When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript

Perhaps he might have done more to capture the sheer weirdness of Dickens's fictional world.

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Ms Horn's early objets phallic horns attached to the head, curved horns extending from a woman's breasts to her mouth have a prosthetic weirdness about them that unashamedly echoes Surrealism's taste for erotic fetishism.

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The interesting thing about that, then, is they are quite happy to own that weirdness without thinking it's wrong.

BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript

Here's one more weirdness: the absence of a long-term futures market.

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And every day, some blog is telling you you have to like a new one, and I just kind of, sometimes, I feel like there's too much weirdness being disguised as quality.

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Better still, The High Strung shows both a richer appreciation for the finer points of the early Who and a sharper streak of originality by nailing the weirdness that lay at the core of many of Pete Townshend's songs.

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