"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?," James
Thurber
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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/23/is-sex-necessary-e-b-white-james-thurber/>
asked in the caption to a 1958
New Yorker cartoon depicting a woman
fed up with her artist partner. It remains unknown whether the cartoon
itself, or this cultural dismay shared by some of the era's
counterculture thinkers, inspired the 1968 gem *
How To Be a
Nonconformist*
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(
public library
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http://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-be-a-nonconformist/oclc/1991873&referer=brief_results>)
by
Elissa Jane Karg. One could easily imagine that if Edward Gorey
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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/edward-gorey>, master of
pen-and-ink irreverence, and Patti Smith
<
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/patti-smith/>, godmother of
punk-rock, had collaborated, this would've been the result. But what's
most impressive is that Karg was only sixteen at the time, a
self-described "cynical & skeptical junior at Brien McMahon High School
in Norwalk, Connecticut," qualified to examine nonconformity as "an
angry and amused observer" of her "cool contemporaries."
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/30/how-to-be-a-nonconformist-elissa-jane-karg/
This is just AWESOMESAUCE! My how the more things change, the more they
stay the same.
Peace,
Katherine
