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Open Thread: Ten Pages a Year

by: Dean Barker

Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 06:53:36 AM EST
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Open Thread: Ten Pages a Year | 4 comments
America's black hole of rational thought strikes again. (4.00 / 1)
We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

Yes, Governor Palin, it is ironic on several levels. Thanks for the tip.

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"Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given to you." -Aaron Sorkin

Frost enjoyed creating his persona, I think - (4.00 / 1)
Is it an American phenomenon? The careful construction of the celebrity arts persona?

We debated a few weeks ago whether J.D. Salinger's famous reclusiveness was part of that. (I don't think it was.)

But look at these personae, so well-developed they could almost play a card game with the real persons behind them:

  • Ben Franklin. Did he invent the form? If he were around now he would surely claim that.
  • Walt Whitman. Do I recall that he wrote, under other names, reviews of Walt Whitman's latest book? Duality was no challenge; he contained multitudes.
  • Mark Twain. Here we have the logical next step: Samuel Clemens gave his persona a name of its own. I wonder if Clemens wore white suits on his own time?
  • Ernest Hemingway.There was no artifice here. Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?

There are dozens more.

Or is it that America demands these creations?

All the world's a stage, I guess. n/t (0.00 / 0)

[ Parent ]
Whatever you do, (0.00 / 0)
don't suffer the little children or anything.

Where it the Roman Catholicism I grew up on?  Who took away those champions of social justice and replaced them with these unrecognizable, narrow hearts?

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