Tuesday, January 17, 2017
MYSTIFICATION
Look, here's the thing. I have already written about mystification. What I have to say can be found in Chapters Two and Three of Moneybags Must Be So Lucky. Speaking without a smidgen of false modesty, I will say that I think that little book is, pound for pound, the best thing I have ever written. It is readily available with four mouse clicks: First, a click on the link to box.net, then a click to get to Archived Essays and Tutorials, then a click to get to page two of the listed items, and finally a click to open the .pdf file of the entire little book. It is really, really good. If you are interested in mystification, take a look. To make the medicine go down easier, by the way, I open Chapter Three with an old Jewish joke about Mrs. Feinschmeck's blintzes. It is an easy read, as these things go.
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I grew up with the 'kreplach' version. As a joke it works best aurally (a sudden cry of fear is startling) and 'kreplach' is a funnier word.
I was reaching for a goyische audience.
Oh, thank you Professor. I didn't realize "Moneybags Must Be So Lucky" was on box.net!
The preponderance of the jokes in "Plato and a Platypus" are Jewish. Must be because Jewish jokes are more likely to be philosophical. Danny was afraid we were going to look like the website, "Old Jews Telling Jokes." So we "goyicized" some of them. Schmuel became Bob. Goldschmidt became Taylor. But the Jewish audience knew, and we got invited twice to the Jewish Book Congress, resulting in multiple invitations to speak at Jewish Community Centers around the country.
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