What’s the funniest question you’ve ever heard in an interview?
That question pre-supposes I’ve done a lot of interviews. Mostly I try to keep my yap shut. What’s the kind of question that you’d like to answer? Not that one. I’ve got six albums: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Kris Kristofferson, George Thorogood, Tina Turner, or Simon and Garfunkel? Simon and Garfunkel. I know that you work with antiquated words and phraseologies and that you have a lot of dictionaries at your house. Where does this love for words come from? When I began to study German, I started to realize that English has a lot of words. One can theoretically learn every German word. That’s not the case with English, whose vocabulary is seemingly infinite. Because I have no interest in verisimilitude or realism, this frees me up to use all manner of non-standard English. If you’re trying to faithfully reproduce everyday English, and there are perfectly good reasons to do so, then you’re restricted in the vocabulary that’s available to you. Not everyone knows that you’re a “recov
