Watching the damned thing was ill advised - that Hemingway documentary on PBS. Writers should be read not known. Their personhood, except for those parts revealed in their writing, should remain a mystery to the reader and to the world. Let it be something the reader wonders about but never witnesses firsthand. Up close and scrutinized, they cannot help but disappoint.
Salinger, anonymous in the grocery store.
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