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Literary Friction Special - Elif Batuman

Literary Friction

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Humour Can Make the Everyday Weir Again

Iye, i tried very hard to be funny. It's allit's always a big effort to mei actually, humor is very political. Humor can kind of make the every day, or the mundane, weird again. Why are we ashamed of it if everyone has it? I just think that shame is this false idea of personal badness That attaches to universal things that we don't have to feel ashamed about.

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