[pepsi_junkie]

My grandfather grew up across the street from Walt Whitman's home in Camden NJ. Actually he was probably a baby when Whitman died but his older sister was very much alive and about 9 years old at that time. She said that the kids were all told to avoid his house, he was a dirty old man.

Now, this is fact as conveyed to me personally by someone who actually was his neighbor. Doesn't mean he was a dirty old man, I don't know why people thought that (although I think some of his poetry was considered quite risque' back in the day and it may just be because of that). But that story always reminds me to take care in investing too much in your idols, if you look closely you will find most have feet of clay.

[Ozguy1945]

Thanks for the knowledge - a perspective from close-up.

You cant always expect a great creator to be as good as what he creates.

[Migraine]

Feet of clay is right — case in point? Try Frank Lloyd Wright or Vincent Van Gogh or Margaret Mead.