What goes around comes around

 

The much under-appreciated Max Shulman wrote a hilarious guide called “How to Be a Writer.” In it he included some of the tools professional writers use to achieve their literary effects. He had a whole section on flashbacks, of which he defined multiple types. This is one of the ones he called a ‘telescoping flashback.’ A character in the story remembers a story he heard in the past from another character, who also remembers a story he heard in his past… 

This is in response to the thoughtful attention you’ve been giving to the ugly revival of antisemitism among our supposedly tolerant Progressive delusionaries. I published this post at Instapunk Returns back in March of 2019: I Knew This Time of Fevered Hatred Would Come. My purpose was to link another post I had written at the original Instapunk blog in January 2007 when the Antichrist was still in the White House. [Oops. This might be a double-telescoping flashback in Shulmanese. Or even a triple…

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The telescoping flashback I started with here is one I still stand behind. Twenty years and more than that later. The more things change…

Thought maybe you could use a laugh about now too.