Re: Famous Authors’ Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits and Reflections on the Divide Between the Private Person and the Writerly Persona

[Markekohut]

Many, most of polite society, never admit this. 

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On Nov 9, 2013, at 12:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are all many selves.  Some habitual, Pavlovian, some unconditioned and pure.  Mostly a mix.
> 
> On Friday, November 8, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>> “Only the crazed and the privileged permit themselves the luxury of disintegration into more than one self.”
>> 
>> On Friday, November 8, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/08/whos-writing-this-notations-on-the-authorial-i-with-self-portraits/
>>> 
>>> “It is to my other self, to Borges, that things happen… I live, I agree to go on living, so that Borges may fashion his literature,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote in his famous essay “Borges and I,” eloquently exploring our shared human tendency to disintegrate into multiple personas as our public and private selves slip in and out of different worlds. In 1996, Daniel Halpern asked 56 of our era’s most celebrated writers to reflect on Borges’s memorable meditation and contribute their own thoughts on the relationship between the person writing and the fictional persona of the writer. The resulting short essays, alongside hand-drawn self-portraits from each author — a recurring theme today — are gathered in Who’s Writing This?: Notations on the Authorial I with Self-Portraits (public library), a priceless addition to this omnibus of famous writers’ timeless wisdom on the craft.
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