“Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.”
Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=601 of Norbit (2007).
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“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”
Source: A Lion Among Men
“A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.”
Ordinary Men and Women
Naked Lunch (1959)
Context: The end result of complete cellular representation is cancer. Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. (A cooperative on the other hand can live without the state. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit. A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.) Bureaucracy is wrong as a cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action to the complete parasitism of a virus. (It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another — the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter.) Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host.
Pouf Positive
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University, April 3, 2003 (as reported in the Brown Daily Herald
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
“Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.”
Book I, ch. 12.
Discourses
Recalling a conversation with unidentified generals at the Pentagon "about ten days after 9/11" (circa September 21, 2001).
Real Time with Bill Maher [2.22] (episode 42), October 29, 2004; panel discussion with Maher, Kevin Costner, and Richard Belzer.
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.”
Vol. I, ch. 1, p. 15
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept