I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. {Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.} I will say that having read the best and worst of novels for many years, which is, to remind you, part of a good devil's education, I know by now that not even a loyal reader can stay true to an author who is ready to leave his narrative for an apparently unrelated expedition.
( Norman Mailer )
[ The Castle in the Forest ]
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