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Parody is homage gone sour.

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

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

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.

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

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

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.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.