My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7 1943) is an American literary critic theorist and scholar. He is also co-founder of the literary-cultural journal Representations which often publiStephen Greenblatts articles by new historicists.