Odom is my favorite Burr hands down, but diary!Burr, just from the excerpts I've read, is strangely hilarious and makes me want to read all his diaries. I don't think that Burr has ever been immortalized in fiction (but SOMEONE SHOULD) - that is about the opposite of a Gothic hero, so those books can't be it - but it is so hard to square the weirdo setting himself on fire and obsessing about a zit on his nose with the man who shot Hamilton and nearly got elected President, in an age where people had to campaign in person without handlers. I mean. How the hell did he come across?
It's also hard to square with him apparently being incredibly handsome and very successful with women. I mean, anyone can be weird and awkward AND super good-looking and socially adept in certain circumstances but one rarely sees that combination in fiction. I'm sure the fact that he treated woman like human beings helped, but you can't notice that until you've had a conversation, which is hard when your first sight is of some dude stroking a bust of the man he killed or attacking someone with an umbrella. And it can't just be how he felt inside vs. how he came across, because a lot of the weird stuff was stuff he actually did in public.
And that's not even getting into the Emperor of Mexico thing.
ETA: It's hard to imagine that he DID hope people to read them… But then again, he was so weird that maybe?
ETA 2: I realize now that I have also obsessed about a zit on my nose, fallen down the stairs, whomped my head on the same thing twice in quick succession, and set my pants on fire. So obviously I am the reincarnation of Aaron Burr those are totally normal things. At least I didn't try to make myself Empress of Mexico? But if dueling was still legal, I would probably not have made it to twenty.
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Date: 2016-03-02 02:09 am (UTC)It's also hard to square with him apparently being incredibly handsome and very successful with women. I mean, anyone can be weird and awkward AND super good-looking and socially adept in certain circumstances but one rarely sees that combination in fiction. I'm sure the fact that he treated woman like human beings helped, but you can't notice that until you've had a conversation, which is hard when your first sight is of some dude stroking a bust of the man he killed or attacking someone with an umbrella. And it can't just be how he felt inside vs. how he came across, because a lot of the weird stuff was stuff he actually did in public.
And that's not even getting into the Emperor of Mexico thing.
ETA: It's hard to imagine that he DID hope people to read them… But then again, he was so weird that maybe?
ETA 2: I realize now that I have also obsessed about a zit on my nose, fallen down the stairs, whomped my head on the same thing twice in quick succession, and set my pants on fire. So obviously
I am the reincarnation of Aaron Burrthose are totally normal things. At least I didn't try to make myself Empress of Mexico? But if dueling was still legal, I would probably not have made it to twenty.