Bill,
JK Rowling was on the radio on the way into work today, being interviewed about her new book about kids in a "special school" for the marginalized in a fictitious working class English town. The book is informed by her own experience as a seriously underemployed single mother of 3. I couldn't help be struck by the calm but vivid way she recalled the experience of economic transformation that the luck (her words not mine) of Harry Potter's success had brought her. Here was one of the most famous (and richest!) authors of our age expressing the simple gratitude for the opportunity to buy her own home, and the freedom to write what she wants to.
She hasn't forgotten, it seems about what it means to be on the outside. Maybe Mitt Romney should give her call. Perhaps she can conjure up a fantasy that rescues him from his current predicament.
Eli
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