[HN Gopher] Joe Gould's Teeth: The long-lost story of the longes... ___________________________________________________________________ Joe Gould's Teeth: The long-lost story of the longest book ever written (2015) Author : benbreen Score : 15 points Date : 2020-11-16 22:33 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com) | erulabs wrote: | Beautiful and wonderful and sad and beautiful again. Highly | recommended read. | | > "The fallacy of dividing people into sane and insane lies in | the assumption that we really do touch other lives... Hence I | would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the | tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes | calmly" | | Tragic isolation indeed. The story of Savage, the African | American sculptor, rings with as much tragic isolation as Joe's. | The author and the reader share the emotion, which is probably | the measure of success in any writing. | | It's somewhere around this age of mine when one realizes one will | be forgotten - and quickly. A few database columns here or there | and then what? Subsumed by billions of the equally forgotten. So, | I pursue my essential purpose; is there anything else? | neonate wrote: | https://archive.is/kIca3 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-11-17 23:01 UTC)