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rt of Thing. I did That Sort of Thing enthusiastically (and sometimes
with Jo's enthusiastic connivanceif I came to a particularly problematic plot crossroads)and at
some point around the time of George Bush's electionour accountant told us we were millionaires.
We weren't rich enough to own a jet (Grisham) or a pro football team (Clancy)but by the
standards of DerryMainewe were quite rolling in it. We made love thousands of timessaw
thousands of moviesread thousands of books (Jo storing hers under her side of the bed at the end
of the daymore often than not). And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how
short the time was.
More than once I wondered if breaking the ritual is what led to the writer's block. In the daytimeI
could dismiss this as supernatural twaddle but at night that was harder to do. At night your thoughts
have an unpleasant way of slipping their collars and running free. And if you've spent most of your
adult life making fictionsI'm sure those collars are even looser and the dogs less eager to wear
them. Was it Shaw or Oscar Wilde who said a writer was a man who had taught his mind to
misbehave?
And is it really so far-fetched to think that breaking the ritual might have played a part in my
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awed by his agony
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