tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9226251.post-1161971251792644992006-10-27T12:38:00.000-05:002006-10-27T12:47:31.840-05:00<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Maybe I'm just going wrong or being mislead by my attraction to irony, but when I read <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/22/svbabies22.xml&site=6&amp;page=0">this</a> (or parts of this, at any rate, it's a little intolerable after a while) I couldn't help but think it sounded awfully ... childish.<br /><br />I imagine his Grandfather didn't go on and on about how people were being children or writing what appear to be books about it either. I'm also impressed by how much of that list he writes sounds like "My grandfather didn't have an inner life - he didn't need one!" I suppose there's some consolation here in that if he's right and self-examination and so on is a bad thing it's at least fairly clear that he hasn't done too much of it.</span>Dr Pretoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573343122387060193noreply@blogger.com