Friday, June 23, 2006
IT'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN CLEVER AND STUPID: In our recent discussions about turnoffs in online personal ads there appeared to be a consensus that listing a book or film that was "mawkishly sentimental" in an online personal was a major negative. I suppose that at the various ends of the spectrum we can all agree about what is and isn't mawkishly sentimental. But where do you draw the line? For me, the easiest way to express the difference is to compare pre-1980 Stevie Wonder to his songs since then. The former are almost without exception sublime. The latter are, well, mawkish. So where do you draw the line?
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