ACCUMULATING PERIPHERALS


French people, desiring the impossible
July 3, 2009, 8:37 am
Filed under: Music, Philosophy

John Quiggin Holbo thinks Matthew Yglesias is wrong: the answer to the question on the French Bac exam is that it’s not absurd to desire the impossible. What’s clear is that if French teens consider this question a serious one, it’s because they have quite rightly been listening to plenty of Paris-based Swedish musician Peter Von Poehl.

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Actually, it’s John Holbo who disagrees, though I agree with John Holbo

Comment by John Quiggin July 3, 2009 @ 9:45 am
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I desire never again to make silly mistakes of this sort, but that’s obviously impossible.

Comment by mattsteinglass July 4, 2009 @ 5:33 am
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All I know is that I must have more French blood in me than I’d reckoned…

Comment by Forrester McLeod July 6, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
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