# Romanticizing my past? Is you trippin'? (Sampiro in a rant of unmitigated ego) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 26, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673 "2005-08-26T02:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/21 "2005-08-26T04:54:33Z")
Sorry- I sort of kited off on a tangent there. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/22 "2005-08-26T04:56:06Z")
As someone who grew up on a farm several miles from the nearest small town (albeit rather uneventfully), I’d appreciate it if you told this idjit to take her poverty, decay, blighted dreams, and blasted hopes, and shove them right up her ass. Failing that, if you send her up here I could arrange for her to be chased around a pasture by not-very-domesticated bison whilst confined inside a high voltage fence. All in the interests of exposing her to the reality of rural life, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/23 "2005-08-26T05:06:02Z")
I actually like her- she’s a good person, I just never realized how divergent our senses of humor evidently are. She’s also a huge promoter of fantasy and Sci-Fi as literature (especially Tolkien and Heinlein). ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/24 "2005-08-26T05:09:17Z")
I keep thinking of books this professor must have found boring: \*To Kill a Mockingbird, Cold Sassy Tree, All Creatures Great And Small, A Prayer for Owen Meany… > [@](#): > > **Big Willie Shakes** : Surely you exaggerate…I don’t think there are any places you could farm cattle that far east that are 10 miles from the nearest town. Hi, Willie. Your comment is puzzling. I can’t answer for Sampiro, but my father also had cattle. I grew up a little to the northwest of Sampiro. I’m reasonably certain that there are cattle farms still further to the east in Georgia and the Carolinas. Why would you think not? These areas are still quite rural. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/25 "2005-08-26T05:24:20Z")
Here you go, **Willie** : [North Carolina Cattlemen’s Association](http://www.nccattle.com/ncca.html) [South Carolina Cattlemen’s Association](http://www.sccattle.org/Cattle/cattle.htm) [Georgia Cattlemen’s Association](http://www.gabeef.org/gca/) [Florida Cattlemen’s Association](http://www.floridacattlemen.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/26 "2005-08-26T05:26:35Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > P.S. I saw a news snippet the other day about how Augusten Burroughs family is suing him and/or his publisher because he didn’t do a good enough job disguising his family’s identities and now they’re embarrassed. I just looked [it up](http://www.jsonline.com/enter/books/aug05/349624.asp). I’m not surprised: it’s members of the Turcotte family, slightly fictionalized in the book as the Finch family, who raised him. > [@](#): > > In the book, Dr. Finch and his family engage in bizarre behaviors such as studying their feces, eating dog food and exhuming a dead cat. The author is sexually assaulted by a live-in patient, and the doctor helps him avoid school by faking suicide with alcohol and drugs. Finch has a special masturbation room off his office and allows his 13-year-old daughter to have a sexual relationship with a man. It makes you wonder why they didn’t file suit earlier. (My father was not a doctor and he did not have an adopted son, _but_) if somebody claimed my father raped a patient, allowed his adopted son to repeatedly rape an adolescent male (a major factor in _Scissors_, accepted a pay-off to let the grown man in the example above sexually and physically abuse his 13 year old daughter, and embezzled money from patients, I sure as hell wouldn’t have waited until the book was a bestseller with multiple printings, had a [movie with pretty big names](http://imdb.com/title/tt0439289/) in production, and had been the subject of dozens of interviews before deciding “Hey, you can call my daddy a morally bankrupt sexual predator for one, maybe two, maybe even three years, but in that fourth year it starts to get old”. (The family concedes that Turcotte/Finch lost his license, but this is only to “be expected for someone who is an ‘outside the box’ thinker and an ‘outside the system’ doer”. It’ll be an interesting lawsuit. Luckily I dont’ have anything anywhere near that juicy on anybody (at least not of the ones that are still alive), and when dealing with non-family members I make sure to change as many details as I can to avoid a positive ID while still keeping the essence of their role in the story true. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/27 "2005-08-26T06:20:49Z")
