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One radical option remains: abnegation — some “Great Refusal” to obey the obscure social injunction that condemns us to a lifetime of listening

Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee

Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies

Hegel was seen (a bit tendentiously) by Althusser and his disciples as a confident oracle of the End of History

Somehow the result of this trick is not bathos but profundity; we see that the story means something more than we thought it might.