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Atty+friendly RINO. Polls, politics, postpunk. Cohost of @Political_Beats at @NRO. Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening.

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    1. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 10 May 2019

      Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* Retweeted The Atlantic

      I propose something deeply controversial: the true author of William Shakespeare's plays was a man named William Shakespeare.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1126853548711587845 …

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      The AtlanticVerified account @TheAtlantic
      “Had anyone ever proposed that the creator of those extraordinary women might be a woman?” @ElizWinkler makes the case for a female Shakespeare: http://on.theatln.tc/qkExQQP 
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    2. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 10 May 2019

      By the way, Ima speak up for Shakespeare here because he's a hugely underrated and obscure writer y'all should read more of. Nobody seems to know about him but trust me, he was good.

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    3. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 10 May 2019

      Kidding aside, it blows my mind when people tell me they haven't read Hamlet. People, nearly the entire human condition can be found within the lines of that play.

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      Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 11 May 2019

      Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* Retweeted David Burge

      Indeed. For those who think it impossible a 'hick from the sticks' like Shakespeare could have written his plays (despite a classical education, mind you), I present to you Eric Hoffer, self-educated dockworker+one of our greatest 20th-c. social theorists.https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1126999404710453248 …

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      David Burge @iowahawkblog
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      I get what you're saying tho, there's a proclivity among the credentialed to think hicks like Shakespeare are incapable of knowing things
      5:15 AM - 11 May 2019
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        2. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 11 May 2019

          Hoffer published THE TRUE BELIEVER in 1951, while he was still literally working as a longshoreman on the San Francisco docks. It's more relevant than ever in 2019. Some people really are just partially/self-educated geniuses. Shakespeare was one of them too.

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        3. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 11 May 2019

          BTW, here's a great interview w/Hoffer by Eric Sevareid where he asks him how his fellow dockworkers felt about him being this 'intellectual type'. Hoffer (in his wonderfully thick accent) says "BUT THEY KNOW I AM ONE OF THEM! I AM REALLY AVERAGE!"https://youtu.be/kTcv4HyEY3w?t=297 …

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        4. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 11 May 2019

          And then Hoffer points out that "you assume these people [his fellow longshoremen] are not intelligent; let me tell you, these people are tremendously intelligent."

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        1. Link‏ @Linked333 11 May 2019
          Replying to @EsotericCD

          Part of the case against the actor's authorship is the author's knowledge of court life, life in other countries and Biblical knowledge etc. I don't believe an actor from that time period couldve had all of that knowledge.

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        2. Baud'Dib‏ @blahblahblah9tn 11 May 2019
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          We really don't know much about Eric Hoffer's origins. He was a dockworker for many years, but where he was from and to what degree he was educated is unclear.https://www.hoover.org/research/eric-hoffer-genius-and-enigma …

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        3. JQP‏ @JQP1781 11 May 2019
          Replying to @blahblahblah9tn @EsotericCD

          Eric Hoffer's fluency in Hebrew (I rather doubt he learned it in Los Angeles), his heavily-accented English, and his passion for Israel leads me to believe that he was a German-born Jew who immigrated to Palestine before coming to America in the 1930s. http://www.aei.org/publication/eric-hoffer-longshoreman-philosopher/ …

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        2. Eric Martin  🇳🇴 🇭🇺 🇫🇷‏ @OmahaBroncoFan 11 May 2019
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          If we listed all the supposed “hicks from the sticks” who wrote classics we could be here all day. Here are some other examples of great American writers who came from humble backgrounds: Samuel Clemons Willa Cather Jack London Flannery O’Connor Alexander Hamilton

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        3. Mask-free Caleb-Matt Williams  🇺🇸 🐘 🏳️‍🌈‏ @amicusets 11 May 2019
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          Flannery O'Connor was hardly a hick. She was remarkably well-educated, especially for a woman of that era. She didn't just graduate from college in an accelerated program, she was then accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa gaining her M.A.

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        1. Mike McD‏ @MickGMick 11 May 2019
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          Or that Abraham Lincoln with no formal education and autodidact could write the greatest speeches in American history.

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        1. Greg Hackett‏ @HackettGreg 11 May 2019
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          Wait, I thought Albert Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, was the greatest social theorist. 😜

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