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They shouldn&#8217;t be doing that.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Where&#8217;s the box to tick if you ARE a robot?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>My mother used to say Manners Maketh the Man, but I didn&#8217;t think it was very mannerly of her to make fun of my lisp.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne. Men who have searched for meaning with, let&#8217;s face it, mixed results. Whither the one who can solve it? Cometh the hour, cometh the Ayoade. He brings wisdom distilled from a life lived in relentless pursuit of Truth.<\/p>\n<p><i>Afterthoughts<\/i> goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV detectives need a gimmick. Mine would be not caring who did it. If, when one door shuts, another door opens, there&#8217;s something wrong with your doors. They shouldn&#8217;t be doing that. 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Wisdom distilled from a life lived in relentless pursuit of Truth. &#8216;Afterthoughts&#8217; goes beyond rumination, past pondering, probing further than ever before, drawing from a deeply private pool of questions: a reservoir so refreshing you may never need to think again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[343],"product_tag":[7102],"class_list":{"0":"post-112309","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-classics-plays-poetry","6":"product_tag-jokes-riddles","7":"pa_book_author-ayoade-richard","8":"pa_cover-hardback","9":"pa_dewey-102-07-edition23","10":"pa_imprint-faber-faber","11":"pa_language-english","12":"pa_pages-8436","13":"pa_publisher-faber-faber","14":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","16":"first","17":"onbackorder","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afterthoughts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Richard Ayoade has set down his most enormous thoughts for the benefit of all those who dare read them. 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