This is the best way I was ever given a phone number. It will soon enough be a year since we decoded and untangled this, you. It has been fun, hasn’t it?
There is a fraught relationship between the people one cares for and how one writes, and between subjects and muses. At times, you may recognize that someone is overwhelmingly important to you if you cannot write well about them, only to them. On the other hand, this may merely reflect one’s creative limitations: one cannot gain literary ascendency over everything.
But one shouldn’t want to: better to have such friends than to be able to write about them. Life over art, one might say.
