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Arthur de Gobineau. His contemporaries mocked him for having dark, protruding, bug eyes.
>In 1871, poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt who met Gobineau described him thus:
>"Gobineau is a man of about 55, with grey hair and moustache, dark rather prominent eyes, sallow complexion, and tall figure with brisk almost jerky gait. In temperament he is nervous, energetic in manner, observant, but distrait, passing rapidly from thought to thought, a good talker but a bad listener. He is a savant, novelist, poet, sculptor, archaeologist, a man of taste, a man of the world."
His mother, Anne-Louise Magdeleine de Gercy, was the daughter of a non-noble royal tax collector whose family lived in Haiti, which made him fear that he was mulatto. Magdeleine cucked Gobineau's father as his private tutor and took his sisters away prostituting/scamming to support themselves, which made Gobineau the butt of jokes among his fellow aristocrats. Despite despising his cuckold father, Gobineau married Clémence Gabrielle Monnerot, the woman his best friend, Pierre de Serre, got pregnant and abandoned her.
To cope with this, Gobineau had a hyper-focus on the Middle Ages, Islam and Norse paganism; one of his colleagues said of him:
>"All of his aspirations were towards the East. He dreamt only of mosques and minarets; he called himself a Muslim, ready to make the pilgrimage to Mecca."
Despite being very sympathetic to Medieval Catholicism and Islam, Gobineau abandoned Catholicism and in all seriousness began to worship the ancient pagan gods of the Vikings. And in his last book, Histoire de Ottar Jarl, he attempted to trace his ancestry back to Ottar Jarl, a Norwegian pirate settled in Normandy who was a member of a royal race that claimed descent from Odin.
TL;DR Here we have the typical /pol/ autist, problems with his mother, going reeee boomer on his father, delusions of grandeur, fantasies about a romanticized past, sympathy for Islam, autist obsession with purity etc.
