The Scale Model

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In a story, what you're doing as you put somebody down a certain way is kind of going, ok, is there nything else you want to say? And then it'll say something. So i think in real life you say, oh, i know you based on your appearance or your politics or whatever. And then just mechaniclyand well, maybe i don't. I understand, i understand you through my own cliches.

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”

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