Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.
Michael FoleyTag: sex joyce proust masurbation
After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.
Michael FoleyPut any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.
Michael FoleyTag: superiority immigrants
Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.
Michael FoleyTag: snobbery
As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.
Michael FoleyTag: superiority snobbery
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.
Michael FoleyTag: wine coffee sacraments
Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.
Michael FoleyTag: religion literature
Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.
Michael FoleyTag: office meetings sycophancy
The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.
Michael FoleyTag: servants
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