BeagleOutOfTrouble - The Monday Morning Memo

“Upon publication of Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel residents of Asheville, NC were horrified to discover the book contained recognizable portraits of themselves and their neighbors. Some were so outraged that they were denouncing him from the roofs and the corners and the housetops. Wolfe replied, ‘Apparently you can rob banks, be a crooked lawyer, swill corn whiskey, commit adultery with your neighbor’s wife – and be considered a fine, lovable, misunderstood fellow; but if you try to make something true and beautiful you are viciously insane and your big overgrown body ought to be dragged through the streets by a lynching mob…'”

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