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Indirect Praise

George Saunders defines comedy as "the indirect praise of perfection". This is a place for principled mockery of goings-on in politics and the arts, but hopefully always in the service of something better.

There will also be direct praise, as and when something deserves it.

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  • The funnest table in town: Van Morrison meets R.D. Laing

    “The first number I played you “In The Garden” right? I’d been explaining that that is an actual meditation process. If you actually listen to that song and go into meditation, by the end of it you should be - if you’re following the thing attention wise - you should be in a state of transcendental mediation by the end of it. Because that’s what it is that I’m actually doing in that song, as I’m actually singing it, and by the time I get to ‘From the shiver from my neck down to my spine ignited me in daylight and nature’, if you follow all that, at that point you should be there.”

    Posted on December 14, 2010

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