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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Finished the Timothy Ferriss article (Sept. 5 issue) over lunch today. Sounds like a high-end snake oil salesman, you ask me.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 06, 2011, 12:54:46 pm ---Finished the Timothy Ferriss article (Sept. 5 issue) over lunch today. Sounds like a high-end snake oil salesman, you ask me.
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Yes, especially the part about the 15 minute orgasm!
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, I had a great time at lunch today reading Louis Menand's piece on Dwight Macdonald in the September 5 issue. Makes me want to run out and read some Macdonald.
But then, I also always enjoying reading Louis Menand. I envy people who get to have him for English at Harvard. I love sentences like this:
--- Quote ---A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.
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;D
Of course, with regard to Macdonald's financial requirements, Menand does mention that Macdonald married a woman who had a trust fund. 8)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 07, 2011, 01:30:20 pm ---But then, I also always enjoying reading Louis Menand. I envy people who get to have him for English at Harvard. I love sentences like this:
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He has claimed he never rewrites, that the sentences you read are exactly what he wrote the first time.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 07, 2011, 08:59:14 pm ---He has claimed he never rewrites, that the sentences you read are exactly what he wrote the first time.
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:o
Actually, that sentence I quoted made me think of you, Katharine. ;)
At least the part about the outsized curiosity and skepticism. :)
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