Notes on spectacular personal journalism - and on writing in general, but the notes are made while studying self-aware reporters like Günter Wallraff, Hunter S. Thompson, Norah Vincent, Barbara Ehrenreich and the rhetoric of their first persons singular.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Small world
All this time I have completely overlooked a striking, if almost completely irrelevant connection between Wallraff and Thompson: In Denmark (and probably elsewhere too) a big nose is sometimes dubbed 'a günter' and sometimes, yes, 'a Gonzo'.
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