BeagleSword Partners Meeting - The Monday Morning Memo

“When you think of the weight that his fame must have laid on him, even when he was young, and the anxiety that would produce; ‘How can I live up to this? How can the next book be better? What is in me to make this real?’ It’s very hard, I think, to be a public person like that, and so I think every public person creates some kind of avatar, if you will, of themselves, some holograph of themselves to present publicly, to save whatever is private in them. The problem is that eventually your avatar will consume you.”

- Tobias Wolff, writer, in Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns, episode 2, The Avatar

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