Name: Conan Roasts Will Arnett For Reading A Long Quote | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
Uploaded: 2026-03-01T21:37:00.000Z
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Modal verbs - A2

I read the greatest quote that we don't have to get into now, but

Present continuous

It's quite long, so I'm not going to bore you.

And she has this other one called Beautiful World.

It came out, like three or four years ago.

There's this quote at the end that Buck is about.

Because you can be listing things she's done, and I'd like to hear the quote.

She displaces about 65 liters of water if you put her in a tank.

Honestly, your references are all, like, old and.

Why don't you go choke on her Red Sox bat while you're at it?

Hey, why don't you go fill in the back bay so there's more usable land?

So this woman writes this thing, this book.

A note to her friend, and she's just done an interview about her new book.

She says, I don't know if you've been following any of this, but

about a month ago, I was doing an interview over email, and

a journalist asked me what my partner thought of my books.

Unthinkingly, I wrote back that he had never read them.

So, of course, this became the headline of the interview.

Alice Kelleher, my boyfriend, has never read my books.

And afterwards, Felix, her boyfriend, saw a popular tweet saying, something like, this is tragic.

He showed me the tweet on the screen of his phone one evening without saying anything.

And at first I thought a perfect example of our shallow self congratulatory book culture in which non readers are shunned as morally inferior and the more books you read, the better you are than everyone else.

What we really have here is an example of a presumably normal insane person whose thinking has been deranged by the concept of celebrity.

An example of someone who genuinely believes that because she has seen my photograph and read my novels, she knows me personally and in fact knows better than I do what is best for my life.

It's normal for her not only to think of these bizarre thoughts privately, but

to express them in public and receive positive feedback and attention.

As a result, she has no idea that she is, in this small, limited respect, quite literally insane.

Because everyone around her is also insane in exactly the same way.

They really cannot tell the difference between someone they have heard of and someone they personally know.

And they believe that the feelings they have about this person they imagine me to be intimacy, resentment, hatred, pity, are as real as the feelings they have about their own friends.

And it makes me wonder whether celebrity culture has sort of metastasized to fill the emptiness left by religion.

Like a malignant growth where the sacred used to be.