Artistically, Randall dwells in that uncomfortable region where he's not good enough to write funny jokes and not confident enough to commit to bad jokes, so he settles for apologizing for them.
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Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon had never owned any other watch; Disney animations had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color, and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart.
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Randall thinks a little bit of levity is more important than ever in these dark times.
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"Also there are probably parties" hahaha that's so wacky, he's such a nerd he doesn't even really care about the parties
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You can tell "millennial" is a great slur because of how upset millennials get about it.
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wow it's so meta
"'Fact' is in modern culture a folk-concept with an aristocratic ancestry. When Lord Chancellor Bacon as part of the propaganda for his astonishing and idiosyncratic amalgam of past Platonism and future empiricism enjoined his followers to abjure speculation and collect facts, he was immediately understood by such as John Aubrey to have identified facts as collectors' items, to be gathered in with the same kind of enthusiasm that at other times has informed the collection of Spode china or the numbers of railway engines. The other early members of the Royal Society recognized very clearly that, whatever Aubrey was doing, it was not natural science as the rest of them understood it..." -Alisdair Macintyre, "After Virtue"
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