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I’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ben Katchor

To sell papers, they put color comics in. It’s worked, up until now. Now these papers can’t afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.
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Afford Comics Minuscule People Probably Worked
How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn’t even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it’s how we’re living. It’s this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It’s a great time.
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Anything Anyway Evoke Nobody Past
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
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Born Call Cougars
The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
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Light Rooms Technology
A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement. It’s more like if you did an illuminated novel.
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Running Stories Thinking
You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what’s going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.
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Good Knowing Luck Needs
I’m very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
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Music Sound Western
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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Clock Strange Watches
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I’d probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that’s why I like public clocks.
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Doubt Dying People
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don’t fall asleep.
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Fall Interesting Levels
Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.
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Female Goats Mood
A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement.
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Movement Running Stories
I’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
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Religious Spiritual Years
I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That’s just what interests me.
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Blast Dense Easier Interested Thing
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
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Appreciation Thinking War
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn’t been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
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Apartment Building Feels

I’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

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