October 12, 2001
Men Were the Only Models I Had
The critic of the opposite sex will be genuinely puzzled and surprised by an attempt to alter the current scale of values, and will see in it not merely a difference of view, but a view that is weak, or trivial, or sentimental, because it differs from their own.
--Virginia Woolf, Women and Fiction
Once upon a time there were three men who exemplified, without knowing it, my ideal life. All of them became famous as writers, influential thinkers,
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