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[email fragment] Motorcycle Diaries: Up a notch via the Nic Harcourt interview w/ that actor dude (Gael Garcia Bernal? I think.); back down one thanks to Slate n you.

Also this from Lawrence Weschler, "Anatomy Lesson", Atlantic Monthly, October 97, about visiting the Rembrandt painting in its gallery during a break from covering the Bosnia war crimes tribunal:

The Anatomy Lesson is so famously overexposed, so crusted over with conventional regard, as to be almost impossible to see afresh. And indeed, when I recently came upon the painting once again, rather than seeing it I found myself recalling an essay I hadn't thought about in almost thirty years -- the English critic John Berger's 1967 rumination on the occasion of Che Guevara's death. Responding to the simultaneous appearance seemingly all over the world of that ghastly photo of Che's felled body, stretched out half naked across a bare surface and surrounded by the proud Bolivian officers and soldiers who had succeeded in bagging the revolutionary leader, Berger made a startling connection to Rembrandt'sAnatomy Lesson. Gee, I remember thinking at the time, this man doesn't look at his morning paper the way I look at mine.

 
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