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Thread #56594   Message #886911
Posted By: Sam L
10-Feb-03 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Garrison Keillor the bad singer who ..
Subject: RE: Garrison Keillor the bad singer who ..
No, you've mistaken me. I very much like his humour, it doesn't get past me. And much of his humour is sex-funny. He wasn't talking about that. But you'd have to hear the interview--he was explaining how erotic writing very much affected him as a young reader, imprinted him, even, but he never pursued writing anything like that himself. But he may have been simply trying to guess why he never did, sure. Maybe it just sounded sad because the thing about a woman laughing in bed is a fairly lame joke.
   But I do think a very deep understanding of insecurity and an ability to laugh about it has a lot to do with some veins of his humour. Or else we're talking about different Keillors entirely.