I don't know if falling in love is the right terminology (I really don't want to sleep with Wittgenstein; all issues of compatibility aside, I think I'd hurt myself), but I have been trying to keep track of my ghosts. I found a lot of them first through other people's fiction. John Adams, oddly, speaking of the upcoming holiday, was one of the first. Derek Jacobi's Claudius was another. I got better at research as I grew.
Some of mine are Harry Houdini, Emma Lazarus, Rashi, Harry Chapin, Tallulah Bankhead, P.T. Barnum, Dorothy Parker, and Steve Goodman, roughly in order of discovery, and there are doubtless at least a few others, and I have no doubt there will be more as I read. To some degree every time I read a biography I meet a new person and notice them when they show up in other people's narratives.
The links are all dead by now, but I made a post a couple of years ago of songs about historical figures. I can send you any that look interesting.)
Thank you!
*makes a mental note to look at that when I'm not packing up a hotel room in Toronto*
Also, mine yidishe tante is excited to meet you someday. I just got off a boat with her about an hour ago. :)
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Some of mine are Harry Houdini, Emma Lazarus, Rashi, Harry Chapin, Tallulah Bankhead, P.T. Barnum, Dorothy Parker, and Steve Goodman, roughly in order of discovery, and there are doubtless at least a few others, and I have no doubt there will be more as I read. To some degree every time I read a biography I meet a new person and notice them when they show up in other people's narratives.
The links are all dead by now, but I made a post a couple of years ago of songs about historical figures. I can send you any that look interesting.)
Thank you!
*makes a mental note to look at that when I'm not packing up a hotel room in Toronto*
Also, mine yidishe tante is excited to meet you someday. I just got off a boat with her about an hour ago. :)