**Sampiro** another country kid checking in to say this woman needs to lighten up. I grew up in a two roomed house with no indoor plumbing, a pot bellied wood stove for heat and animals for company. Quiet and desperate are two things my life never was. Hell I didn’t even know we were poor til I started school and the other kids told me. I also have no trouble believing any of your stories. In fact I shared them with one of my older brothers and sister. They not only made us all laugh until we couldn’t breath but led to walks down memory lane when someone would ask “Remember when we fed mom’s chickens to that cougar?”. If you ever get your stories printed I will buy a copy for every sibling, and their children. So all my citified nieces and nephews can understand why their parents are the way they are. By the way we’re northern but our great grandmother was southern (she turned her husband in as a northern sympathizer during the civil war, and he had to light out for the Idaho territory to keep from being hanged) so I guess we come by our insanity honestly. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/28 "2005-08-26T07:00:56Z")
**Sampiro** , just jumping in to add my haypenny. Don’t listen to this woman. She has some kind of bug up her ass, and it’s completely interfered with her ability to critique your writing. I’m sure, as she’s someone you originally trusted enough to ask for advice she has her good qualities. But they don’t relate to your memoires. (I just want to add: I suspect you’re right about her view of ‘small towns’ being from Faulkner.) ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/29 "2005-08-26T07:33:05Z")
**Sampiro** , I’ve been loving your stories because they are so _true_. Your friend is in a big hurry trying to decide whether each story is intended to be funny, cute or romantic so that she can be judgmental and insist that it failed. I read each of your stories and let it be what it is. One or two others have found hilarious that I have not found funny to the same high degree; however, I have loved them because the were sharply drawn and unlike anything I’d ever heard. (Many did leave me laughing right out of my chair, though.) She does seem to have some preconceived notion of what your life and rural Alabama life should be like and so is intolerant of your stories showing it to be different. That’s her problem. As others have said, you can’t please everyone. I, on the other hand, hope to be one of the first owners of your book and to buy several copies for friends. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/30 "2005-08-26T13:41:38Z")
**Sampiro** - I have absolutely no concept of what life in rural Alabama is like, should be like etc and I LOVED your stories. They’re funny. Sometimes in a sad, poignant way, sometimes in a very sick and twisted black way, but oh my goodness are they FUNNY. Well-written and hilarious. To be honest, I don’t care whether they’re the God’s honest truth or slightly embroidered, they made me laugh. Don’t let the bitch grind you down, because I’d pay money for more stories, and I’m not the only one. (I was recently re-reading some Gerald Durrell, and although your family is much more odd and harrowing than his, _My Family and Other Animals_ made me think of you.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/31 "2005-08-26T13:59:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So… those of you who read [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326481&highlight=hacksaw) and some others know that I’m trying to polish up some posts here and some other autobiographical stories to submit for publication. I’ve asked several people to give me feedback because I’m curious as to what works and what doesn’t. > > I really can take criticism, I swear it. As a matter of fact in many ways I take criticism better than I do compliments, which embarass the hell out of me. More often than not I’ll say “Yeah, you’re right- that paragraph really doesn’t work” or “that sidestory bogs down the flow- I love it but you’re right, it should go”, or if I disagree then I’ll make a reasonable “I understand your point, but personally I do think this should be written in dialect because to me his impediment and accent are just an extremely strong memory”. > > But… I asked an acquaintance, an English professor (raised in suburban Philadelphia) who does some editing and writing of her own, to read them and offer her critiques. Her response just made me “…the hell? You got _that_ from what I wrote?” > > Okay… > > 1. Romanticize them? I describe my 82 year old grandmother’s bare ass hanging out a window while her lobotomized sister pisses on the ground, houses that literally assailed every allergy you’d ever thought of having before you ever get out of the car, constant dogs being dumped by the side of the road and coming to us emaciated and unwanted [and usually getting killed in the road], dead impoverished black children playing in a fallow garden, old women leaving their filthy log home [where at least two of their former cats were mummified] to take an ‘ish’ in the woods… where have I romanticized anything? I’d hate to see what you called gritty realism. (Perhaps I should have had a bloody reenactment of Lucy’s lobotomy, maybe? Or describe my grandmother’s anus?) > > 2- My childhood did not take place in a town, small or otherwise. It took place on a cattle farm five miles from the nearest gas station, ten miles from the nearest “town” (whose current population is about 150) and twenty miles from a town with a supermarket. This may seem like a trivial distinction, but it’s not. > > 3- I think what you know of small towns comes from reading Faulkner, not from living in them. Yes, they can be living hells on Earth and just thoroughly evil places, but not everybody there is living a life of quiet desperation (most in particulalry they aren’t all living the quiet part). And I would wager there are one hell of a lot more blasted dreams in NYC and LA and Chicago than there are in Enterprise, Alabama, and a whole lot more real poverty. > > 1. I was 18 _and GAY_ in very rural Alabama, I know a thing or two about dying to get out of the place you were born (though the manner in which we finally left was a bit…ahem… awkward). Even I don’t think it was that melodramatic. > > Then she says > > Um… my grandmother’s 82 year old naked ass was hanging out a window while her sister peed on the ground. My senile 97 year old aunt thought Sandy Duncan was trying to watch her eliminate. My brother and I faked a 240 lb. dead dog being tickled. Most of the most miserable moments of my life happened in that house, but even when these things were happening I thought they were funny as hell. They were frustrating, embarassing and decidedly bizarre, but realizing just how absurdly funny it was kept me sane. > > And I hope that there’s nothing remotely self pitying about my writing. I like to think I got over that a long time ago. (Of course I also like to think I look like Ricky Martin when I wear my muscle shirts, but I have many sworn statements that would indicate otherwise.) > > She earlier wrote this[The Potato Head Bible Beating Story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6405641&postcount=209): > > Okay, I was the child being _abused_, and it was 30 years ago and I can see things a lot more clearly now, and I will still tell you flatly, I _deserved_ that ass-whippin’. In fact, if _I_ had been _my_ child (which given my family’s genealogy would probably be somehow possible), I would have blistered my butt a lot more frequently than I did. > > And yet then she says this: > > ## Uh… no. Those _ **were** _ child abuse. Yes, the recipe/suicide letter is written for comedic effect, but in general I didn’t think they were funny. Some you knew were just hot air and emotional flatulence, but the others were absolutely terrifying. There wasn’t a lot funny about thinking your mother is going to send a bullet through her brain and using everything in your power including faking messages from the beyond and speaking in tongues to get her not to, but I’m glad you found those amusing even if you didn’t the naked old woman in the window. > > Well, I know that this is going to sound whiny and thin-skinned, but I’m really not either. Of course she also says she doesn’t understand how anybody can read Flannery O’Connor (though oddly she likes Faulkner). I really do hope that others who’ve read them understand a bit more what I was going for or can see the humor in an old woman’s ass (and life in the eyes of a child). > > Sorry for the rant, especially since it’s drearily close to a Ray Walston “A MARTIAN WOULD NEVER SAY THAT!” primadonna fit, but I just had to vent. (And to any others I’ve asked for criticism, I promise that you won’t wind up here- it’s not the criticism that I minded of the above but the absurdity of the allegations.) Without having read all the subsequent posts to your OP, I have a couple comments. One, being a professor doesn’t make a person smart and doesn’t make them intuitive as to what people like to read. Don’t pay her opinion much mind. Two, your subject matter, and the fact you find a lot of your childhood funny (in a black humor kind of way) reminds me of just about every childhood I know of. Fact is, there is at least a grain of humor in nearly everything. Your style reminds me of _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_ which was both heartbreaking and hilarious. You’re on to something here. While you can (and should) take criticism regarding certain technical aspects of good writing, don’t let this professor woman take a dump on the essence of what you’re trying to communicate. Write the truth – _your_ story is interesting and lyrical. If she doesn’t get it, well…then I guess she won’t be your target audience. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/32 "2005-08-26T14:04:07Z")
> [@furt](#): > > A-_HEM_. Except for furt, of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Willie\_Shakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@Big\_Willie\_Shakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Willie_Shakes)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/33 "2005-08-26T14:33:01Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I keep thinking of books this professor must have found boring: \*To Kill a Mockingbird, Cold Sassy Tree, All Creatures Great And Small, A Prayer for Owen Meany… > > Hi, Willie. Your comment is puzzling. I can’t answer for Sampiro, but my father also had cattle. I grew up a little to the northwest of Sampiro. I’m reasonably certain that there are cattle farms still further to the east in Georgia and the Carolinas. Why would you think not? These areas are still quite rural. I’m sorry for the unclear, run-on sentence. I’m not saying that cattle are not raised that far east, just that in the areas suitable for raising cattle, there are going to be small towns every 6-7 miles. Has something to do with the way the land was parcelled up originally, though I don’t know the details. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/34 "2005-08-26T14:52:12Z")
A “township” is a measurement of land. One thing to bear in mind when looking at maps of very rural areas is that many of the placenames on the map are of dead towns but they have a post office. While it may technically have a population of 300, there aren’t that many people there because it’s counting people who get mail through the post office there as residents. We were technically residents of Titus (a “town” with a post office, gas station and a couple of small churches) even though we lived 7 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/35 "2005-08-26T15:30:47Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > She’s also a huge promoter of fantasy and Sci-Fi as literature (especially Tolkien and Heinlein). Which couldn’t be further from your style of writing. I’m glad you’re not letting her criticism affect you. Are there any profs you’re friendly with that more closely share your sensibility? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/36 "2005-08-26T15:58:06Z")
Many English professors are frustrated authors in disguise. Let your audience and history be the judge of the merit of your works. Ask the professors for insight as to technical competence, not content, and leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/37 "2005-08-26T16:09:02Z")
My dear **Sampiro** , by way of establishing my credentials, I mention (though it’s apparently it’s no longer on the newspaper’s web site) that in 2001 I reviewed [Elizabeth Spencer](http://www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/english/swwc2005/speakers/spencer.asp)’s short story collection _A Southern Woman_. I am not an English professor (only an English major-turned-writer), but I’ve written numerous book reviews and am a voracioius reader. And _I_ say she don’t know what she’s talkin’ about! Your work, as others have noted, strikes the right balance between humor and poignancy. I’m still reading my way through what you sent yesterday, and I do have what I hope will be helpful criticism (not critical remarks! _Literary_ criticism!!). You won’t appeal to everyone. There are wildly popular authors I don’t like. There are well-respected authors I don’t like! (PLEASE don’t ever make me read _The Sound and the Fury_ again! Uck! [or “ish!”]). Fondly, –Ellen (affected by Sampiro’s parenthesis- and bracket-itis) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/38 "2005-08-26T17:43:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I actually like her- she’s a good person, I just never realized how divergent our senses of humor evidently are. She’s also a huge promoter of fantasy and Sci-Fi as literature (especially Tolkien and Heinlein). I gotta agree on Tolkien, but Heinlein? I love his books, but he’s a great storyteller, not the Great American Novelist. I also have to say that, even though I’m even more northern than any Yankee, and have never lived in the country, I find your stories **very** funny and think that you are a born “slice of life” storyteller. I would much rather read (or hear) a great story than a Great Literary Work by someone who doesn’t know the first rule of fiction - it’s got to tell a story. ---
**Author:** ![jkirkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/39 "2005-08-26T19:13:25Z")
To continue the “parts of Alabama really can be extremely rural” hijack– I live in Montgomery. You can go from “State Capital” to “still looks like the 1930’s” in about 10 minutes. US 80 between the Montgomery Airport and the Selma bypass (heh) is about 50 miles of rolling farmland with no towns to be seen. When I worked at Tuskegee University, I lived in rural Macon county. I was 10 minutes from my office at a reasonably-sized University and it looked like I lived in the middle of nowhere. My neighbors (nice folks) lived across the road in a tar paper shack and heated their home in the winter with a wood stove. There wasn’t really any law enforcement, and if your home caught fire, it was gone. It was an interesting experience for some one who grew up in Atlanta and considered Athens, GA to be a small town. –jack (link to editorial after someone realized the Alabama State Patrol doesn’t, after midnight) [http://www.alabamastatetrooper.com/state\_highways\_lonely\_at\_night.htm](http://www.alabamastatetrooper.com/state_highways_lonely_at_night.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673/40 "2005-08-26T22:22:06Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > I’m still reading my way through what you sent yesterday, and I do have what I hope will be helpful criticism (not critical remarks! _Literary_ criticism!!). I’d love to read anything you have to say about it, and I promise I won’t pit you (unless you like insult my Mama or something). 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanticizing-my-past-is-you-trippin-sampiro-in-a-rant-of-unmitigated-ego/318673.md?page=3)