The Omniscient Mussel

On The Other Hand

On Friday, Miss Mussel wrote on the relationship between humour and criticism, taking great care to disparage academic hubris, or, to use the vernacular “having [one's] head up [one's own] ass.”

After some late night YouTube trawling, it appears that there is a fault in her argument. As Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie clearly demonstrate, hubris and humour are not, as previous asserted, mutually exclusive.

On this day..

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    [...] and joy. It was enough to show Miss Mussel that it was possible to talk about music without having her head stuck up her own ass. A critic could be funny and still credible. Even be [...]

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