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RKS Literature: The Manufactured James Dean Legend (Truman Capote)
“James Dean, the young motion-picture actor killed in a car accident in 1955, was promoted throughout his phosphorescent career as the all-American ‘mixed up kid’ the symbol of misunderstood hot-rodding youth with a switchblade approach to life’s little problems. When he died, an expensive film in which he starred, Giant, had yet to be released,…
RKS Literature: Your One Chance When Being Charged by Elephants (Mary Kingsley)
“In the present case I remembered, hastily, that your one chance when charged by several elephants is to dodge them around trees, working downwind all the time, and go home. It was evident from the utter unconcern of these monsters that I was downwind now, so I had only attend to dodging, and I promptly…
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