The Humor of Steven Wright

If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen ... and replaced by exact duplicates" .. all over the Internet on crappy little websites.

So the eMail goes - as do many websites passing this off as content. Like us.

Steven Wright's dry wit, reminiscent of a 21st-century Mark Twain, is the most popular, most circulated, text humor doing the email rounds. His every shrewd message evokes jealousy - "If I could devise just ONE smart remark like that in my entire, pathetic life..."

It springs from where? A deep well, a strong, centered will to stand aside from the consensus beguiling us lesser, compliant, fickle souls.

"It's just ... it's like everyone is caught up in a raging river, in rapids ... the call-waiting and the faxes. And I try to get out of the river sometimes, try to grab a branch on the shore ... but I can only do it sometimes. I think it's too fast."

".. the speed causes more commotion. It's removing the moment..."

"Honestly," he told me, "I feel like I'm from Vermont in the 1870s ... and for some reason they let me drive." Time Out New York June - Greg Emmanuel

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