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Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the … - Jonathan Lethem
" "Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detective stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful portentous quality. Better to have them gone.
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About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
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Harry Conklin
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.
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