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“so that’s an image of my childhood: the workers hunched over in the middle, a line of policemen with their billy clubs and pistols in the back, and the priests in the front pontificating”
it’s so cute when he gets all choked up at 00:38:00 talking about bookshops
ah yea this is the interview where he says it (01:26:00): “i rewrote [the book] every year [for five years]. it went from 600 pages to 98 pages in the last two rounds of revision, and i decided i had to publish it or else it might stop existing”
2 replies01:40:00 “i tried so hard not to be long winded and redundant that i produced this thing that even people of good will and were friends of mine completely missed my point. so i’ve become more prolix; i’ve become a blabbermouth and endlessly repeat myself to get through to people.”