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8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“The fisheries collapsed, and it was devastating economically there. So there’s a dark sense of humor and way of getting by happily in difficult circumstances that, I think, offsets it a little bit from the rest of Canada.”
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- 8 Apr 2020
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…That’s already weird, right? That’s already weird, yeah. What is that half time zone thing? All of the Newfies I’ve met — they just have these amazing, slightly warped senses of humor that I love. It’s a place that lived in a state of economic collapse for really a very long time. The fisheries collapsed, and it was devastating economically there. So there’s a dark sense of humor and way of getting by happily in difficult circumstances that, I think, offsets it a little bit from the rest of Canada. On the other hand, British Columbia — where I’m from — that’s where all of the hippies and draft dodgers went in the ’60s and ’70s. That’s a coast that attracts some weirdness. But there’s no clear Canadian Florida. There’s no “Florida man” meme equivalent in Canada. And you don’t have the animals for it, or do you?…
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