http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/alain-de-bottons-poor-sense-of-irony/ media & film, design, philosophy, politics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:14:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/alain-de-bottons-poor-sense-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-50 slawkenbergius Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:34:41 +0000 http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/alain-de-bottons-poor-sense-of-irony/#comment-50 If there's anything I've learned from this and from the Hayden White episode at VUNEX, it's that people who look erudite and self-possessed on paper often turn out to be pouty and tantrum-throwing little boys. What can Nina know about the sorrows of work, she hasn't spent three months stacking crates in the jungle! Girrrl, you doan know me!<br>(Besides, Stephen Leacock already wrote de Botton's book--<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xBQqAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&client=firefox-a#PPA158,M1" rel="nofollow">as satire</a>.) If there's anything I've learned from this and from the Hayden White episode at VUNEX, it's that people who look erudite and self-possessed on paper often turn out to be pouty and tantrum-throwing little boys. What can Nina know about the sorrows of work, she hasn't spent three months stacking crates in the jungle! Girrrl, you doan know me!
(Besides, Stephen Leacock already wrote de Botton's book–as satire.)

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