There was a time when writers were stars and treated as such. They held rocknroll status like Kanye West and when they said something, even if it was silent it was an event. Sontag made thinking sexy. Charismatic, controversial, flawed and complex; so much about what she saw and how she saw it was emblematic of the twentieth century. Sontag is my personal hero, the kind that you hold on a pedestal from afar, the kind of idol you would be scared to meet in person!