Overrated?

[Daniel Julius]

Wow, that was annoying



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

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> LeWitt is overrated. In fact,
> he may be a candidate for the academy.
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> Right!
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> Mary and I have invented the Academy
> of the Overrated for such notables as
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> - Gustav Mahler,
> - Isak Dinesen and Carl Jung.
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> - Scott Fitzgerald.
> - Lenny Bruce. Can't forget him, can we?
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> - How about Norman Mailer?
> - I think those people are all terrific.
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> - Who was that guy you had?
> - I didn't. It was yours. Heinrich Bol.
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> - Overrated?
> - Don't wanna leave out Heinrich.
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> Gee, what about Mozart?
> You guys don't wanna leave out Mozart. While you're trashing people.
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> - Well, how about Vincent Van Goch?
> - She said "Van Goch"?!
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> - Or Ingmar Bergman?
> - You'll get in trouble.
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> Bergman? Bergman's the only genius
> in cinema today, I think.
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> He's a big Bergman fan.
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> God, you're so the opposite.
> You write that fabulous television show.
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> It's so funny and
> his view is so Scandinavian.
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> It's bleak, my God.
> I mean, all that Kierkegaard, right?
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> Real adolescent, fashionable pessimism.
> I mean, the silence. God's silence.
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> OK, OK, OK. I mean, I loved it when I was
> at Radcliffe, but, all right, you outgrow it.
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> Get her away from me. I don't think
> I can take too much more of her.
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> - She's really a cr...
> - No. Don't you guys see?
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> It is the dignifying of one's
> psychological and sexual hang-ups
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> by attaching them to these
> grandiose, philosophical issues?
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> - Here we are.
> - Listen, it was very nice meeting you.
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> It was a pleasure
> and a sincere sensation,
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> but we have to go.
> We gotta do some shopping. I forgot.
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> Hey, listen, I don't even
> wanna have this conversation.
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> I'm just from Philadelphia, you know.
> I mean, we believe in God so... OK?
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