he didn't know about his face. his parents, in order to protect him from something, had sent him to an all-boys school, where his nerdiness, his rulebound nature, & his aesthetic & emotional sensitivity were more salient to his classmates than his face. only when he was bullied so badly that his parents pulled him out of the boys' school & sent him for lack of other options to the local coed public high school did he start to get an inkling. even then he was too innocent, & humbled by past experience to fully absorb the knowledge. but in the coed public high school, it started to matter that he had an exquisite face.
(sorry to bother you here about unrelated items but with the hellsite now more hellish and sympoppless there's little alternative - would you like to be the writer/humanities person to read a draft paper I'm working on? It is AI-related but aimed at non-technical readers and touches many of the themes you hold dear. gmail is same as twitter handle)
(sorry to bother you here about unrelated items but with the hellsite now more hellish and sympoppless there's little alternative - would you like to be the writer/humanities person to read a draft paper I'm working on? It is AI-related but aimed at non-technical readers and touches many of the themes you hold dear. gmail is same as twitter handle)