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...Crimson recently talked to Christopher Cerf '63, former member of the Harvard Lampoon and co-author of The Book of Sequels. The following are excerpts from that conversation...
...board got into pop culture-rock 'n' roll, movies, cartoons. There was a turn toward absurd comedy, real silliness. We'd grown up seeing Mad Magazine and saw no difference between writing a poem and a rock 'n' roll parody. So we did both," Cerf adds...
...Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky; Pantheon; 352 pages...
...look it up. For those who still accept without question the hokum that too often issues from the mouths of eminent personages, Christopher Cerf, co-conspirator in such truly dangerous works of spoofery as Not the New York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided weekly, The Nation, has collected more than 2,000 of these gems of misplaced certitude. "We can say with some confidence," they say with supreme confidence, "that the experts are wrong without regard to race, creed, color, sex, discipline, specialty, country, culture or century...
...start questioning authority. A reader may even suspect that his opinion is worth just as much as that of any horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -By Donald Morrison