Thursday 2 July 2009

Sage Blows Gasket

I'm afraid this story made me laugh immoderately. It seems the great philosopher and sage has a degree of human frailty about him after all - I almost like him better for it. [pause for deep, de Botton-style thought] No I don't.

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  1. Good spot! What a charlie. I read an interview with him about his latest and he sounded as Theodore Zeldin would if he happened to be the Prince of Wales.

    "And what do you do? How absolutely fascinating! I wonder what might have attracted you to working with dog turds? [Provides answer himself through speculative monologue concerning (a) the cultural history of dog turds over the last two thousand years and (b) the possible attractions of the dog turd, forgetting all the while to mention the role and importance of earning money.]"

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  2. de Botton, da bum!

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  3. Many years ago the Eagle boys comic featured a series with Dan Dare, his arch enemy was a Treen called The Mekon who zoomed around on a buggy that hovered above the ground, de Botton is his double in appearance, he however hovers at an altogether different attitude.

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  4. Laughable, but also deeply annoying, because in his tantrum the sage writes "depreciate" when he means "deprecate" - an increasingly common error among the subliterate.

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