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Also, back in 2000 DFW traveled with the McCain campaign for Rolling Stone magazine. He eventually released an ebook and then a print book collecting the whole thing. Needless to say, it's worth checking out these days.
This is awful.
Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the Claremont Police Department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find her husband had hanged himself.
Wallace won a cult following for his dark humor and ironic wit, which was on display in such books as "Girl with Curious Hair" and "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men." In 1997, he received a MacArthur "genius" grant.
Seeing DFW read in Ann Arbor was the moment when I decided I wanted to be a writer. I've always found his style, wit and depth to be extremely inspirational. He should have spent the next 40 years being brilliant. This really isn't fair.
Very in depth article that proves the point quite admirably.
Short version: Shakespeare's patron funded a trip to colonize the New World and the play was inspired by the trip, labor disputes and the local native tribes.
Upon disembarking at Elizabeth, the captain and his men encountered a number of members of the Wampanoag tribe — who were, with the benefit of hindsight, probably much too genial for their own good. Despite the language barrier, gifts were exchanged. The Englishmen managed not to enslave or exterminate anybody. The two groups parted ways amicably. (In later years the Elizabeth Island would be renamed “Cuttyhunk” as a very rough approximation of its orginal Wampanoag name.)
The explorers did not find any gold, but they harvested an enormous amount of sassafras, which recent advances in medical science had shown to be an effective treatment for syphilis. Alas, not really. But until someone figured this out, sassafras was valuable.
This makes no sense to me. Anyone more versed in copyright law care to explain how this is just in the comments section?
Rowling filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a Michigan-based company, last year over the Harry Potter Lexicon on the grounds that it lifted huge portions of her stories without adding any original thought or interpretation. She called the project "wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work".
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