Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[Monte Davis]

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

>Bob Dylan's comment, [members of the press asking him if he was more 
>of  a lyricist or a musician] "I tend to think of myself more as a song and
>dance man"... The man will do just about anything 
>to get a laugh
>
c. 1970 an earnest journalist asked R. Crumb  (I think w/r/t Incest 
Comix) a long, earnest question along the lines of  "Did you intend the 
story's shock value to provoke an examination of the tacit patriarchal 
value system and nuclear-family stereotypes, which distort...[etc etc etc]?"

Crumb: "I think I was just being a punk."