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The Strange & the Ordinary; or, Why People Like
Mystery Stories
By Eli Siegel
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One of the things that the mystery story has done is to make every object important. Since you can't find this villain without knowing what the oatmeal is doing there, naturally this is great day for oatmeal. There is a terrific audience for the TV mystery. The desire to see what is wrong, what is terrifying, goes on. And there is suspense--that moment between what is good and what is bad, what is known and what is not known."
Do You Think You Deserve to Be Trusted?
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
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A crucial area as to trust is this: when you say you want someone to be happy, do you mean it, or are you putting on a show?" --
Eli Siegel
For & Against in Louis Prima's "Just a Gigolo"
By Michael Palmer
"Prima is satirizing himself. Meanwhile, he does it in such an outward way, accompanied by such a lively beat, that we feel energized, not depressed."
