I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.
“So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The indark answered with wind.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
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