
Dead Wrong History
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History is stranger than fiction. We prove it daily.
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Sam Kinison was an ordained Pentecostal preacher before he became a comedian. He debuted this at Rodney Dangerfield's HBO special in 1985. He died in a car crash 7 years later aged 38. George Carlin called him "the last of the truly dangerous comedians."
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Hunter S. Thompson hears his letter from the day Kennedy was shot read back to him. Charlie Rose, 1997.
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Andrea Dworkin and Erica Jong. Same show, 1987. An audience member asked Dworkin what tragic thing had happened to make her feel this way. She asked why nobody put that to Norman Mailer. He stabbed his wife. Jong called her work courageous — then disagreed with her entirely.
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Borges called English "the most physical of all languages" — it holds two registers, Germanic and Latin, and for every idea you have two words that are never quite the same. When asked if he wrote poetry in English: "No. I respect English too much."
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