Sublime

You too will be able to take a subject, any subject, and hype it to the point where it bears no resemblance to reality. Whomever you write about will never be able to live up to what you write about him, but never mind. The important thing is that people will talk about YOUR STORY. They will talk about it for years.

the kreplach joke

makes Jewish literature into a kind of anti-literature—one that should make everyone question what they want out of a work of literary art.