Wow, and to think I was just down the block scarfing down a couple of custard-filled Bismarcks at Dinkel's while all this was going on. Rubbing elbows with Paul Giamatti would've been good--loved him in American Splendor.
But the opportunity to stand in the presence of the man himself, bigfan, now that would've been a truly humbling, awe-inspiring experience.
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Antonio Gramsci wrote:
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.