Pg. 670 of David Markson’s copy of The Complete Greek Drama: Volume Two by Various (Ed. Whitney J. Oates & Eugene O’Neill, Jr.):

     On which Markson placed a check in the margin of the introduction to Aristophanes’ Peace next to the sentence:
     “Where Aristophanes is happiest, there is he most candid also, and it is thus particularly gratifying to observe the truth of the further proposition that where he is happiest, there is he bawdiest also.”

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     Markson himself was known for sometimes being “bawdy.”

     As the Literary Journal said of his early novel Springer’s Progress:
     “Marvelously bawdy.”

     Or as the New York Times wrote of his even earlier novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee:
     “A bawdy, gaudy charade.”