Thursday, January 31, 2008

"Regrets on Parting with my Old Dressing Gown"


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Denis Diderot, a French philosopher, wrote a piece called "Regrets on Parting with my Old Dressing Gown" which, in turn, created the aphorism "the Diderot effect" - which is when you buy a new thing and suddenly everything else looks worse by comparison, which starts a spending binge.

Read "Regrets on Parting with my Old Dressing Gown" here.

The only reason I looked up Diderot in Wikipedia is because I'm struggling through 'The Brothers Karamazov' and he is mentioned quite a lot.

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