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But let's leave that to the kids and enjoy our happy fin de siècle with Jesse Ventura, Rudy Giuliani and his Blessed Virgin Mary, and JonBenet Ramsey (still dead, huh?)
A fin de siècle fiction issue prints stories by the country's "twenty best young fiction writers" as well as glossy portraits of them.
The third was Slate 's own Chatterbox, who argues for irony on the charmingly loopy ground that it is a fin de siècle condition, and that one corrective for the fin de siècle condition is, historically, the election of non-ironic presidents, whose ranks might include not just Al Gore and Bill Bradley but also the frightening Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes.
Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.
(Chatterbox is not so fin de siècle as to contemplate that this president would take office as Roosevelt did--succeeding a predecessor who dies in office.)