Perhaps he had, in fact, read something I wrote.
"It's something I wrote after dark, at night, alone.
It must have been something I wrote a few years ago.
And I should correct something I wrote earlier: Dempsey got his left boot to his, not his right.
On those rare occasions when I'm obliged to reread something I wrote a long time ago, I often don't recognize the person who wrote it.
At that moment in my life I owned nothing, needed nothing, owed no one and was thrilled that any newspaper anywhere would pay to print something I wrote.
It's worth reposting something I wrote awhile back about a related design communication effort, undertaken in Pakistan after the devastating Kashmir earthquake in 2005.
"The fact that this is seen as an appropriate reaction to something I wrote in the paper is really disgusting".
There's also the not insignificant problem of figuring out how to revive its economy (something I wrote about last year).
The danger seemed notional to me now, not entirely real, something I wrote about, something that killed other people.
The very idea that anyone would consider giving something I wrote an award is a huge thrill!
