[lit-ideas] Re: Idiot-Proof Humor (Is: The Most Recent "New Yorker"'s Cover)
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:43 -0500
Thirteen thanks to JL for his subscripted rephrasing of my comments. I
obviously wasn't sure what I was writing about until his declarification. I'm
much more less so now.
One wonders why JL has diminished his enthusiasm of late. Surely the ominous
shadow of the brothers Andreas-Teemu hasn't darkened his outlook. Celebrate,
Bro, sing out! No more one-liners. We want the old JL back with all the
footnotes and asides and wickedness.
Mike Geary
wishing JL would correct his email settings
somewhere
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Geary
To: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Idiot-Proof Humor (Is: The Most Recent "New Yorker"'s Cover)
Thirteen thanks to JL for his subscripted rephrasing of my comments. I
obviously wasn't sure what I was writing about until his declarification. I'm
much more less so now.
One wonders why JL has diminished his enthusiasm of late. Surely the ominous
shadow of the brothers Andreas-Teemu hasn't darkened his outlook. Celebrate,
Bro, sing out! No more one-liners. We want the old JL back with all the
footnotes and asides and wickedness.
Mike Geary
somewhere
----- Original Message -----
From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx ; teemu17@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: Idiot-Proof Humor (Is: The Most Recent "New Yorker"'s Cover)
In a message dated 7/15/2008 5:08:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
That was a riff on Paul Stone's typo, not a comment on his posts, reviews
and critiques which I've always enjoyed. I'm writing this because the most
recent New Yorker's cover has made me sensitive to the fact that humor is
not always self-evident.
----
Bravo!
Let me rephrase that, using my subscript device:
"I-jmg am-jmg writing this [post] because the most recent [to date] New
Yorker's cover
-- the most recent, applied to "New Yorker", not to cover] has made me-jmg
sensitive
[in Jane Austen's sense, read, "Sense and Sensitivity" --] to the fact [if a
fact it is
indeed] that humo[u]r - as in bilis, and the other three -- is not always
[although most
of the times as far as truck stickers go] self [i.e. to the self of J. M.
Geary who has _just_
recently posted, in "I and My Shadow" to the effect -- winning Phatic, "acute
observation" --
that there is _no_ self] evident.
As in 'idiot proof'.
This is a riff on JMG, not a comment on his posts, reviews
and critiques which I've always enjoyed. I'm writing this because the most
recent New Yorker's cover has made me sensitive to the fact that humor is
not always self-evident.
Cheers,
JL
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