Preamble Dancing with the Stars By Lewis H. Lapham The vanity of princes is an old story; so is the wish for kings and the gazing into the pool of Narcissus. More
Essay Against Appearances By Bruce Bawer Orson Welles became a star not by creating some great work, but by simply scaring the hell out of people. More
Voices In Time 1711 | London We Few, We Famous Few Joseph Addison on fame as a double-edged sword.More
Voices In Time c. 1680 | Oxfordshire As False as Common Fame “There’s not a thing on earth that I can name so foolish and so false as common fame.”More
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it. —Mencius, c. 330 BC
