Ah, but reading about this provided me with pleasure, Max -- which is
to say I laughed....
(& my but youre providing us with much too take in these days....)
Doug
On 7-Dec-08, at 11:27 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> 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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