seems like shtick...

photo caption: Roadside restaurant, carr 167 south, between El Ocho and Narranjito, PR


"Although of course..."
David Lipsky's five days with
David Foster Wallace
March 5-10, 1996

p. 165

DL: Let's go over some directors: Woody Allen.

DFW: Never much liked Woody Allen.

DL: Why not?

DFW: Dunno. I think part of it that, when I was at Amherst -- I mean I'd never really heard of him. But I remember seein' Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex, and bein' real excited, 'cause I thought it was going to be real sexy. And then not. So, on the East Coast he was so trendy. And I'd heard so much about him before I ever saw him? I also think -- I don't think is humor's all tha tsubtle, it seems like a shtick to me. But I know like I've got really smart friends from New York, who just think he's an absolute genius. It's sort of...

 

 


Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

 

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