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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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    “Perhaps you will agree with me on the fact that the very concept of improvisation verges upon reading, since what we often understand by improvisation is the creation of something new, yet something which doesn’t exclude the pre-written framework that makes it possible.” (PDF)

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