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The 8 years of Obama I had nightmares nightly that he is Freddy Krueger. Go ahead and laugh but I believe I’m due some reparations.
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Man, I SO GLAD I missed the “wall-less office” era she describes. It sounds like an absolute and total hell to me. Cubicles work. I never would have been able to function in a mall-like setting.
It’s the reason you don’t generally find white-collar workers working in the large plate-glass windows on Main Street. Not too hard to figure out.
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“To me the most powerful character is the one I at first misjudge, and which later shows to be a good person. This brought a clamor of “No, we have to signal all the right beliefs/politics, etc. upfront, otherwise he’s a villain!”
A quibble: The most powerful characters to me are those who don’t occupy two sides of an Aesopping-pong table, lobbed from side to side.
They are those like MacBeth, and perhaps Richard III; or Dickens’ Dombey and Fagin (and whole raft of others I can’t think of right now. He specialized in them. Starbuck.). They are not misjudged by the reader or the author: they are villains.
But, then, the author challenges you to explore the questions: if they are so bad, why are they so interesting?
And if they possess traits you can so deeply identify with — and even sympathize with — what does that say about humans, and judgement, and you?