In vague honour of the recent release of The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book JokesIn vague honour of the recent release of The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (featuring a riff on Borgès by occasional Walrus contributor David Ng),^{*I shouldn’t be honouring them, given that they turned down my hilarious submission, “Gary Shteyngart Is a Shtupidface,” but that’s just the kind of generous spirit I am.} an unwittingly funny quote I had the misfortune to come across yesterday. It’s the response of Sweden’s foremost contribution to world literature, August Strindberg,^{*Sorry about your luck, Göran Sonnevi.} to Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil :
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