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>worked his ass off to write it. That in the likely occa-sion where the first page left them dispassionate, they would demonstrate some elementary patience just in case they came to feel more passionate afterward. That, even if they reached page 10 and still could not understand what he was driving at, they would show some understanding.

That they would not read it surfing the internet every now and again, or rather that they would not surf the internet, reading him once in a blue moon.

That he would not be their casual snack to pass the time.

That, unless they could not do otherwise, they wouldn’t read him in order to fall asleep or after arguing with

36 Blitzkreig: lightning war (original form in German).

+ and you only do a blitzkrieg once.

Put it the other way around: not that he had worked his ass off to write it, screw that, but at least that it was pivotal.

You’re asking for the moon now.

Yeah, rest assured…

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their wife, eating till they couldn’t breathe anymore or reading Proust, when sitting comfortably on the toilet seat, or lounging on a beach bed.

And even if they did, say, that at least they did it, not selectively but everywhere, so as to even out.

Screw it, he would send it.

You forgot the most important thing: Screw it, he would send it, even if he couldn’t bear the thought, so joined at the hip they had become, of either parting with it, or knuckling down for a new novel.

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Chapter 22

“So, in the end, Mr Panourgias, is what you are doing ‘literature’(logotechnia)?”

“I’m afraid not. Because, I am neither uttering some-thing, nor practising some form of art37. Now, if apart from writing, I am also “authoring”, it is as lost to me as it is to an actor (ethopoios) if, by acting, she is also creating ethos38. In the end, what in our language is considered to be a unique asset, to put, that is, two words together, see logos+texhne, neither allowing for the other to breathe freely –, where the rest of them get away with a single one, see literature, sets us up for a fall. How? By having us professing to something that we never claimed in the first place.”

“Fine, let me put it differently, then. Might Look at that be a novel (mythhistorima)?”

“Novel, here we go again. Enough,

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