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I love you Joan Didion

“As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for oneself depends upon one’s mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together; that the come from ‘a broken home.’ They are (…) younger all the time, an army of children waiting to be given the words.”

Relevant: “Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of deceleration and power…?”