Comments on: Not Me http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/22/not-me/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bad Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/22/not-me/comment-page-1/#comment-47493 bad Jim Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:27:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2402#comment-47493 Lacking anything original, permit me to paste an orthogonal <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026">comment</a> from Garry Wills on Gibson's Passion: <blockquote>My wife and I had to stop glancing furtively at each other for fear we would burst out laughing. It had gone beyond sadism into the comic surreal, like an apocalyptic version of Swinburne's The Whipping Papers.</blockquote> It appears that the dread Ann Coulter was not entirely effectively given the pie treatment in what would have been last night for most of you had you not been more clockwardly distributed around the globe than left coast Americans. Lacking anything original, permit me to paste an orthogonal comment from Garry Wills on Gibson’s Passion:
My wife and I had to stop glancing furtively at each other for fear we would burst out laughing. It had gone beyond sadism into the comic surreal, like an apocalyptic version of Swinburne’s The Whipping Papers.
It appears that the dread Ann Coulter was not entirely effectively given the pie treatment in what would have been last night for most of you had you not been more clockwardly distributed around the globe than left coast Americans.

]]> By: PG http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/22/not-me/comment-page-1/#comment-47492 PG Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:27:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2402#comment-47492 I suppose that we should have seen <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2004/03/passion-less-when-i-first-heard-about.html">The</a> Passion <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2004/04/and-if-that-image-offend-thee-plunging.html">of</a> the <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2004/04/this-is-news-because.html">Christ</a> <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2004/09/targeted-marketing-its-beautiful-thing.html">coming</a> from a bit farther back, then. I suppose that we should have seen The Passion of the Christ coming from a bit farther back, then.

]]> By: asg http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/22/not-me/comment-page-1/#comment-47491 asg Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:33:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2402#comment-47491 Tim Carvell's always funny. Tim Carvell’s always funny.

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