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01 / evaluation
“Yes, Saskatchewan isn’t very funny. And Canadians used to read a lot of poetry because we didn’t have a viable novel-publishing business, or a film industry, or a music industry.”
02 / evaluation
“It depends on what part of Canada you’re in. I think the further west you go, the less of a sense of humor they have.”
03 / evaluation
“Governments, churches, unions, they were all saying to him privately, “You’re doing a great job.” But they weren’t saying anything because they were frightened.”
04 / evaluation
“The town fathers, when it first started — or the town citizens — looked at it askance because it was artistic, don’t you know?”
05 / evaluation
“After a while, you don’t get influenced because your brain has turned to cement.”
06 / evaluation
““The Robber Bridegroom” — I wrote a book called The Robber Bride, which takes a similar type of motif but flips it. They’re infinitely suggestive — these folktales, fairy tales, legends, and myths — because we don’t really know what they mean.”