SusanofO
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It's Ring Lardner. He was an author and journalist inthe early 20th century (he died in 1933, I think). He was famous back then for being a humorist, but he also wrote stage plays and for various newspapers. One of my favorite stories by him is fictional story about a guy who becomes famous for flying across some huge body of water in an airplane; the first person who'd ever done it over this particular body of water. The public wants and is expecting him to be this huge hero-type character because he's done this heroic thing by being the first person to ever do this in an airplane. Except - the media and the government find it hard to lionize him because he drinks too much, hates his family, has no manners, no gainful employment and never shaves or takes a bath. He's a politically incorrect embarrassment. So the government and some publicists conspire to toss him out a window, instead (it's hysterically funny). -Susan
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"Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all". - Emily Dickinson
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