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“Even, even, even! Understand this, once and for all: describing a situation is one thing, adopting it is an-other, the writer is one thing and another his charac-ters whom in crafting that way, means he surpasses them and sees them more with compassion, almost
In the logic of ‘keep talking, some of it will remain’, I will allow you to invoke the same line of defence as in the interview.
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pity, than with admiration. Another aspect is also his incarnations which have weaselled their way into his books somewhere.”
“Then maybe, even worse, and personally I’m leaning toward this particular hypothesis: Is he refusing any publicity because he himself rates his works as below average?”
“And still publishes them? Why?”
“He must seek a second opinion, for better or for worse. Besides, he probably thought, you never know, someone might take the bait.”
“Gosh! We’ve not only taken the bait; we’ve fallen right into it face first.”
“Anyway, how do you imagine him to be?”
“It’s strange, but, with every writer, writing and ap-pearance go together hand in hand. One affects, al-most imposes on, the other.”
“It’s almost as though you’re telling me that you would identify him in the same way the victim iden-tifies the perpetrator out of twenty or so ugly mugs at the police precinct, behind a glass screen.”
“Unquestionably.”
+ like Hitchcock in his films.
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“Do you completely rule out the possibility that he might be, I don’t know, pot-bellied, bald, a hunch-back, bow-legged, a cheapskate and an old crock?”
“But it ceases to matter. His work acts as the Pool of Siloam and purifies all of his defects, it rechristens them, it makes them cherishable.”
“Very nice. And now the crucial million-dollar ques-tion: If I were
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