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responsibility – it carried to the nth degree every de-mand and caprice the others had. That’s why it was re-quired being as squeaky-clean as a shop owner keeps his window display.

And rightfully so, because the publisher, briefly glanc-ing over his debut novel, would not hesitate one bit to throw it in the bin if it was “full of holes” from the very first paragraph. Yet, on the contrary, especially if the paragraph got a “look at that!” out of him, it would so sweeten him that he wouldn’t be able to resist read-ing the rest of it immediately.

The aim, in other words, was to grab the publisher’s attention, in the same way that someone might, thanks to a pickup line, attract that of the snooty stranger he had a crush on. And not because, in the crucial mo-ment of addressing it to her, as inventive as it may be, she’s stunned by his repulsive breath.

A very thorough combing of the first paragraph, and a bit of brushing and gargling with a mouthwash solu-tion were therefore essential before he sent his nov-el out into the world. It wasn’t, however, as if it was destined to be the first one up. That it happened to be so was due to the violent ousting of its predeces-sor, which was deemed incorrigible and to have bitten

- What if it’s in pdf format?

- Metaphorically speaking, give me a break.

- Yeah, right. As if the publisher doesn’t have better things to do than read whatever rubbish people send. He/she is probably going to pass it over to one of the junior employees.

- Well, all right. It’s not being sent to Penguin Random House though, is it?

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the biscuit. Not only did that one carry with it like a scourge the stigma, the adolescent acne and complex-es of a newly fledged