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As for fame, fame felt like nothing. fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. it was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. it existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. in that, being famous was no different from being gay, or jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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As For Fame, Fame Felt Like Nothing.

Yann Martel
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. it was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. it existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. in that, being famous was no different from being gay, or jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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