1. A few thoughts on Robin Williams -- not his death but his life. His legacy.
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3. There are artists whose power is that they are universal: they remind us of ourselves. That wasn't Williams or Foster Wallace.
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4. Williams and Foster Wallace had alien minds: they thought quicker than we did and could make us share in their alien perspective.
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5. Williams had a hyper-link mind before hyper-link was invented. He could free-associate faster than you can google.
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6. Williams was perhaps the only person in history who snorted cocaine in order to slow down the speed of his mind.
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7. He had his highs and his lows. We gloried in highs but could never share in the depths of those lows.
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8. Williams stand-up persona came at a particular moment in the history of comedy: post-Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Tomlin, Richard Pryor
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9. Just as Joyce wasn't just a novelist but really all novelists rolled into one, Williams was all stand-up comedians in one body.
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10. Williams absorbed Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Tomlin, Pryor and many more. On stage he shifted from one influence to another lightening fast
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11. As a meta-comedian perhaps Williams biggest influence was the TV remote control: he replicated the ever-shifting screen.
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12. Aside from his debt to Jonathan Winters, Tomlin, etc., Robin Williams was also the spawn of Chuck Jones & Mel Blanc.
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13. The protean nature of animation -- it's speed and quick comedic cuts -- that's what Williams tried to mimic.
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