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Monday, September 30, 2013

How To Be a Nonconformist


I could have used this handbook when I was an aspiring nonconformist.


 “Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?,” James Thurber asked in the caption to a 1958 New Yorker cartoon depicting a woman fed up with her artist partner. It remains unknown whether the cartoon itself, or this cultural dismay shared by some of the era’s counterculture thinkers, inspired the 1968 gem How To Be a Nonconformist (public library) by Elissa Jane Karg.

Much more at  Brain Pickings

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