This poem by Emily Dickenson reminds me a lot of Clark, so I thought I'd share it:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
by Emily Dickenson

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Joy,
Lynn

Emily Dickenson was certainly a woman before her time. That poem describes our current "everyone needs to know about me" culture very well. From what I've seen, fame is obtrusive, demoralizing, demeaning, and overrated. I'm proud to be anonymous nobody walking around. How about you?

Virginia wrote:
Then there's a pair of us - Don't tell!

Joy,
Nemo

This reminds me of when I had to read Great Expectations for a Victorian Studies class and I got to thinking how "Bunburying" sounded so much like being Superman. I'll have to find my concept notes on this somewhere.

I thought "Bunburying" came from Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"?

Joy,
Lynn

You're right. How in the world I mis-remembered that, I don't know (I read both in high school and again for a college class). They're completely COMPLETELY different stories.