“Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?”
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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