Subject: Bio #2
Omlor@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 17:23:27 GMT
Hey Rocky, watch me pull an autobiography out of my hat...
Again?
Nothing up my sleeve...
Seeing that I must shortly approach mankind with the heaviest demand
that has ever been made on it, it seems to me indispensable to say *who I
am*. This ought really to be known already: for I have not neglected to 'bear
witness' about myself. But the disparity between the greatness of my task
and the *smallness* of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact
that I have been neither heard nor even so much as seen. I live on my own
credit, it is perhaps merely a prejudice that I am alive at all?... I need
only to talk with any of the 'cultured people' who come to the Ober-Engadin
in the summer to convince myself that I am *not* alive...Under these
circumstances there exists a duty against which my habit, even more the pride
of my instincts revolts, namely to say: *Listen to me! for I am thus and
thus. Do not, above all, confound me with what I am not!*
Whoops! I could never get that hat over my ears.
Now here's something we hope you'll *really* like...
--John
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