by
Katie Roiphe
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The Perverse Allure of Messy Lives
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frisson
(en)
(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill
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one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson
on Mad Men
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago
one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson
on Mad Men
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago
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When we talk about the three-martini lunch these days, it is with a sort of dismissive contempt, tinged with a pleasurable thrill of superiority. How much more sensible we are than them! How much healthier! How much more prolific! "How did anyone get any work done?" someone will invariably ask. But maybe that's the wrong question, or maybe the kind of work they got done was a different kind of work, or maybe that is not the highest and holiest standard to which we can hold the quality of life.
don't know if I agree with the conclusions re: alcohol etc but I see her larger point, and it's not a bad one. esp cus the "work" people usually imagine when they ask that kind of question is almost always ephemeral and thus largely pointless white-collar work
When we talk about the three-martini lunch these days, it is with a sort of dismissive contempt, tinged with a pleasurable thrill of superiority. How much more sensible we are than them! How much healthier! How much more prolific! "How did anyone get any work done?" someone will invariably ask. But maybe that's the wrong question, or maybe the kind of work they got done was a different kind of work, or maybe that is not the highest and holiest standard to which we can hold the quality of life.
don't know if I agree with the conclusions re: alcohol etc but I see her larger point, and it's not a bad one. esp cus the "work" people usually imagine when they ask that kind of question is almost always ephemeral and thus largely pointless white-collar work