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1. Deron Bauman on July 2nd, 2011 at 1:48 pm

   This is a great question. I know I want mine to be a filmmaker, a photographer, and a writer, but I will have to think which ones.

2. Amanda Mae on July 2nd, 2011 at 2:28 pm

   Flannery O’Connor, Beryl Markham and Ellen Raskin.

3. Cindy Scroggins on July 2nd, 2011 at 3:41 pm

   Daryl, that is the highest compliment I have ever received. Thank you. I want to live up to it.

4. Sheila Ryan on July 2nd, 2011 at 3:56 pm

   William Blake. Nina Simone. Archie Motley.

5. Daryl Scroggins on July 2nd, 2011 at 5:13 pm

   Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen J. Gould

6. Rick Neece on July 2nd, 2011 at 5:42 pm

   Gordon Lish, Daryl Scroggins, Deron Bauman.

   I’m totally “not” blowing air up your skirts. I admire you, seriously.

7. Sheila Ryan on July 2nd, 2011 at 5:46 pm

   Daryl, you know my ma said that when her father and Wallace Stevens walked into their club together, Stevens would say something along the lines of “We don’t talk poetry in here.”

   Who knows what if any grain of truth there is in that.

   I do know that my mother spoke to me believably of attending garden parties chez Stevens when she was young. Also, I recollect she said to me, “I never much cared for his verse.”

   And then (in another vein), she said she didn’t like Samuel Beckett either.

   Still, for a woman with no more than a high school education to hold such opinions at all is kind of interesting. Probably says something about the person I came to be.

8. Luke on July 2nd, 2011 at 9:16 pm

   RIght now it’s Ira Glass, Sam Beam, David Foster Wallace.

9. Luke on July 2nd, 2011 at 9:16 pm

   That feels very lowbrow in comparison.

10. Daryl Scroggins on July 2nd, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Rick, Oh Rick, you lovely man. Your thought here is overwhelming. When I think of kindness and love, empathy and care, you rise in my mind as a model of those qualities as they should be found in all of us.

11. Daryl Scroggins on July 2nd, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Wonderful choices, Luke. Each a splendid source of perception and power.

12. Deron Bauman on July 2nd, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Version One:

    Early Errol Morris, early Raymond Carver, Lee Friedlander.

13. Luke on July 3rd, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Should have said this before: I really like this question.

14. Ruhee on July 22nd, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    This is a great, great question. I’m late to discovering it, but I love it.

    My first instinct: Ada Lovelace, Paul Simon, Sonny Rollins. I don’t feel it’s perfect, but it’s all right.

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