Significant Moments: The Jokester

Oh, that is my salvation, this ability to convert the most serious of things into nonsense in a flash—it has always kept me from going over the brink. Thus, for example, in the midst of my composing today, I . . .
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (Tuesday, August 6, 1878).
. . . found it quite impossible to compose . . .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities.
. . . a single modulation or turn.
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (Friday, April 12, 1878).
He took up his pen several times and laid it down again because he could not make up his mind what he ought to . . .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities.
. . . write and . . .
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
. . . rose up and wandered . . .
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
. . . through the rooms and now and again . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Tuesday, October 3, 1882).
. . . wrote . . .
Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography. 1907-1910.
. . . down a joke . . .
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Tuesday, October 3, 1882).
. . . but was . . .
Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography. 1907-1910.
. . .indisposed.
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To The U.S. Department of Justice:

I was recently reviewing one of my word processor disks that contained documents I prepared in the 1990s. In the 1990s I had the practice of jotting down, for my own amusement, parodies of conversations from the TV sitcom Seinfeld. One of the parodies refers to xxxxx xxxxxxx. The reference is a private one, not made for publication and was written in the 1990s -- in 1996 or later.

GARY FREEDMAN

202 362 7064

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