Hypothesis: All memoirs by right-wing pundits are attempts to answer the question, "why does no one like me?" See: Toby Young's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Barbara Amiel's Friends & Enemies. Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. Martin Peretz's promised The Book of Grudges.
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The prototype of the right-wing memoirist who revels in being hated is Wyndham Lewis, the great & terrible monster of modernism. He once published a one-man magazine called The Enemy & wrote two grudge-filled memoirs (Blasting and Bombardiering, Rude Assignment)
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As early "firing line" devotee... He was brilliant..a pleasure to audition.
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By "complacency of untroubled happiness", I trust you mean this as a literary sin, not a personal failing. That's my whole goal in life right there.
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His gift for friendship was his reason for being and led to so many catastrophic decisions, but also an unfettered generosity.
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Fresh, witty and I liked how his tongue did that cute reptilian thing
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You’ve never said anything this nice about Joe Biden but go off
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