A depressing correspondence

[sandwichcontrol]

Max:

Long time. Saw this and thought of more or less talentless hacks like you, hacking endlessly away, the sheer speed of their composition becoming the only thing keeping them from noticing how god-awful their prose is. I can think, honestly, of no worse way to compose a novel. Certainly it is important to get past certain types of stifling

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[realcream]

hey, maybe you should wait till YOU'VE won a Nobel Prize to start ragging on Bill.

[sandwichcontrol]

Point taken, although I think you made a bad choice in referring to Faulkner's Nobel Prize. He famously composed his acceptance speech on the plane and delivered it while visibly inebriated, and if that doesn't show a certain lack of restraint, I don't know what does.

(Of course, it's better than what Henry Bech did in the same situation.)

it's on!

[realcream]

it's true, no one could understand what the hell he was saying. but the next day, when everyone saw the print version, they were all blown away. so there.
on the other hand, I have no idea who Henry Bech is or what he did.