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Wrestling with Dr. Samuel Johnson
How sweet was it that Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured side-by-side reviews of a biography of the great critic-lexicographer-biographer Samuel Johnson and an autobiography of wrestler-celebrity-nobody Hulk Hogan? So it was that Johnson’s “Falstaffian vitalism” paralleled Hogan’s “herculean … Continue reading