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Besides Chuck Jones -- how about nominating another novelist, esp.
considering his rather profound debt to Twain-- I mean, of course, Kurt
Vonnegut. Certainly, Vonnegut is not nearly as "funny" as he seemed to be
during, say, the Nixon era. Still, the guy is generally and consistently a
gas, and the Twain-Vonnegut connection is really quite pronounced.
I just re-read Tom Sawyer last week -- and noticed the many times that
Twain writes, "And so on" or "And so forth" -- this stylistic feature
really reminded me of Vonnegut's (sometimes overused) reliance on the same
thing.
By the way -- "Take the Money and Run" was shown here last night on PBS --
remember how funny Woody Allen was back in the (post)Nixon era??
Dr. Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Saint Louis University
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