On Being Hard-Core, the Best and Greatest, and Maybe Also Crazy
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To everybody in the world, [Alexander the Great] was the best and the greatest. The army all worshipped him, but a lot of them deserted him because they thought he was crazy. He just kept going and going until they killed him, and I think about that. I’m a little bit like that.1 When will […]