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Ceci est une pipe (8)

By: Joshua Glenn
July 31, 2010

One in an irregular, ongoing, and self-explanatory series of posts.

Liberals smoke pipes.

Radicals smoke pipes.

Conservatives smoke pipes.

Anarchists smoke pipes.

Categories

Codebreaking, Semiotics

Tags

André Breton, Angela Davis, Arthur Miller, Evelyn Waugh, pipe

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.

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