Quotable
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One of the reasons Louis Menand is among my favorite writers is that even his parenthetical asideas are a pleasure. For instance, in this entertaining essay about a new book of quotations, he notes that the section drawn from advertisements comes right after “the section for Theodor Adorno, who would have grimly appreciated the irony and probably composed an incomprehensible aphorism about it.”