ellenkushner:theparisreview:Rumor has it that our founding editor George Plimpton was once called up
ellenkushner:theparisreview:Rumor has it that our founding editor George Plimpton was once called upon to give a commencement speech at Bennington College. Instead of bringing an armful of platitudes about inspiration and the future, he brought an armful of fireworks—maybe more like a truckload of fireworks, actually. There was one for each graduate, each carefully labeled. Rather than intoning from behind a podium, Plimpton set off the fireworks one by one, shouting each graduate’s name just before the rockets went screaming into the sky.Makes me wish I’d gone to Bennington. -- source link