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[lapsedmodernist]

I thought this was a joke. All the way through the story. I thought this was New Yorker doing, like, covert Shouts and Murmurs. Oh, I get it, I thought--the Saramago and the melatonin are, like, to name-check a yuppie/gay/metrosexual lifestyle.

It's not a joke, apparently.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060925ta_talk_collins

Question: if I thought this was a joke, for a really long time, does that make me an optimist?

Comments

[monkeypunk.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason (despite consistent inability to make a smooth flight) that I avoid AA at all costs.

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

I totally thought it was satire, and wouldn't have known otherwise unless you'd said so. Perhaps I've been living in large coastal cities for too long?

[profundamente.livejournal.com]

i find there is something totally bizarre and creepy about the *tone*.

[alice-ayers.livejournal.com]

I know the writer--it's NOt a joke.

(also, yes, a little.)

[macthud]

gack.

I'd have hoped it were a satire column, were it not that you've already declared that not to be.

I wish there were a way to bring evolution to bear on this sort a little faster...