He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive...
-James Agee, On deadpan comedian Buster Keaton, Comedy's Greatest Era reprinted in Life, Fall 1986
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