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The Imagination Has Resources And Intimations We Don't Even Know About.

Comedy Springs From The Ludicrous; But The Ludicrous Is Stuck In The Muck Of Reality, Resolutely Hostile To What Is Impossible.

It Is Useless Either To Hate Or To Love Truth - But It Should Be Noticed.

To Be Any Sort Of Competent Writer One Must Keep One's Psychological Distance From The Supreme Artists.

If Ideas Are What Feed Serious Literature And Arresting Language, Who Today Is Writing A Novel Of Ideas (which Can Often Mean Comedy)? I Think Of Joshua Cohen. Who Else?