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Satire V: Well, since we don’t do shows if you don’t find us funny, you can just stop reading us; we don’t have to be embarrassed in person...
...Brien: Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering. It was liberating to my imagination to break out of that and to be able to make things up that, although they were invented, felt truer than the truth. These are two different things [fiction and journalism] and one makes me feel and the other leaves me kind of cold...
...perspective is—this might be a little meta—it’s just a label,” Brown said. “It’s really exciting. But it means very little about who I am as a person...
...course, I am certainly not the only person who has foregone his or her first name for a middle one. I’ve always wondered what N. Gregory Mankiw’s story is. In eighth grade, one classmate confessed in an English essay that he, too, was harboring a secret first name that he chose not to use. Even Zane Grey dropped his real first name—Pearl—in favor of his middle name...
...high school graduation. After I received my diploma, the Head of School pulled me over for a hug. As he did so, he delivered the ultimate blow to my emotional solar plexus, revealing he knew nothing whatsoever about me: “You’re a special person, Henrietta...