Sunday, March 13, 2011


AMo''Sh and Dereau, friends since college, two true Jews---Dereau says if our achetypes of character could be translated into the world of the classic cinematic masterpiece A Serious Man, Dereau would be the clinically patient and ironically "deferential" Prof. Lawrence "Larry" Gopnik and I would be Sy Abelman, the absurdly patronizing and chutzpatically therapist-like, casually dressed, yet linguistically high culture-poseur sleeping with his wife. Of course, I would never sleep with another man's wife---even if I had split personality disorder I would not sleep with the wives of my other selves...
-Wu Dao Kou, Beijing, China, February 2011