Fry on fame.
A good metaphor for fame is the magnifying glass. It makes larger (which is what magnify means) exposing flaws as well as qualities. The blackheads and dirty pores are there for all to see. Like a magnifying glass fame can distort, it can invert and it can (with the glare of publicity behind it) focus the light into a terrible heat that burns the subject until they shrivel into nothing.
Read the rest of this wonderful blessay here. Hah, Stephen's blog has got to be the only one I have to read with the occasional help of dictionary.com.
Read the rest of this wonderful blessay here. Hah, Stephen's blog has got to be the only one I have to read with the occasional help of dictionary.com.