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January 28, 2007

Eccentricity

In the eighteenth century to be an eccentric you had to worship Satan, gamble, go hot air ballooning, accidentally kill someone, marry a close relative, flee from creditors, be addicted to opium, write and privately publish a pornographic novel, discover one of the elements and have a star, a species of plant or a national dish named after you.

These days it is enough to fail to possess any one of the following: a television, a car, a mobile phone.

Posted by hgrodsk at January 28, 2007 03:19 PM

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if you fail to possess two of them, does that mean you're mad?

Posted by: jk at February 2, 2007 12:10 AM

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