I say persona, he says personum?

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:27 PM -0500 11/18/07, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>Joe Klein ("a columnist for Time magazine and the author, most
>recently, of 'Politics Lost'") writes:
>
>"Hunter Thompson was always much more, and sometimes a bit less, than
>the sum of his ribald public persona."
>
>I suppose he might have written "totality", but for me "sum" requires
>a plural.  Perhaps his next book should be "Plurals Lost".
>
>The New York Times Book Review, Nov. 18, 15/1.
>
>Joel
>
He had me at "always much more, and sometimes a bit less".

LH

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