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People Tend To Think Of Their Lives As Having A Dramatic Arc, Because They Read Too Much Fiction.

It Could Be Argued That Every Age Gets The Comfort Savagery Writer It Deserves.

There Is Something Mysteriously Powerful That Can Happen When Young, Inchoate Minds Come Into Contact With Older And More Worldly Ones In A Spirit Of Intellectual And Creative Endeavour - If I Believed In Progress, I Suppose That's What I'd Call It.

Like All Right-listening Folk, I Am An Implacable Enemy Of All Muzak.

What Fiction Offers Us Is An Intimacy Shorn Of The Messy Contingencies Of Human Existence - Gender, Race, Class Or Age. Those Moments Of Transcendence When We Exclaim "you Know Exactly What I Mean!" Depend For Much Of Their Force On The Anonymous Character Of The Intimacy Between Writer And Reader.