VLVL2 work (Pynchon's)

[pynchonoid]

"One out of several humiliating features about writing
fiction for a living is that here after all is just
about everybody else, all along the capitalist
spectrum from piano movers to systems analysts,
cheerfully selling their bodies or body parts
according to time-honored custom and usage, while it's
only writers, out at the fringes of the entertainment
sector, wretched and despised, who are obliged, more
intimately and painfully, actually to sell their
dreams, yes dreams these days you'll find are every
bit as commoditized as any pork bellies there on the
financial page. To be upbeat about it, though, in most
cases it doesn't present much moral problem since
dreams seldom make it through into print with anything
like the original production values anyway. Even if
you do good recovery learning to write legibly in the
dark and so forth, there's still the matter of getting
it down in words that can bring back even a little of
the clarity and sweep, the intensity of emotion, the
transcendent weirdness of the primary experience. So
it's a safe bet that most writers' dreams, maybe even
including the best ones, manage to stay untranslated
and private after all."
-Thomas Pynchon, "Introduction to The Writings of
Donald Barthelme"

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