>
>Why are Wildean wits so miserable in real life?
>
>Perhaps cynicism is not a containable talent - and ends up extending to
>oneself.
>
>Brian Eno once wrote in reply -
>
>True, the only person I ever knew with a Wildean wit was deeply miserable
>and a serious alcoholic. But what is this connection? Is it that they are
>not just acting out the cynicism that forms the basis of wit, but showing
>how they really feel - totally cynical? What makes for good
>(modernists/humorists) is an ability to slide between frames of reference
>unexpectedly, and to misapportion value to them. One assumes that this is
>something people choose to do, but perhaps there are people who can't help
>doing it, and who really can't make any convincing decisions about the
>relative value of their different possible reference frames.
>
>that's just one view I suppose. Eno makes a good point.
>over^and>out
>laura anne katter
>
does anyone understand this message?, does anyone want to?.
please bring a little more sanity back to the site, and if you do have to
write crap like this then please, please make it shorter. It might be a good
idea to explain what your getting at, in plain language for all us normal
people out there.....
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