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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
December 06, 2007
Dennis writes here after returning from the Indianapolis funeral of his sister-in-law, murdered last week. Dennis' wife Nan delivers her own eulogy here.
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at December 6, 2007 12:24 PMCondolences. That's really rough.
Posted by: Batocchio at December 6, 2007 03:43 PMFeel a little hesitant commenting about such personal grief. But the pain in Dennis's words is so obvious it's hard to just sit there and say nothing.
There is no such thing as collective grief.
It's always personal.
None of my loved ones perished on 9/11 (though acquaintances did) but when I hear people talk about "our national pain on 9/11," I think "what a load of crap." There were those who died and their relatives and friends, for whom it was an unfathomable tragedy. And then there were the others. A world of difference.
The scariest part is, as Dennis hints, how much alone we are in the end. I think of his brother and nephew. Grief is always lonely. Maybe it is the purpose of life to try and make it less so. Or, as Dennis puts it so much more eloquently:
>> All I can do is show my love and support and trust that it reaches them.
Posted by: Bernard Chazelle at December 6, 2007 05:26 PM
