I don't see any fuzzy thinking from Sendak here -- because there's two
verifiable facts here:
1. He often gets called "a mere illustrator" (and I just called him one
myself)
2. "a mere ANYTHING" is a derogatory term - regardless of what it means to
those who use it.
You wouldn't want to be called a mere story teller, or mere retired publisher,
or mere nominalist -- would you ?
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"It is not that Mr. Sendak is angry that people question Rockwell's talent;
rather, he fears that he has not risen above the 'mere illustrator' label
himself." Despite the ambiguous phrasing, his regret is about what he feels
he
"IS", rather than being simply tagged with a vacuous label. He believes he
belongs
to the category of "mere illustrators". Again we see the perniciousness of
the not-thought-through, deluded belief in actual "real", "ontic" categories.
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