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How to Become an Intellectual
Nick Kolakowski
其他書名
100 Mandatory Maxims to Metamorphose into the Most Learned of Thinkers
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2012-03-18
主題
Humor / Topic / Adult
Reference / Curiosities & Wonders
Reference / General
ISBN
1440536104
9781440536106
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=__HrDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A Capacious and Quintessential Guide
Maxims:
#1: Carry a Scholarly Book (at
All
Times)
#12: Know Your Manet from Your Monet
#14: Be Proficient in at Least One Classical Instrument
#64: Learn to Recite Romantic-Era Poetry on Cue
If you think you need a PhD in Greek and Roman philosophy from an Ivy League school to call yourself an intellectual, reconsider your supposition. While you may envy the initials that follow distinguished names of professors and the intellectual elite, it's not the mortar board and scholarly robes you need—it's the obscure esoterica. In this primer, you'll learn to walk the talk of the intelligentsia, leaving simpletons and pseudo-intellectuals in your dust.
Inside
How to Become an Intellectual
, you will find the prodigious truths every self-respecting learned person lives by. This code of scholarly behavior allows aspiring high-brows like yourself to educate their unfortunate lessers, amaze their Mensa friends, and impress their fellow wise people—one distinguished bon mot at a time!