Archive for the ‘ Fame ’ Category
Following an unwritten rule critics must take into account their position vis a vis the cultural objects they write about. Today this often means telling a story about a personal interaction with it. “When I first read Huck Fin…” “In Rome I saw Titian’s portrait of…” The first person pronoun is the minimum of reflection [ READ MORE ]
You ask, sir, for advice on how to properly become anonymous. Get yourself a few beards and a long gray coat with buttons up the sides. Ask a friend, a carpenter or a seamstress, to sew some extra buttons on if there are too few. Then inquire if this friend couldn’t also fabricate a few [ READ MORE ]
I quote this title not in order to satirize it, but in order to explain an error of excess that this blog is prone to, i am, you are, we are prone to, in a bid for celebrity through anonymity. While remaining nameless it is far too easy to call toward a mysterious to-come and, [ READ MORE ]
