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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“I think my wife just rolls her eyes because if there’s the W. C. Fields movie on, I’ll watch it till the end.”
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- Dana Gioia
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- 7 Apr 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…The Bank Dick is a great movie. I think my wife just rolls her eyes because if there’s the W. C. Fields movie on, I’ll watch it till the end. It was the one — It’s a gift, where he’s trying to sleep on the balcony and the salesman goes, “Isn’t Carl Lefong here? Capital L, small e, capital F, small o, small n, and small g. W. C. Fields milks that thing for about five minutes and it’s wonderful, but I didn’t understand when I was young that both Laurel and Hardy and W. C. Fields, the fundamental comic idea under them, is how thwarted we are getting through the ordinary business of our day. When I was young I just saw the jokes, the slapdash elements of it, but now I understand there’s an existential humor under this where W. C. Fields can’t get a cup of coffee without trouble, can’t take a nap without trouble. Which is the most underrated art museum in the world?…
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