“A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.” — Louis Menand, “Browbeaten”
It could happen even to someone nice
August 10th, 2012 · 7 Comments
Tags: Lit & Crit
7 responses so far ↓
1 CJ // Aug 10, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Journalism. That’s one word for it.
2 Tetman Callis // Aug 11, 2012 at 5:32 am
CJ, what’s another?
3 Averil Dean // Aug 10, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Damn. I missed my calling.
4 Tetman Callis // Aug 11, 2012 at 5:33 am
Averil, a person gets lucky.
5 CJ // Aug 13, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Another word for the sensibility described is artist. And I’m not afraid or ashamed to call myself one.
6 Tetman Callis // Aug 14, 2012 at 6:35 am
This is good. For reasons not worth going into here but not unlike many persons’ reasons, for a long time I had difficulty identifying myself as an artist. Add to that the perversion of American culture with its message that you’re not something unless it’s how you make your living. I prefer the Nietzschean stance.
7 CJ // Aug 14, 2012 at 11:53 am
Tetman, I am all about the over soul, the Nietzschean energy and the Nietzschean stance.
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