I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
David AntinI reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
David AntinYou pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
David AntinWhen you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
David Antin