[1]Canadian writer, Douglas Coupland [2], who coined the phrase, Generation X, has a great piece in the Times today, where he offers up a dictionary of new terms [3] for the modern age:
INTRAFFINITAL MELANCHOLY VS. EXTRAFFINITAL MELANCHOLY Which is lonelier: to be single and lonely, or to be lonely within a dead relationship?
The answer’s a no brainer, right?
Image: Don’t Cry Tears, Love Me, 1993, by Yoshitomo Nara. See his work at the Asia Society Museum [1] through January 20.