In The Strange Heat All

People Have Been Modeling Their Lives After Films For Years, But The Medium Is Somehow Unsuited To Moral Lessons, Cautionary Tales Or Polemics Of Any Kind.

Did I Throw The Most Important Thing Perhaps, By Accident, Away?

That 'writers Write' Is Meant To Be Self-evident. People Like To Say It. I Find It Is Hardly Ever True. Writers Drink. Writers Rant. Writers Phone. Writers Sleep. I Have Met Very Few Writers Who Write At All.

Most Movies Are Not Very Good. Most People Know It And Like To See Them Anyway.

A Favorite Strategy Was The Paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed Immediately By Wrong. This Linear Invitation To A Mugging Was Considered A Strategy Of Wit.