That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.
Don DeLilloMirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Don DeLilloMurray said, ยดI donยดt trust anybodyยดs nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. Itยดs a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.ยด
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