Mick and Keith and Thomas

[Dave Monroe]

This is how I feel about comic books, esp. since The
Watchmen, no matter how much more sophisticated the
art and writing and printing technologies have become
(though there's just as much crap as ever as well),
they're just not good like when I was a kid.  And I'm
right, dammit ...

Cf. 70s UHF evening/weekend television vs. "classic"
movies on cable.  When's the last time you saw a Henry
Aldrich film every Friday night (followed by soem
Republic serial or another), a Toho monster film every
Saturday night, a Ma and Pa Kettle and/or Blondie
every Sunday morning, or a Swede made up as a Chinaman
(sic) every Sunday afternoon? Sgt. Preston of the
Yukon? The Bowery Boys?  Huh?  Huh?  Okay, then ...

--- Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
 
> There you go again, hinting at the elephant in the
> room: that we're just-so-many years older than
> when we first read any touchstone book of our
> lives. Not everyone cultivates the fractals:
> sometimes "Pynchon hasn't done anything that good
> since" says little more than "Damn, I wish a new
book
> would thrill me the way GR did back in the day."

But there's one for the quotable quotes books/sites
...
 
> Listen to Enzian: "A former self is a fool, an
> insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no
more
> turn him out than you'd turn out any other kind
> of cripple, would you?"

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