"How silly (versus insufferable) you find this interaction could illuminate what your response to Stillman movies might be."
Which reminds me of the time when I saw Metropolitan with friends and found this line hysterically funny and they did not: "I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author."
"How silly (versus insufferable) you find this interaction could illuminate what your response to Stillman movies might be."
Which reminds me of the time when I saw Metropolitan with friends and found this line hysterically funny and they did not: "I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author."