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INTERVIEWER
Perhaps you would talk about the incongruity that turns up so often in your use of language.
PERELMAN
And then perhaps I would not. Writers who pontificate about their own use of language drive me right up the wall. I’ve discovered that this is an occupational disease of those ladies with three-barreled names one meets at the Authors’ League, the PEN Club, and so forth. In what spare time I have, I read the expert opinions of V. S. Pritchett and Edmund Wilson, who are to my mind the best-qualified authorities on the written English language. Vaporizing about one’s own stylistic intricacies strikes me as being visceral, and, to be blunt, inexcusable.
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| William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, V. S. Pritchett, James Thurber, George Ade, F. Anstey, Robert Benchley, Raymond Chandler, G. K. Chesterton, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, Stephen Leacock, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Ogden Nash, Robert Riskin, Donald Ogden Stewart, Frank Sullivan, David Susskind, Nathanael West, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Wilson |
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