Marxism a la Groucho
January 15th, 2008
Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.
– Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers (1928)
Lest you think the Marx Brothers are unphilosophical, may I direct you to Cavell on Film, and Stanley Cavell’s essay, “Nothing Goes Without Saying: Reading the Marx Brothers”?
My apologies for my silence yesterday. I was home during the snowstorm, watching the world being draped in white.
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