I stop Faulkner, ask what a maggot feels like when he holds it in his hand. "If it’s a blowfly maggot and it’s alive, it feels pretty sturdy. They’re resilient. They are soft. They’re not warm.”
May 17, 1990
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David Faulkner, San Diego Natural History Museum’s entomologist, solves crimes
Aldous Huxley on El Greco, Jean Genet on Rembrandt, Kenneth Rexroth on Turner, Joyce Carol Oates on Winslow Homer,
As a teenager, I dismissed adults’ dismissal of the new with the thought that these grown-ups (who also hated Elvis and despised Jerry Lee) merely preferred elevator music for canvas, eye Muzak.
May 17, 1990
Ozzie Dean, psychologist, teacher, and comedian: "I just flew in from Algeria and ..."
Humor is a funny thing. What is the appeal, exactly, of standing before a room full of strangers, risking humiliation for the sake of “evoking an expulsion of air from the lungs” of your audience, …
May 17, 1990