book one redone - Coldbacon

But as for reading, while the insights of great writers are as real as the sins
they’ve committed (and my god that’s enough), the truth is, even if you
did have time to read everything, you couldn’t possibly find adequate
copy for every conceivable situation. Not only that, but the writer must
have experienced it himself. Hemingway may have lived life so you don’t
have to, but most of your authors are merely reheating someone else’s
experience. And once it’s cooked, it ain’t raw anymore, and that’s
tempura. I learned that in a seven-hundred-page novelette Memoirs of an
American Poet in Japan’s Wife.
Face it, you’re going to have to get some of your knowledge from other
people, ordinary, everyday people. That said, you mustn’t overdo it. If
you overdo it, your inbox just gets cluttered. Fortunately, Hotmail will
start deleting messages for you.
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