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Well, there are sort of mythical/legendary archetypes from the past- the bard, the warrior/poet, the benevolent thief, etc, and as Scott Thompson from "The Kids in the Hall" once said, "One day, the character of the gay waiter will be a folk hero."
I imagine there are a lot more local folk heroes, you know, neighborhood folk heroes, college campus folk heroes. We used to have a young man at my college called "Crazy Leo" who wore a kilt all the time, and had raised his bedframe to its highest setting, taken off the mattress and built a fort underneath. I don't know if they still talk about him, but damned if they shouldn't.
Who are the modern Robin Hoods? I'm not really sure. I think that maybe, somewhere, there's a freelance accountant who charges rich people ridiculous amounts of money to do their taxes, but then manages to find every tax they ought to pay, and then does poor peoples' taxes, and finds them insane deductions that the IRS owes them, and then rides off into the night. I do not know that accountant's name, but he or she should have hir praises sung through the centuries. |
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