Hook, Line, Sinker · 23 February 2002
My old friend Leah McLaren – a newspaper columnist with an audience of one – has fallen completely for the funniest and most glaringly obvious web hoax of the past year:
The site cleverly plays on what I call the “what-she-doesn’t-know-won’t-make-her-freak-out” rationale – a favourite among deceptive obsessives the world over. Coincidence Design preys on this sort of grandiose mentality – one that is evidenced most often in men who naively pretend to themselves that in relationships, as in business and sports, the means always justify the end.
The insight! The insight!
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