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Next up: How Kafakaesque was Kafka? Was Old Blood and Guts really bloody and gutsy? How Platonically lovely was Plato’s life? Did Oedipus actually have an Oedipus complex? Was Christ a Christian? Was Buddha a Buddhist? 
Did Henry Ford truly practice Fordism?
Was Julius Caesar born by Caesarean section? Did Jelly Roll Morton eat jelly rolls? Was Homer really homeless? All this and more in Part 2 of this series.

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