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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by cafard on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:06PM (#25451510)
"Art" used ironically, or perhaps whimsically, is fairly common in English. "The art of being well deceived" appears in both Swift and Pope. Whistler wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
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Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them by cafard on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:59AM (#25454449)
Correction: in Swift it is "The peaceful possession of being well deceived". Pope made it "art".
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