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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 16

    Walt Whitman wrote an introduction to an English edition of Leaves of Grass that was so ridiculously vain (trying to lie about his age & praising his own "singular personal magnetism") that it was never used.pic.twitter.com/VD2hNxNpku

    4:56 PM - 16 Mar 2022
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      1. Eric Anderson‏ @emande Mar 16
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        Leaves of Grass; Balls of Brass

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      1. Sergio Bandini‏ @aghoukassian Mar 16
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        Sort of Trumpian, really.

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      2. Tim Byrne‏ @TByrne75 Mar 16
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        I don't know whether more people know Walt Whitman through Dead Poets' Society or Breaking Bad.

        2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Brian, Not the Messiah. Follower of the Gourd‏ @PhillyB322 Mar 16
        Replying to @TByrne75 @FakeDawnSummers @HeerJeet

        i hear he made some killer candy too

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      2. Chad Farrenburg‏ @ChadFarrenburg Mar 16
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I read this as a joke?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 16
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        apparently not!

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      1. KB‏ @sorrykb Mar 16
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        These days he’d just start a Substack.

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      1. Michael McGough‏ @MichaelMcGough3 Mar 16
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        He contained multitudes.

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      1. Eugene Coldrick‏ @EugeneColdrick Mar 16
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        Isaac Asimov wrote something similar. I remember reading it. He wrote a glowing mini-biography. Ending with something like. "Even though he is in advanced years he is as handsome and youthful as ever. You can be assured this is true as he wrote this himself.

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      1. Dozenals‏ @IvanTop97656822 Mar 16
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        Me on Tinder.

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