I thought Heller was left with a speech impediment due to Guillain-Barré. For the most part his speech only got slightly more impaired after his attack.
@Wyatt Stephens I suppose he had speech similar to the late Art Buchwald. I read yesterday that Christopher Cross, one of my favorite artists, is getting over a Gullain-Barre condition triggered by Covid. I got MS about 20 years after reading "No Laughing Matter." My doctor first thought I had Gullain-Barre. TMI.
@@davidwise3426 Just checked: Heller, Buchwald, and Cerf are all from New York and are all Jewish. The parents of at least two of them (I immediately forgot which two) were immigrants. I’m going with the accent theory.
Genius.
Nice Stuff....great insight from the Author of a great Novel.
Makes me wish Thomas Pynchon would of done the same with his 3 early novels.
I thought Heller was left with a speech impediment due to Guillain-Barré. For the most part his speech only got slightly more impaired after his attack.
@Wyatt Stephens I suppose he had speech similar to the late Art Buchwald. I read yesterday that Christopher Cross, one of my favorite artists, is getting over a Gullain-Barre condition triggered by Covid. I got MS about 20 years after reading "No Laughing Matter." My doctor first thought I had Gullain-Barre. TMI.
Heller’s manner of speech reminds me of Bennett Cerf. I assumed it a regional accent.
@@davidwise3426 Just checked: Heller, Buchwald, and Cerf are all from New York and are all Jewish. The parents of at least two of them (I immediately forgot which two) were immigrants. I’m going with the accent theory.