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June 25, 2016
Who’s The Guy With The Big Head On 77th Street?
His fans included Jefferson, Bolivar, Goethe, Darwin, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe. The composer Berlioz called his writing “dazzling.” And then, having reached the peak, a world-wide celebrity, you can almost hear a long, deep ‘pffffffffftttt’ as his fame began to leak away, until many, many decades later, the deflation complete, we find him on a street corner, a quiet hunk of bronze next to a weekend hot dog stand. – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 25, 2016 10:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.