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October 2nd, 2009

Authors and their self portraits

The Daily Beast has a post of some famous authors and their self portraits.

Here’s one by Maurice Sendak.

Not too much of a surprise.

Here’s another by Jorge Luis Borges.

Now that’s interesting.

One more:
By Joan Didion

She thinks of herself as made up of words and numbers? I wonder what she thinks of Wittgenstein?

Posted by Mary Lupin

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