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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
Novak: I'm Less Evil Than You Think
So Bob Novak is doing the whole donating-money-to-charity-to-prove- I'm-not-the-devil thing. Today's gift of $1.25 million establishes a chair in his honor at his alma mater, the University of Illinois.
The chair in Western civilization and culture will be first held by classicist Jon Solomon, who will be known as Novak Professor Jon Solomon. How's that for an honor?
In the article, we also learn some of Novak's favorite books:
The Republic, Plato
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Geoffrey Chaucer
Really? We NEVER would have guessed that Novak is a fan of the manipulative, back-stabbing, personification-of-power-hungry Machiavelli.
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