09-19-2019, 02:53 PM
I'm serious. If you didn't have to pay for it, would you allow a professional biographer to produce a book about your life? This means, going through your records and journals and emails and posts, interviewing your family, relatives, friends and all the people you may have encountered throughout your life.
(Note: I was just reading a review of Susan Sontag's biography in the The New Yorker. It contained this paragraph: "Biographers often get fed up with their subjects, with whom they have become grotesquely familiar. We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects. It is an unholy practice, the telling of a life story that isn't one's own on the basis of oppressively massive quantities of random, not necessarily reliable information.The demands this makes on the practitioner's power of discrimination, as well as on his capacity for sympathy, may well be impossible to fill."
Sound like fun?
Well, how about it? She's got her iPhone 11 ready to start the interviews.
(Note: I was just reading a review of Susan Sontag's biography in the The New Yorker. It contained this paragraph: "Biographers often get fed up with their subjects, with whom they have become grotesquely familiar. We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects. It is an unholy practice, the telling of a life story that isn't one's own on the basis of oppressively massive quantities of random, not necessarily reliable information.The demands this makes on the practitioner's power of discrimination, as well as on his capacity for sympathy, may well be impossible to fill."
Sound like fun?
Well, how about it? She's got her iPhone 11 ready to start the interviews.
