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Bacchylides and the Fitzgerald rule
It has been inferred from the elegance and quiet charm of his lyrics that he only gradually acquired fame towards the end of his life... According to…
Apr 17, 2020
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Henry Oliver
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The Fitzgerald Rule, waitress scriptwriter edition
She attended the University of Southern California and majored in business. Then she worked as an advertising copywriter, wrote travel brochures, took…
Mar 14, 2020
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Henry Oliver
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Robert Frost and the Fitzgerald Rule
Robert Frost left Harvard due to illness and worked on a farm for nine years. During that time he wrote a lot of poetry. He didn't get much published…
Apr 12, 2020
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Samuel Johnson, opsimath
Lazy, depressive, productive, late bloomer, Samuel Johnson is an example of the Fitzgerald Rule
Nov 6, 2020
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Henry Oliver
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William Shakespeare and the Fitzgerald Rule
What was Shakespeare's first great play? I'm not talking about his first popular play. I'm talking his first world-changing play. Henry IV part II…
Apr 26, 2020
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Henry Oliver
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Molière and the Fitzgerald Rule
Like many writers, Molière had an unsettled relationship with his parents. His mother died when he was eleven and he wasn't close to his father. Being…
May 18, 2020
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Michelangelo and the Fitzgerald Rule
Because all creative people start out as young people, we have a tendency to ascribe creativity to youth itself, but mature masters like Michelangelo…
Jun 30, 2020
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How to spot great talent. James Lees-Milne and the Fitzgerald Rule.
Finding good talent is important. If we believe that growth is essential to moral progress, we need great talent. Sometimes it's easy to spot people who…
Jun 25, 2020
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Richard Hugo, 'Degrees of Grey in Philipsburg', and the Fitzgerald Rule
Richard Hugo's poem Degrees of Grey in Philipsburg was published in 1973, when Hugo was 50, and is regularly anthologised. It is the poem that brings…
Mar 19, 2020
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John Berryman and the Fitzgerald Rule
Berryman published some of this early verse in his first book, Poems, in 1942. His first mature collection of poems, The Dispossessed, appeared six…
Apr 28, 2020
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Welcome to the Common Reader
If you’re brand new, here are my two most popular posts, that have been on MarginalRevolution and The Browser. Something like eight thousand people have…
Oct 26, 2020
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People who have not yet succeeded but maybe they will
I am reminded by this question of Leonard Bernstein's father who didn't want his son to study music and who later said, 'How did I know that he would…
Mar 12, 2020
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