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Saturday, September 10, 2005

The Ultimate Source of Bad Advice

Thomas Pynchon says, in the introduction to 'Slow Learner,' that there are some rough passages in that collection of early shorts. To wit: "I was operating on the motto 'Make it literary,' a piece of bad advice I made up all by myself and then took."

How much bad advice have I coined and obeyed? I reel...

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