[HN Gopher] Joe Gould's Teeth: The long-lost story of the longes...
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       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.
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       | 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
        
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