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A memory of the nineteen nineties (1997)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100329052253/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/teller.htm
47•fanf2•15h ago

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jdironman•14h ago
This was a delightful read. There's something magical about people coming together to make something happen and experience it together...

Maybe it was Soames, or maybe it was Soames spirit who convinced the actor specifically to do this in the first place. we may never know. All in good fun.

luotuoshangdui•14h ago
The page looks quite modern for a 1997 website.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•13h ago
This capture was taken in 2010 it seems. Maybe the Atlantic went back and touched up their archives
01HNNWZ0MV43FF•14h ago
Teller wrote this?! No wonder I loved it.
ThinkingGuy•13h ago
For more background, see this Esquire Magazine interview with Teller from 2010

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a15810/tell...

(Scroll down to the paragraph that begins "When Teller was in high school")

dehrmann•11h ago
Teller, as in Penn and Teller.
ChrisArchitect•13h ago
Non archive link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/a-memor...
ViktorRay•10h ago
More information on this interesting event can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Soames

Fascinating.

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