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It's cold and lonely work
Just get on with it, my fellow hacks. Know your place. It's cold and lonely work, but we chose this profession and we should get off our high meta-horses and do it.
He's talking about why he's still writing about Sarah Palin, despite some suggestions that she is so transparently attention-craving that perhaps silence would be the wiser response. But the counsel seems to have more general applicability. It's almost worthy of printing on a t-shirt.
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
