Friday, March 07, 2008

Of Entertainments Humanist and Satirical

Watching Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man recently, I had the same feeling as when I read Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk:

I was extremely impressed, but had the uneasy feeling that this was the product (or, indeed, the by-product) of an adept masturbator.

Would that I could say I meant this with respect.