What’s Aged the Worst?
Work hours; service; poetry; shallow Anderson criticism; concierges; fascism; illness
In the discussion (8)
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- Working six-and-a-half days from 5a.m. to midnight is an exhausting standard.
- Modern hotel service does not seem to match the idealized film version, though the historical comparison is uncertain.
- The spontaneous romantic poetry is considered intentionally terrible and funny.
- Dismissing Anderson as merely an affected stylist is rejected as a lingering bad take.
- The concierge profession’s reduced distinctiveness is debated, with valuable local and language assistance defended.
- Fascism is condemned, with a dark joke that its persistence complicates the category.
- Scribe’s fever, understood as depressive writer’s block, remains an unwelcome problem.
- Confidence that modern medicine would swiftly cure the fatal illness has aged badly after pandemic experience.