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Where in their essays  do Sedaris and other first person writers establish their

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peculiarities?
Text Box: Where in their essays do Sedaris and other first person writers establish their age sex ethnic/religious background class region qirks foibles strengths peculiarities? Find an example of:

Dostoevsky' s "rants"

Céline's narrator's "rants"

Mayakovski's "At the Top of my Voice"

William Hazlitt's "passion"

James Baldwin's "passion"

Joan Didion's "whining" (with self-aware humor).

George Orwell's "sanity"

Mark Twain's "crustiness"

EB White's "thoughtfulness"

Dr. Johnson's "assured pronouncements"

Edmund Wilson's "objective distance"

Lionel Trilling's "intellectual distance"