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Bonds
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
And much of Ty's fixation on his "causes" resonates from "Keep the Aspidista Flying."
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"Shooting An Elephant" is much more germane to my duties as a moderator.
The essay I quoted above sets out some conventions for humor, which may prove useful for the posters here who keep working with this material:
- CONVENTIONS OF THE SEX JOKE
(i) Marriage only benefits the women. Every many is plotting seduction and every woman is plotting marriage. No woman every remains unmarried voluntarily.
(ii) Sex-appeal vanishes at about the age of twenty-five. Well-preserved and good-looking people beyond their first youth are never represented. The amorous honey-mooning couple reappear as the grim-visaged wife and shapeless, mustachioed, red-nosed husband, no intermediate stage being allowed for.
CONVENTIONS RE HOME LIFE
(i) There is no such thing as a happy marriage.
(ii) No man ever gets the better of a woman in argument.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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