The Clerk, The Girl And The Corduroy Hand Job

December, 1998

Sad, isn't it?" Kevin Smith says, grinning. A bit dazed, I can only nod.In my hands is Chronic Odyssey of the Anachronistic Enigma, the first of two bursting scrapbooks of notes, rejection letters, scripts, vital statistics, pictures and report cards---in fact, seemingly everything except the foreskin from his circumcision---that the director of Clerks collected during his youth. "I've got trunkfuls of the stuff," he says matter-of-factly. Never let it be said that Smith is afraid...