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24 Apr 2019 Conversations with Tyler Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
“It depends on what part of Canada you’re in. I think the further west you go, the less of a sense of humor they have.”
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- 24 Apr 2019
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…How so? Well, it’s kind of ironic. It depends on what part of Canada you’re in. I think the further west you go, the less of a sense of humor they have. [laughter] But that’s just my own personal opinion. My family’s from Nova Scotia, so that’s as far east as you can get. And they go in for deadpan lying. [laughter] In 1974, you wrote, “The Canadian sense of humor was often obsessed with the issue of being provincial versus being cosmopolitan.”…
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