Neat, but it'd be nice if the author wasn't so full of himself. The whole article is "I this...", "I that...", etc.
Surely with that many words he could have come up with a narrative that wasn't so egotistical.
Surely with that many words he could have come up with a narrative that wasn't so egotistical.
"It was nuts. Totally obsessive-compulsive. Call it an exercise in eccentricity or futility, and you'd probably be right."
How is that humble? A good writer would tell the story and let the reader decide how crazy and eccentric he is.
There are a million ways to write about personal experiences without using "I" every other sentence and bragging about how great you are.
I probably shouldn't have even said anything.
The guy taught journalism for 20 years and was a newspaper editor for a similar stretch. Maybe take a deep breath and consider that there are kinds of good writing that you haven't yet learned to appreciate.