Off The Record
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Oct 15, 2010 at 4:35am
One day, when I am the last person alive on this planet, I'm going to publish a book called "Off the Record." Because you've got to believe me, the stuff people tell me off the record is the best part.
Sadly, I must wait until everyone concerned is dead.
That's really all I can say about that.
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May '10
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So when there's a string of deaths of potential informants by poorly-executed martial arts, we'll know something's up.
Jul '10
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A prominent Democratic politician told me once that the media gives us about 10% of what's really going on. Not because, as now, they are wedded to one party, but because "they just don't know." The off-the-record stuff you hear is just part of that whole picture. With luck, historians down the road may capture the greater share of it. Take FDR, for example. Sixty-five years down the road and we're still pretty much in the dark about how he secretly maneuvered us -- rightly so, by the way --into war with Japan.
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I am absolutely certain of this.
Sep '10
Re: Off The Record
In the long run, we're all Off the Record.
May '10
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I suspect the sales potential of such a book to be rather low, don't you, Claire "I am Legend" Berlinski?
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EJHill
I suspect the sales potential of such a book to be rather low, don't you, Claire "I am Legend" Berlinski? · Oct 15 at 5:16am
It will be a total bestseller compared to all the other newly-published books.
Sep '10
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Being a non-sophisticated main-streeter I have to ask is “off the record” close to “I’m going to tell you something, but don’t repeat it”? When told the latter, I always assume that what I am hearing is a half-truth that a person wants to ensure is passed on in one form or another.
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Totally--but sometimes it's not a half truth. Sometimes it's a non-truth. And sometimes it's the whole truth. Whatever it is, the person saying it doesn't want to be known for saying it.
Jul '10
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I believe that was Lillian Hellman's approach to memoir-writing...
May '10
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Claire: "One day, when I am the last person alive on this planet"
I assume that your second to last book will be entitled "Berlinski Masada"? Complete with instructions for the rest of us?