Parody is homage gone sour.

About Brendan Gill

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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

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If it were better, it wouldn’t be as good.

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Parody is homage gone sour.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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