R.Crumb

There's a great interview with R. Crumb on the Vanity Fair website about his new comic book (The Book of Genesis Illustrated). I loved this:

I guess plot holes weren’t such a big deal when the Old Testament was being written.

When they originally told those stories, that wasn't how their minds worked. They weren't as nitpicky as we are. The American Indians have these great creation stories about the origins of the earth, and they don’t hold up to a lot of questions. They had this one great story about the rabbit and the fox who were living in the void and they decided they wanted some land to stand on so blah blah blah. The anthropologist hears this and asks, “Well, where did the rabbit and the fox come from?” And the Indian says, “I don't know, doc. Do you want to hear the fucking story or not?”