Briefly, due to Darth Real Life

[selenak]

An excellent interview with Dorothy Parker, in which I think she's unerestimating herself a couple of times, with wonderful eloquence belying the very point she's making, as when she denies being a wit and says she's only a wisecrack and adds: There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

And speaking of witty: George Bernard Shaw declaring war on ridiculous hats, as a young critic after a visit to the opera.