I guess most impressions are just impressions but there are definitely a handful of "characters" that started as real historical people and then got simplified and mutated over the decades in repeated serial impersonation

engine trouble in amish country

Simon Cooke Matthew Petti 💍 Yuan Yi Zhu fake rafebaiting leftist accounts are feds, fake ragebaiting rightist accounts are grifters

amish trouble in engine country

Cliff Pickover In many ways the electrification/digitization made it much, much less technical x.com/pickover/statu…

They already did this when they changed it from baccarat to poker for the movie

Some cultural images become so prominent that they entirely displace the works they are based on. And, in time, that predominance fades and new works emerge that go back to the source material, or subvert the adaptations in interesting ways. Frankenstein, Dracula, anything Disney

Armand D'Angour It seems Eliot was often having awkward and semi-star-struck encounters that grope at yet fail to effect perfect enlightenment x.com/ArmandDAngour/…

"The Vane Sisters," Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, 1951 (colorised)

Mass media and mass production flatten culture. Not entirely distinct from something Warhol said about Coca-Cola:

One might think that this is just synonymous with “not a real job.” Not so! “Poet” is not a real job, but it also is not a romcom job.

Good news! The contest you skipped a social engagement to meet the deadline to has been extended by another month

Democritus Sr She's a celebrated poet. He's a vitriolic literary critic. They've carried on a public feud for years, but both publish under pen names. They meet and fall in love over the course of a swanky journal launch party, without knowing the other's identity...

Every year this gets more and more true The president, kings, and I share the same phone, same coke, same paper and movies. This is awesome actually

the flashback i just flishbuck