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Do We Remember The Event Or The Story?

April 22, 2009

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Primo Levi was a Holocaust survivor who spent the remainder of his life (1919-1987) trying to make sense of what happened in the German death camps. He explored his experiences in numerous works, including novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs. If this intrigues you at all, I would start with The Drowned And [...]

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A Definition of Sarcasm

April 21, 2009

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After I made a particularly fine joke one day, a friend said to me: “You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of sociopathy.” I laughed at this. Later, I looked up the word sociopath. The definition wasn’t as funny as my joke had been.
The Scientific Definition
From the Oxford English Dictionary (the [...]

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