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Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror with Louis Betty

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Welbeck's Love

Love is one of the places, i think, that this welbeckian world perception consistently trips up. That's where they almost always, like, it would be easy for them to just go into a drug or alcohofu feel stupor for ever. Yeit's typically the only oasis that'sens of protecting his characters from a, you know, from the ambient materialist horror. Younow, it's the possibility of an island, you now, thats the title of the novel. At the same time, love, it's, it's reckoned, is completely dependent on the body and a person's attractiveness.

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