“At some point in the picture, a kindly female friend of Laura, who knows the facts of life, removes her glasses. It turns out, suddenly, that she can see perfectly well without them, and our hero falls passionately in love with the now-beautiful Laura and there is a perfectly glorious finale.” - Isaac Asimov’s essay “The Cult of Ignorance”
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Does anyone have the rest? The cut off paragraph about education seems way more important than just “you’d be stupid to think glasses fully hindered someone’s attractiveness”.
This is from a collection of essays by Asimov named “Is anyone there?”, if it helps. I tried to find a pdf of the book but didn’t find any. Its available on amazon, a little expensive though.
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