Saturday, February 6, 2010

Neologism - Autohagiopic

A friend from the vaudeville scene was describing (Facebook once again) a film made by another performer. A hagiography is an uncritical biography (or, originally, biography of a saint), and Alistair Crowley apparently caled his own autobiography an autohagiography. The pic part comes from biopic, because the work in question is a film. I rather hope this term might take off, despite its complicated make up.

2 comments:

  1. Is it possible to consider some of the "personal" stories of our popular storytellers, autohagiographic?

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  2. Not sure about liftoff, but it makes a good story anyway. Thanks!

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