Best Quote Of All Time

There is an amazing part of the article on mass-observation that we talked about on this week's show. At one point, Crain quotes Humphrey Jennings, one of the three founders of the movement, as writing home to his wife: "My balls feel as quiet & rich as the paintings of Poussin in exile."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Amazing.

It reminded me of a quote I read in an article on archives in The Believer. It is from a letter written by Hemingway to Ezra Pound.

"To me bulls ain’t exotic. They are normal. And such a goddam relief from all this horseshit about Art etc […] To hell with delicate studies of the American scene. Fuck the American scene. Fuck moers [sic], manners, customs all that horse shit. Let us have more and better fucking, fighting and bulls.”

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA TIMES A MILLION! Perhaps the most New Sincerity utterance of ALL TIME.

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