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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Short Stop Is the Best Position

I'm trying to think of that tobias wolf story where he's in the bank and it's getting robbed, a bullet in the brain. And his last moments where he's thinking about his childhood playing baseball. Do you think that'sest a or loss, or something else? It's a wonderful story. And i don't think that's nastalgia. I think it's just a precious memory. A, short stop is the best position the is. A, it's a beautiful life. Not so different from what wordsworth called spots of time. You know, virginia wolfe's fiction is full of moments like this,. Where it's almost as if time seems to

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