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FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE

Joan Didion on self-respect in Vogue (also in Slouching Towards Bethlehem). “Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deceptionContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE”