![]() We were both raised in very religious homes: I as a Christian, and he in the Baha’i faith.įrom this odd cultural stew emerged Wilson’s offbeat comedy, made famous by the character Dwight Schrute in the hit absurdist television comedy The Office. We were both serious classical musicians, specializing in maligned instruments-he played the bassoon I played the French horn. We both had parents who were professional artists. ![]() Over lunch in Boston in April, we discovered that we had weirdly parallel lives: With less than two years separating us in age, we grew up a few miles apart in lower-middle-class Seattle neighborhoods. That last version of Seattle is the soil from which the actor Rainn Wilson sprang-as did I. ![]() In the ’60s and ’70s, it was a remote, rainy city dominated by Boeing, albeit with a vital arts community and a lot of spiritual seekers. In the 1990s, it was a cool destination for countercultural 20-somethings who liked grunge rock. Today, it is known for Amazon, Microsoft, fancy coffee, and enormous fortunes. Seattle has gone through several big transformations in the past few decades. ![]() Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. ![]()
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