Dorothy Parker. "They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
If you haven't read things by Dorothy Parker, take a look. Be careful as you read short biographies of her life. Those that report that her literary works and estate were left to the NAACP are not precisely accurate. She admired the work of Dr. Martin Luther King and left her literary works to him. He then bequeathed her work to the NAACP.
There are writers of weblogs who have a similar acid-tongued wit and cynicism embedded in their work. It's clever. Does it hide a life of quiet desperation? An idependent film called "Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle" starring Jennifer Jason Leigh was made in the mid-1990's. You'll see that desperation portrayed in the lives of Parker and her contemporaries.
