This is a strange, self-accusatory doublethink".
But also incomparably strange, self-aware, and somehow very moving.
My own mother had her own version of this strange self-flagellating ritual.
It does strange, self-indulgent and inexplicable things you can't help but be drawn to.
This bold and strange self-image could scarcely tell us more clearly that Munch is in a bad place.
He was more often than not drunk, improvising the lines and interpolating them with strange self-interrogations.
One intends no slight by saying that he loves Connemara, "this strange, self-obsessed countryside", as only an outsider could.
Which helps explain, perhaps, the strange, self-contradictory defensiveness that greets the Catholic Church's persistent refusal to simply bless every new development and call it progress.
But, as Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center, observes, a strange, self-sustaining relationship remains.
Appreciation for the sort of strange, self-referential humour that Wain and Showalter specialise in has grown in the years since WHAS.
