But who could get through this long-winded, braggadocio-ridden essay?
I did. I thought it was a very nice tribute to Joan Rivers.
Peggy is more like Maureen Dowd than she would probably care to acknowledge: everything she writes is about herself, regardless of the ostensible topic.
That's Noonan, all right. She wouldn't know how to write otherwise.
This part of the article made me laugh:
"Joan and a friend had just come back from a safari in Africa. One day they were walking along a path when they saw some local tribesmen. As the two groups passed, a tribesman exclaimed, “Joan Rivers, what are you doing here?!”
Then Noonan had to screw it up a couple of sentences later:
"We talked about it, and I asked, beyond the idea of what might be called Western cultural imperialism , what else does the story mean to you?"
Also, she needs to pay more attention to proofreading.
......I got about halfway .....before nausea set in
You should have read it. Noonan at her almost best. They were clearly close friends and it was a real and moving tribute.