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Article: Seinfeld.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- February 9, 1996
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Being Irish, I think it's important always to have a few really good reasons to be depressed--otherwise you'll start feeling good about stuff, and when you do that, you know the cosmos is going to put out the drop line on you: the disposal will back up, the pilot light in the furnace will go inexplicably out, you'll get a solicitation in the mail from the Psychic Friends Network, whatever. Paranoid/neurotic? Yeah: it is the way of my people.
By the way, this is a piece about "Seinfeld."
So: among the allowable reasons to be depressed at this point in time are the economy (especially in California); the recent death of Roger Zelazny, a great science-fiction ...