I Love The Laconic. Clearly, I Am

People Have Been Modeling Their Lives After Films For Years, But The Medium Is Somehow Unsuited To Moral Lessons, Cautionary Tales Or Polemics Of Any Kind.

Most Movies Are Not Very Good. Most People Know It And Like To See Them Anyway.

The Radical Intelligence In The Moderate Position Is The Only Place Where The Center Holds. Or So It Seems.

My Dislike Has No Consequences. It Accrues Only In My Mind—like Preserves On A Shelf Or Guns Zeroing In, And Never Firing.

The Writer Has A Grudge Against Society, Which He Documents With Accounts Of Unsatisfying Sex, Unrealized Ambition, Unmitigated Loneliness, And A Sense Of Local And Global Distress.