“The big question remains the same: will I become totally irrelevant before I become completely useless, or vice versa?” asks this kid doing the work, who has had a posthumous reputation since he was 25 or so
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I was 35 or 36 when I realized I had failed as a writer, that I would never be a writer, that I had done what I could with what I had. It was an odd realization, to be sure, because what would success have looked like?
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That's a great question. I don't know! I suppose I didn't ever know.
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I guess I failed at figuring that out...but I'm not sure anyone ever assigned me that task, nor did I assume it myself
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Yeah, I stay busy. Lately my full-time job has been wearing me down, and I'm grappling with the possibility that I'm simply out of ideas -- that I exhausted my storehouse of ready-made concept in shorter pieces, and now lack the time to fully report new big ones.
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I think all writers regardless of success are enjoying "posthumous" reputations while alive...none of them are as well known as we once might have thought they were.
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