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Article: Confessions of a disagreeable man
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- Skeptic
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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A review of The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy. Edited by the Editors of Lingua Franca, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press.
If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist all other kinds are sham
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow-creatures I endeavor to correct.
To all their little weaknesses I open people's eyes;
And little plans to snub the self-sufficient I devise I love my fellow creatures I do all the good I can
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
And I can't think why!
-W.S. Gilbert, King Gama's song from Princess Ida
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