"Empirical Aesthetics, Or, Eating a Durian Fruit" -- Gee, I wish my professor of "Negative Aesthetics" was as cool as Cynthia Freeland! Wait...I mean, I wish I had taken "Negative Aesthetics" at all. Durian is the "King of Fruits," despite its off-puting shape and toxic stench...surely a contradiction ripe (!) for classroom debate.