How I Became Stupid
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Author: Martin Page
Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page’s stinging satire, “How I Became Stupid” a modern day “Candide” with a Darwin Award-like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today’s culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himsel….Read More
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