The Purity of Nonfiction

I feel like there was sort of a legend around him when he was alive that he sort of embodied a kind of artistic purity that is rare to be found in these degraded times. He didn't mean any wrote a thousand page book that worked, right? I mean, it became a huge hit. That's pretty amazing. This is an, whatever you want to say about this book, it's a pure book in a sense of it's not compromising for the sake of compromise. It's extraordinarily well-written and closely printed. And yes, and with paragraphs that go on,  it doesn't even divide the paragraph. So I think that, I mean, the one thing I