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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
Page 59
“It’s all right. But, I think you can get more impact if you open it with the shooting and do the reasoning in retrospect.”
“It’s only a matter of a page or two.”
“That makes it easy to change. I wouldn’t have said anything other than ‘good idea’ except that some of the assholes today got a thing about chronology. In some circles it’s like if you tell the story in sequence, there’s automatically something deficient. Personally, I don’t give a flying fuck about those circles, but in this case it’s so short it’s easy to fix. More importantly, everyone needs a quick fix. To start them out with an unexplained bullet up somebody’s ass gets their attention.”
“You’re thinking mass market. This is going to be off-off Broadway. You know, like in somebody’s loft with about thirty attending; and each of them thinks that they are the coolest, most sophisticated thing alive.”
“Since the internet the markets are merging, right?”
“Some say so. Some say the opposite. Franzen’s been calling a marginalization for more than a decade.”
“He’s also pronounced the death of the novel, and then proceeds to write more of them.”