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Jul. 13th, 2010 12:58 amPenn & Teller have an interview in the Telegraph, where Penn quotes Jerry Seinfeld this way:
The lesson from this, fannishly, is that obviously Seinfeld knows D. West.
Seriously. That quote sums up D's career comprehensively. It's why I regard D so boring as to be a, "He puts whole nations to sleep," kind of writer (originally Harlan talking about Wagner) -- because you always know what the punchline is going to be.
“Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.”
Yup. Seinfeld has saved all of fandom from ever having to read a D. West cartoon or article ever again. It'll only be repetition from here on out.
I said something similar to Victor Gonzalez at this past Potlatch. Victor took great umbrage -- mostly, I suspect, because he read D at an impressionable time, before he knew better. Heck, I was there when Victor met D, during a jaunt to outer Yorkshire especially for the purpose right after the Leeds Corflu.
At Potlatch, though, Victor stiffened and said, "He's a better writer than you!"
Which has no bearing whatsoever on D's merits, but as I told Victor at the time, "Victor, everyone in this room is a better writer than I am. If that's your standard, it's very low."
"(Penn) couldn’t care less what (magicians) think. “I have always hated magic,” he says. “I have always hated the basic undercurrent of magic which Jerry Seinfeld put best when he said: 'All magic is “Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over”.’ I never wanted to grow up to be a magician. It was never my goal.”"
The lesson from this, fannishly, is that obviously Seinfeld knows D. West.
Seriously. That quote sums up D's career comprehensively. It's why I regard D so boring as to be a, "He puts whole nations to sleep," kind of writer (originally Harlan talking about Wagner) -- because you always know what the punchline is going to be.
“Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.”
Yup. Seinfeld has saved all of fandom from ever having to read a D. West cartoon or article ever again. It'll only be repetition from here on out.
I said something similar to Victor Gonzalez at this past Potlatch. Victor took great umbrage -- mostly, I suspect, because he read D at an impressionable time, before he knew better. Heck, I was there when Victor met D, during a jaunt to outer Yorkshire especially for the purpose right after the Leeds Corflu.
At Potlatch, though, Victor stiffened and said, "He's a better writer than you!"
Which has no bearing whatsoever on D's merits, but as I told Victor at the time, "Victor, everyone in this room is a better writer than I am. If that's your standard, it's very low."
Great Expectations (liza, maggy, nomi)
May. 22nd, 2009 12:18 amGreat Expectations, Chapter XLIV
"Nonsense," she returned,—"nonsense. This will pass in no time."
"Never, Estella!"
"You will get me out of your thoughts in a week."
"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,—on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
"Nonsense," she returned,—"nonsense. This will pass in no time."
"Never, Estella!"
"You will get me out of your thoughts in a week."
"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,—on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
