The existential horror of column writing

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself then he has naught Not to say the things that he truly feels And not the words of someone who kneels The record shows, I took the blows and did it my way – Paul Anka’s English lyrics to the song “My Way” Of the more than 500 newspaper columns I have written, maybe a dozen had some merit. But the vast majority ...

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