Precisely -- because saying that something is "self-consciously pretentious"
could itself be considered to be self-consciously pretentious!
It's *extremely* funny that you used the phrase "self-consciously
pretentious".
Lamadoo
William Sommerwerck wrote:
> It's not a good photo. It's a self-consciously pretentious attempt to give
> philosophical or metaphysical weight to a physical object.
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