Thou Knowest the People, That They Are Set On Mischief (opens in new tab)

People do not deserve to have good writing; they are so pleased with bad. — Emerson, The Heart of Emerson’s Journals The Lady of the House began reading romance novels under the respectable flag of irony. “Oh, it’s funny, because the writing is so bad,” she said, as if conducting fieldwork among the primitives. But […]