Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer
Twenty years after Gov. Mario M. Cuomo electrified the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco with his ``A Tale of Two Cities'' keynote speech, he's sitting out this year's gathering in Boston.
He's just too busy, the most maddeningly philosophical and intellectual politician of his generation insists.
He's got a new book on Lincoln to promote and a big legal case to prepare for, although one detects a twinge of wistfulness over being eclipsed as one of the Democratic Party's brightest stars.
Not that Cuomo doesn't find homages to himself hidden between the lines of the Kerry-Edwards campaign that bypassed him in Beantown.
``I know Kerry's people have my book,'' Cuomo says. ``And I know his writers are reading it, which is good, because Kerry even looks like Lincoln and he could get a lot out of this book. And Edwards has been giving a speech that's very much like my 1984 `Tale of Two Cities' speech, which is a tale of two Americas in his version.''
Being overshadowed is a complex feeling, he'll say, as are most matters for …
