In the April 21 issue of the New Yorker, noted curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen writes (full version not actually available online), "My difficulty with golf is that, although I play it once or twice a year to be sociable, I dislike almost everything about it."
Wouldn't it save time if he just noted the things that he does like (or at least doesn't dislike)?
2 comments:
I'm not sure that's the way of the curmudgeon. In a conversation, the omission is designed to draw the other party into inquiring as to what the curmudgeon does enjoy, ending in a discussion of the Hoover administration's tax policies.
Hawley-Smoot!
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