
Afterthoughts
or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Richard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. Thoughts like . . .
TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it.
If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there's something wrong with your doors. They shouldn't be doing that.
Where's the box to tick if you ARE a robot?
My mother used to say Manners Maketh the Man, but I didn't think it was very mannerly of her to make fun of my lisp.
Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne. Men who have searched for meaning with, let's face it, mixed results. Whither the one who can solve it? Cometh the hour, cometh the Ayoade. He brings wisdom distilled from a life lived in relentless pursuit of Truth.
Afterthoughts goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- To Begin: A Colloquy for One
- Part One: Ways of Being: A Quick Set-Up Guide
- Part Two: The Problem with People: Forty-Eight Thoughts Concerning the Folly of Others
- Part Three: The Young (How to Subdue Them); Friendships (How to Avoid Them); Relationships (How to Win Every Power Battle); and Family (How to Minimise Its Hold)
- Part Four: Stories We Tell Ourselves: Myth, Media and the Vita Creativa
- Part Five – The Finale: Private Lessons: Two Hundred and Twenty-Three Things I’ve Taught Myself the Hard Way
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright