More Properly, he was Droll, i.e. curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement. I think ol ‘Honore invented the style of feigned ironic detachment in order to draw a laugh. In the years that followed, he delivered up countless towns in Asia and in Africa to sack, fell upon the miscreants without… Read More Balzac Was Funny
The good news is, I didn’t pay for it. Here’s a mostly-fun article by Dwight Garner, about the joy of having enemies: This is a column, however, about that old-fashioned word—enemies. Today we more often speak of “rivals” or “competitors.” Richard Nixon would have been vastly duller had he compiled a rivals list instead of an… Read More I Picked Up a Copy of Esquire and Now I Regret It.
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