Timothy Crouch


martial bliss

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I find the frequently-seen typo of “martial” for “marital” very funny on its own. (If — per Michael Pollan — gardening is war, can marriage be, too?) When, as in a newsletter I read this morning, the context is “how to keep your marriage from descending into conflict when you have kids,” the resulting phrase “martial happiness” acquires a new layer of self-referential comedic brilliance.