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It's a voice that, a few years back, was suddenly everywhere in American fiction and journalism: whimsical, digressive, grandiose but ironic about it, experimental in a lighthearted way, with B-movie rhetoric but sincere feelings, and sophisticated discourse punctuated by chatty interjections – "oh" and "kind of" and "here's the thing".
Sincere appreciation sincerely expressed.
Perhaps even now some Wallacites would argue that we simply have yet to reach that idyllic moment at which our discourse will naturally transform into a sincere yet knowing cry from the heart.
But in Shit Britain, sentimentality is the natural reaction to the strange sensation one has when attempting to be sincere in an age where irony is the dominant mode of discourse.
In this satirical parody, the madam advises her young student: "You must cloath your discourse with a meek, grave, and pious aspect, to make your sophistry pass for sincere and real".
Everything is on the table, so long as we are conducting business in the currency of intellectual discourse — marshaling evidence, giving reasons, making arguments — not for the sake of victory, but in the sincere pursuit of truth.
Difficulty also remains in determining Charron's actual views, for, although his Discours chrestiens (1600; "Christian Discourses"), a collection of 16 discourses on various aspects of Christian life, and his own religious life indicate that his Christianity was sincere, portions of De la sagesse suggest that it was not.
Some folk discourse.
"But sincere".
Less discourse.
A gun silences discourse.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com