kids himself.

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      10 months ago

      And processing through his Catholic faith and culture. Martyrs and gruesome displays of the torturing of saints.