HeyJaredIan Brown
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The Mississaudyssey: One hero’s epic journey into the suburbs in pursuit of a movie – and more (opens the original)
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Ian Brown is a feature writer with The Globe and Mail. His latest book is Seventy: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year. With apologies to Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, to which Christopher Nolan’s record-setting film has been compared and linked. Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correctly name Richmond Lattimore and state that his translation of The Odyssey was published in 1965, not 1966.
Opinion: As I enter my 70s, my vanity will be the last thing to go (opens the original)
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Ian Brown is a feature writer with The Globe and Mail. His latest book is Seventy, Definitely the Beginning of the End: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year, from which the following essay has been adapted. Today (Feb. 4, 2024) is my 70th birthday. Fishing around in my phone for some vanished thought – at 70, if I don’t write them down they’re gone like children whose hand you momentarily unclasp in a crowd only to discover that they’ve disappeared – I stumbled across the photographs from last Decem
Opinion: Opening a forgotten chest, I unearthed my early writing – and faced the shallow ego of my youth (opens the original)
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According to evidence I recently unearthed in a trunk in my basement, that is how many of my high school essays began. I cringe as I admit this. My teachers implored me, again and again, in the margins of my homework, to “recapture simplicity in style, Ian.” I was alarmingly fond of the expression it would seem. It would seem that every time I trowelled it into an essay, my Grade 12 English teacher, Mr. Lawson, wrote “Paul Martin still!” in the margin in bright red ink. He meant Senator Paul Mar
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