“Wretchard” of the Bellmont Club looks at Paul Auster, whom the New York Times notes, presumably without the intended irony, “is the author of the forthcoming ‘Man in the Dark'”:
Paul Auster’s “Vietnam me act crazy” article in the New York Times is that worst of confessions: that kind that is accidentally funny. Explaining his strange behavior on a certain day in the 1960s, Auster says,
Being crazy struck me as a perfectly sane response to the hand I had been dealt
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