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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Must-Read New Yorker piece
I don't want to step on the toes of our New Yorker genre watcher so I am linking this with no comment other than that it would be fun to read before the class after next, i.e superheroes. I will point that it's written by the great Michael Chabon.
I really liked this piece and the idea that the superhero costumes were meant to disguise who the superheroes really were but instead actually exposed their true selves to the world. Chabon uses the costumes as a great metaphor for explaining the superhero comics as a means of allowing ourselves "to begin to wear what we knew to be hidden inside us."
I'm also impressed by how much he knows about fashion--there was a fitting cartoon with two dogs, one is a psychiatrist and the other is a patient lying on the couch and the patient says something about not knowing who Manolo Blahnik was before but definitely knowing now. That bit was quite entertaining :)
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I really liked this piece and the idea that the superhero costumes were meant to disguise who the superheroes really were but instead actually exposed their true selves to the world. Chabon uses the costumes as a great metaphor for explaining the superhero comics as a means of allowing ourselves "to begin to wear what we knew to be hidden inside us."
I'm also impressed by how much he knows about fashion--there was a fitting cartoon with two dogs, one is a psychiatrist and the other is a patient lying on the couch and the patient says something about not knowing who Manolo Blahnik was before but definitely knowing now. That bit was quite entertaining :)
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