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Mar 9– “A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding” (1738?) by Jonathon Swift
Summary: Jonathon Swift satirizes manners.
Commentary: I've always found Swift's satire a little dry. I used to think that was primarily a factor of age/culture, but as I've enjoyed some older and/or more foreign works in T5FSOB (Don Quixote is nearly a hundred years older, and was written in Spanish, but it's still funny) I'm starting to think it's more him specifically. Yes, some people use good manners as an excuse to be an asshole. Yes, sometimes people have manners that're good in a given situation but not in others. Thanks JS, great insight there.
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