http://www.metafilter.com/tags/affectedprovincial Posts tagged with 'affectedprovincial' at MetaFilter. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:15:25 -0800 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:15:25 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69055/What%2Dis%2Dan%2Daffected%2Dprovincial Are you an <a href="http://lord-whimsy.livejournal.com/tag/affected+provincial%27s+companion">affected provincial ?</a> "Affected Provincialism can take many forms, but personally I prefer borrowing heavily from the combined qualities of the naturalist, philomath, dandy and aesthete. Independence, liberality, optimism, playfulness, curiosity, lightness, and generosity are integral to Affected Provincialism; it's modeled loosely on the idea of the eighteenth-century gentleman amateur, as wrongly imagined by a twenty-first-century twit." <a href="http://lord-whimsy.livejournal.com/">via</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69055 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:15:25 -0800 affectedprovincial lordwhimsy vronsky