9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 05, 2008
October 04, 2008
October 06, 2008
Transcript:
"I've always wanted to ask, Monty...If you created humankind in your own image, where is the uniformity? Why is there so much grotesque variation?" "Well, my design was a rough Gestalt sort of thing. The details are the work of Stan." "Stan?" "Mephistopheles, but he prefers to be called Stan. He specializes in caricature...Big noses, potbellies, comb-overs...the extremes." "I'm an engineer...STructure, purpose, balance...Those are my fortes." "So you're saying the prince of darkness is a cartoonist?" "More of a wannabe." "That explains a lot." "Doesn't it, though?"
