And he's holding MTW's Gravitation tome in the photo!
BTW: Why do so few people pose with their favorite books (or holding any book) in profile photos, this was common when people had their portrats painted in the past. Has it become a turn-off?
BTW: Why do so few people pose with their favorite books (or holding any book) in profile photos, this was common when people had their portrats painted in the past. Has it become a turn-off?
I think it's because it's book with very large title font, which shows the mirror isn't reversing the text. It just also happens to be a favorite book of his (much better than if you saw "$AUTHOR_NAME" which is what you'd see for popular fiction, wouldn't you say?)
The reason that 50 Shades of Grey is subjected to highbrow literary scrutiny, is that it pretends to be highbrow literature. Male pornography usually makes no pretense, being more along the lines of logjammin' "ich bin here to fix your kable"
That's the patriarchy angle, if you actually want it.
Male porn is just porn, but "50 shades of gray" is presented as it is a regular book...
It's also 20 levels below in writing quality, like a messed up straight 20,000 lines amateur PHP monstrosity compared to something written by Rich Hickey.