True or False? The delusion that doing well in school will win me love has disfigured my life. Discuss in 5-7 pages.

Terry Castle

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The obsessions of others embarrass and repel because they seem to dehumanize, to make the obsessed one robotic and alien and unavailable.

Terry Castle

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...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.

Terry Castle

Tag: satire mock-heroic self-burlesque

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