I mean, can you believe?

[Mark Kohut]

MarkKohut ‏@MarkKohut  now

#Iconsideredadopting Karl Kraus but he was already in #Franzen's foster family.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-considered-adopting-iraqi-orphan-young-people
>
> Yeah, writers are not necessarily the humanly best
> folk..but???....considering adopting to learn how young people are
> cynical and lack anger????  The mind boggles.....
>
> TO ADOPT A HUMAN BEING for these purposes?
>
> I have always thought the attacks on him---except for lack of
> greatness in his works---were worse and more wrong-headed than what
> they attacked in him. He seemed ....decently 'authentic" but if
> this is honesty, I prefer lies full of humanity.
>
> Could this article be accurate?
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