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23 Mar 2022 Conversations with Tyler Lydia Davis on Language and Literature
“Oh, yes, absolutely. I don’t know, did Conrad have a great sense of humor? It depends who you think is great in the first place.”
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- Lydia Davis
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- uncertainty
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- 23 Mar 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Are there any great writers who don’t have a great sense of humor? Oh, yes, absolutely. I don’t know, did Conrad have a great sense of humor? It depends who you think is great in the first place. Maybe we are leaving Conrad for certain other reasons, but he was one I was reading recently. I don’t detect much of a sense of humor there, but I do in Beckett and Proust. People usually don’t think of Proust as very funny, but he’s quite funny. If one reads Conrad, for instance, there’s a thickness to the language. You have to cut through it with a machete.…
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