Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Intellectual Vanity

Often when I read mindless entertainment like The Devil Wears Prada, I find myself folding the cover back when in public. I do not do this with titles like Les Miserables or The Corrections.

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2 comments:

  1. i do that too. there is this series of
    books that are the journals of a
    14-15 year old in england and they
    are absolutely rediculous but i can't
    get enough of them. they have titles
    like.. "angus, thongs and full-frontal
    snogging" and "love is a many trousered
    thing." i own them all in hardback and
    i ALWAYS take the covers off. sometimes
    i feel like i'm letting my brain down a
    little.. but not quite enough to get my
    hands off them. i can't stop myself :)

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  2. There should be an American Idol for "best pet theory", which liberal arts academics come on stage to explain breathlessly to a panel of three computers.

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