They are interesting, admired or even loved on the basis of stuff they have created, that is external to them. This would never happen with the writers and intellectuals who usually grace this august stage. A collective gasp and we were on our feet – not as an expression of admiration, more a recoil from sheer physical and psychic proximity. His mentor, Cus D'Amato, had assured the 15-year-old Tyson that one day, when he entered a room, "people will stand up and give you an ovation". N othing in his subsequent exchanges with Paul Holdengräber could quite live up to the moment when Mike Tyson took to the stage last month at Madison Square Garden – sorry, I mean the New York Public Library.
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