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The Serious Trivial

The inversion of importance whereby social trifles demand grave attention while life's weightiest matters receive only frivolous treatment.

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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People cover

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Wilde, Oscar

Two bachelors invent fictional alter egos to escape social obligations, only to have their deceptions collide when both pursue women obsessed with the name Ernest—culminating in the absurd revelation that one suitor's fabricated identity was his true name all along.

The Serious Trivial 19 min