16. The horror writers Hodgman alludes to are there not just for local ambiance but because he's also, in his own way, telling horror story
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17. At the heart of Vacationland is Hodgman moving from land of youth (Mass.) to land of his middle age (Maine) with mortality impending.
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18. All the erudition Hodgman displayed was deployed to help sharpen contrast of hippy, youthful Western Mass. with Gothic & solitary Maine
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19. Don't get me wrong: 95% of time in Vacationland you are laughing at Hodgman's wit. But that wit takes you to deeper place than expected
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25. Those who dismiss Hodgman don't understand type of art that achieves universal resonance only by rubbing against grit of particularity.
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26. As Marianne Moore once said, artist has to have "the courage of one's peculiarities." Hodgman has that courage.
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27. Hodgman's comedy of erudition requires a little bit more of an effort to appreciate than, say, Louis C.K.'s more universal jokes.
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28. Yet the effort to pick up Hodgman's frequency, to enter into his head-space, is more than reward, not just in laughs but in insight.
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