OVERSHOOTING
'Novels arise out of the
shortcomings of history,'
Novalis said, and why never
to believe him I could never
get. Characters in novels
never die either - author's
prerogative and all that.
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None of this has ever bothered
me much. Except maybe in an
Irish bar, where they like to talk.
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About such things as this I'm
never privy. I sit there while
they talk about Samuel Beckett or
James Joyce, or Flann O'Connor
or whoever's the choice of their
day. I figure, History is full of
'destruction and death,' but
characters can live forever,
and forever starts today?
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