A collection of witty essays covering a diverse range of topics, such as taking a cruise, the film maker David Lynch, and tennis. The title essay, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, finds the author becoming disillusioned with the hospitality industry after spending a week on a cruise ship and feeling compelled to be behave like a brat and have a fun time. Some of the essays are autobiographical and reveal the author's experiences as a tennis player or at a state fair.
Emerson's Essays is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 18th-century Transcendentalist. In "Self-Reliance," Emerson discusses one of his central and recurring themes of individuality, moral independence and the harmful effects of conformist society on the individual. "The Over-Soul" deals with the nature of the infinite human soul, its superiority to the ego and its relation to other souls and the divine. Other essays, such as "Politics," argue against big government and that one day humans will be virtuous enough to not require any government whatsoever.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a monograph by Sigmund Freud which codified one of his personal theories. The three essays deal with aberrant sexual desire, sexual desire in childhood and its shaping of adult sexual life, and the maturation of sexuality into a genital-focused force in adolescence. The three essays comprise a comprehensive approach to mapping and tracking the blooming of human sexuality in Freud's outdated clinical model.