Will Self in firstpost online...
It's like this friend of mine who's been trying to write The History of Fun for
the past decade or so. It goes without saying that fun, of its very nature, is a
state of mind that's atemporal, and therefore a history of it is a contradiction
in terms; but beyond this there's the inescapable feeling that this, of all
books, should be the one blurbed: "You'll
have as much fun reading it as it's author did writing it!" Whereas, the truth is
that writing about fun has proved nothing but a millstone around the poor man's
neck, and at times he's verged on the suicidal.
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