Christopher Buckley on The History of the Social Faux Pas
The Secrets of Statecraft
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The Fopa, the Human Comedy
Fopa are reminders that however much the human race dresses itself up, you still can't take it out. Aquinas called man the risible animal. He meant risible because we laugh. And our humanity never seems more human than those unrehearsed moments when we put a foot wrong and slip on banana peels,. largely of our own strewing.
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