The writer Elizabeth Wurtzel got to know Franzen and Wallace in the mid-nineties. “Do you know how there’s some people that when it’s raining it doesn’t rain on them?” Wurtzel says. “On a sunny day it would be raining on Jon Franzen.
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You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!
Will, The Subtle Knife, p. 322
Jay Gatsby and Becky Sharp would live in dread of a shrewdly executed Google search.