I keep thinking about how, were it not for Bob Z. telling so many of "de punches" of what AK set up, I would really know veddy
little of what motivated him.
(Actually, veddy little of him at all!)
It is important, I think, to keep things like that in mind when I'm driving myself crazy about not being able to answer "why"
Mister Andy did this or that (ie lie
about his age...)
Most people are satisfied with the answer of "Why did Mister Andy do andything?" That answer doesn't ~really~ do it for me,
because I have come to learn that
there is quite a bit of method to his particular madness; there is a logical progression of thought, and conclusions that can be
drawn through observation, once the
right questions occur. He ~wants~ something from us, there is an objective here.
But when I think of what the time was like between the daze of AK's life, and the time of Bob's bio and MOTM, I realize that...de
punch of almost ~everything~ he
did was secret: ie, Jerry Lawler, Tony Clifton, etc.
Mister Andy died thinking that no one would know andything about andything, and wonder forever, I believe. (Unless he set the
whole thing up with Bob Z, that
is.)
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It took me a while to lead up to what's on my mind, but here it is:
Is it better that Bob Z. "revealed" Andy Kaufman, and brought him to the attention of people like ~me~, who would never have
known of him otherwise?
Or...
Did Bob et. al. "taint" the Art of Mister Andy by revealing de punches which were never meant to be revealed?